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LOT 136

Lot 136

Eleven Volumes on Witchcraft and the Occult, early 20th centuy

Eleven Volumes on Witchcraft and the Occult, early 20th centuy
Lot 136 Details
Eleven Volumes on Witchcraft and the Occult, early 20th centuy

Oliver Madox Hueffer
THE BOOK OF WITCHES
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1980

Philip W. Sergeant
WITCHES AND WARLOCKS
London, Hutchinson & So., 1936

W.H. Davenport Adams
WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIAN
London: Chatto & Windus, 1889

George Lyman Kittredge
WITCHCRAFT IN OLD AND NEW ENGLAND
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1929

William Seabrook*
WITCHCRAFT: ITS POWER IN THE WORLD TODAY
New York: Harcout, Brace and Co., 1940
*with author ALS

George Iincoln Burr
NARRATIVES OF THE WITHCRAFT CASES
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914

Elliot Rose
A RAZOR FOR A GOAT
Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1962

Esther Forbes
A MIRROR FOR WITCHES
London, William Heinemann, 1928

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF WITCHCRAFT IN SCOTLAND (2)
London: Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1884

Algernon Blackwood
THE WILLOWS AND OTHER QUEER TALES
London & Glasgow: Collins Press

Estimate $100-$150

Realised: $1,920
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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Provenance:

Bookplates: Ex Libris Zelma Lorie (Toronto)

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