Search Results: Paranormal from Spafford Books

New York: St. Martin's Press NONE [NONE] 1973, Book Club Edition. (hardcover) 416pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. The only book of its kind on witchcraft, a history and a guide to the many byways of the craft, that was written by a practicing wiitch. Black and white drawings and photographs. Pages lightly rippled, perhaps from dampness; there is no odour. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve. Overall, very good copy..

New York: St. Martin's Press NONE [NONE] 1973, Book Club Edition. (hardcover) 416pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. The only book of its kind on witchcraft, a history and a guide to the many byways of the craft, that was written by a practicing wiitch. Black and white drawings and photographs. Pages lightly rippled, perhaps from dampness; there is no odour. Jacket protected in loose mylar sleeve. Overall, very good copy..

New York: J.W. Bouton 1875, 2nd edition. (Cloth) 98pp. Very good plus. Frontispiece, illus. Binding glazed, otherwise very good..

Montreal: Osiris Publications 1973, facsimile. (Mass market paperback) 31pp, [1]. Fine. 8vo. In original printed wraps, saddle-stapled. Lightest possible toning to wraps at extremities, else entirely unblemished. Bright and clean. Facsimile printing of the original monograph printed in Worcester in 1888; read before the American Antiquarian Society on April 25th, 1888. This facsimile edition limited to 100 numbered copies, of which this is number 97..

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press 978-1-57003-246-2 [978-1-57003-246-2] 1999. (hardcover) xviii, 148pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. One of the most highly regarded scholarly books written on witchcraft and neo-paganism in North America/ the author, a professor of sociology, participated for 10 years in an observation study of Neo-Pagans and Witches on the eastern seaboard of the USA. Includes 4 pages of black and white photographs. Fine / fine copy..

New York Oxford: Oxford University Press [0-19-503131-8] 1982. (hardcover) xiv, 543pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket in loose protective plastic sleeve. Black cloth, silver title stamped to spine. Biography, psychology, sociology, and history of witchcraft in early New England. Fine / Fine..

London: Sanders Phillips & Co., Ltd. at the Baynard Press [1938], presumed 1st. (hardcover) 479pp. Very good in good dust jacket. 8vo. Blue quarter-cloth over yellow paper boards; lettering and device in silver to top and bottom boards and spine. Boards lightly dirtied at extremities. Some waving to the cloth on the spine, most likely due to binder's glue quality. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping; closed tears at extremities; light soiling; NOT price-clipped, showing 5 / -net. Jacket in protective mylar. Erratum slip tipped-in at p.36. Perforated forms present and unmarred at pp.466-467. Internally clean. Square. Quite a scarce book, and exceedingly interesting. Explained as "the new conception of Christianity and of world religions (acceptable to this New Age) to be applied in practical form to every-day life as from this Year of Grace 1938." Care to feel like Alice did as she fell down the rabbit hole? Enough said..

New York: Bell Publishing Company [0-517-67944-2] 1989. (hardcover) xiv, [2], 471pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shoes light wear at edges, faint rubbing. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Black and white illustrations. Clean, crisp, tight, and bright..

London: MacMillan and Co. Limited 1913. (Cloth) 288pp. Very good plus. Blue cloth. T.e.g. Light wear..

London: Rider & Co. [no date]. (Cloth) 285pp. Very good. Frontispiece, illus. Binding lightly glazed..

New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1937. (hardcover) pp275pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. 8vo. Grey cloth boards, lettering in blue to spine and top board, small decoration in white to centre of spine and top board. Top edge coloured blue, foredge roughcut. Previous owner's elegant bookplate to frontpastedown, signature at head of ffep. Else clean. B&W photos..

Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. 1972, Book Club Edition. (hardcover) xx, 234pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Book Club Edition. Jacket shows light wear, with small, closed tears to the upper edge. Grey boards with red title to the spine. Clean and bright..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press 0-8020-67685 [0-8020-67685] 1989. (Mass market paperback) 257pp. As new. "This model historical monograph is an analysis of witchcraft in the western European culture complex from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries...."..

New York: DK Publishing, Inc. 0-7894-03-67-6 [0-7894-03-67-6] 1996, 3rd edition. (hardcover) 619, +notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Short 4to. Casebound. Lightest wear to dust jacket. Filled with a plethora of colour illustrations. Internally bright and clean, scarcely even opened. Edited By Tom Fraser. Illustrations by Danuta Mayer. Photography by Monique Le Luhandre..

New York, N.Y.: Fireside 978-0-671-67087-0 [978-0-671-67087-0] 1989. (Mass market paperback) 383pp. Near fine. Slight upward curl on front cover, otherwise clean and tight throughout..