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London, England: George Routledge & Sons, 1923. Reprint. Hardcover. Good. Dora Noyes. 16mo. Green cloth with embossed diagram of the hand to cover. Cover worn and stained, and book someone shaken (loosey-goosey) but all pages present. Article tipped in to final blanks.

London, England: J. Knox near Southampton-Street in the Strand, 1766. Second Edition, Corrected and Improved. Leather-bound. Good Plus. Quarto Second Edition, corrected and Improved. 4to. pp.xi,88. Full contemporary calf with worn gilt decorated spine, red leather title label. Several armorial bookplates, one of the Reverend Thomas Leman, Chancellor of Cloyne, who served in that capacity between 1796 and 1802, who, like author Rowlands, was himself a recognized authority. Bound with History of the Island of Anglesey, (1775) LACKS MAP. Twelve engraved plates, numbered correctly. First edition was published in 1723, this one much expanded upon, "corrected and improved". Final leaf contains an Errata sheet, and on the verso, advertisement for other books published by John Knox. Variant title: Observations on the Antiquities of the Island of Anglesey xi, [5], 357, [3] p., [1], XII leaves of plates :  ill., map ;  4 . ESTC citation T139796. Rowlands devoted himself to the investigation of stone… Read More

Oceanside, California: Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1954. Later printing. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Tan card covers with designs and Rosicrucian motifs to front cover Faint tobacco smell (Great for an aspiring mystic, who smokes!).

New York: Greenberg, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. 12mo, 7.4 in. x 5 in., pp. xxx, 5-100. Red cloth boards with black title to front and spine. Top corners nudged. Age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Rubbing and a few creases to edges of dustjacket. Open tear on bottom of dustjacket cover overlaps author's name; chip to top of spine. There are no pages 1-4, nor does it appear that there ever were; the interactive feature of the book seems unaffected by these "missing" pages. First published in 1919, "'The White-Magic Book' forms the basis of a fascinating party game in which you can tell the fortunes of your friends. Innumerable questions are given, and the answers are found in the mysticallly arranged table of signs, affording an infinaite variety of clues to the future. The questions are so devised that no matter what you want to discover, you will have an answer." (from the dustjacket).

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Maggie Jarvis. 12mo, 7.4 n. x 4.5 in. pp. 61. Illustrated with engravings in blue, red and black by Maggie Jarvis. Pictorial paper boards with white title to front and spine. Very light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to top/bottom of dustjacket spine; light sunning to dustjacket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. "For centuries witches have brewed potions and cast spells to work their magic: enchanting lovers, curing disease, harming enemies, even becoming invisible and flying. Here is a wide selection of their recipes drawn from the lore of witches throughout the world. Only experienced witches should attempt to perform any of these enchantments... " (from the Preface).