Folklore And The Occult from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Edward Moxon & Co. 1864. Small 8vo. viii, 261 pp. Full green morocco with gilt borders and decoration to boards and spine; all edges gilt. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Ink inscription to FFEP dated 1865. Spotting to endpapers and prelims, occasionally inside but generally internally clean. A cycle of twelve narrative poems retelling the legend of… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton 1993. Tall 8vo. First edition. 277 pp. Black hardback in illustrated dust jacket (not price clipped). Some foxing to top-edge, clean internally. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1993.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1905. Square 8vo. xii., 140 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to board and spine. Some rubbing and minor bumping to extremities. . Clean internally. With illustrations by Emma Carlsund. . Very Good. Cloth. 1905.

London: Zodiac House Publications 1976. Large 8vo. Limited edition, no. 228 of 250 copies. vii, 108 pp. Paperback with publisher's decorative wraps. A few marks to cover and edges of pages, otherwise internally clean. A collection of articles on the mysticism of Glastonbury, generously illustrated with maps, drawings, diagrams and original art work. . Very Good. Laminated Paper Covers. Limited… Read more about this item

Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press 1998. 8vo.Illustrated. 48 pp., Hardover with jacket. Some marks to the jacket and rubbing to the edges. Internally fresh and bright, illustrated through out by Mary Fedden. 9781900624213 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1998.

Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press 1999. 8vo.Illustrated. 48 pp. Hardcover with colour illustrated jacket. Short tear to the head of jacket spine. Minimal wear to board extremities. Internally fresh and bright, illustrated through out by Mary Fedden. 9781900624213 . Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1998.

London: Philip Allan & Co. 1924. 8vo. First edition. xii, 218, [1] pp. 23 illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt Eye of Horus to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Deckle fore-edge. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing scattered throughout. Plates complete. Two books presented together as single volume, the first titled Cheiromancy and the… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1972. 8vo.Review Copy. First UK edition. 412 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket and spotting to book edges, though internally clean. Jacket clipped, though price remains. Sanders went undercover in a number of guises to build this portrait of Manson and his cult following. Includes the Sunday Times review as insert as well as… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. 1896. Large 8vo. First edition. 303 pp. Maroon cloth with embossed lines and gilt device to front board, gilt ruling and lettering to spine. Wear to spine ends, rubbing to boards and corners. Uncut pages, clean condition internally. Light foxing to edges of pages. Contains frontspiece, in-text black-and-white illustrations of sketches by the author, and a… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Roberts; and sold by J. Brotherton [etc.] 1723 - 1738. 12mo. 3 volumes. First two volumes published in 1723, with the third volume being the second edition of 1738. x, 288; xv, 266; xvii, 264 pp. Illustrated with numerous copper plates. Red full straight-grained morocco with gilt decoration to boards and gilt lettering and devices to… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1921. 8vo.Illustrated. xiv, 170 pp & 63 plates. Half plum morocco over purple cloth boards, with gilt lettering and ruling to spine and boards and a stamp to the front board. Endpapers marbled. With in-text illustrations and plates to the rear of binding. Some light sunning and light rubbing to corners. An ex-library copy, with library… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000. 8vo. 411 pp. Black hardback in pictorial jacket. Small scuff to front board. Creasing to panel extremities. Internally fresh and bright. From the blurb: 'This new dictionary shows the variety and distinctive features of tradtiions and beliefs throughout England, as well as indicating links with British and European patterns... It ranges from the bizarre to… Read more about this item

London: H. S. Nichols & Co. 1894. Large 8vo. In 12 volumes complete. Bound in original, gilt decorated, black cloth with top edge gilt. Gilt fresh and bright with slight bumping to extremities, light wear in a few cases. Light spotting to some edges. Published in 1894 three years before the illustrated edition and shortly after Lady Burton edition, the… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company 1907. 8vo. First edition. xii, 312, [8 plates] pp. Light green cloth with gilt lettering and debossed decorative design. Minor creasing and wear to spine ends, some foxing to prelims and occasionally throughout. Inscription to paste-down. A nice little book debunking a wide range of fallacious ideas- on history, the law, the human body, food, the… Read more about this item

New York: Stonehill Publishing Company 1978. 4to. Second printing. xv, 417 pp. Colour illustrated paper covers. A few slight dents around covers, but generally externally clean. Clean and bright inside. Extensively illustrated with black & white photographs, cartoons, taxonomical pictures, etc., and several colour illustrations as well. A thoroughgoing book on all things drugs, documenting their social history, chemistry, effects,… Read more about this item

London: George .G. Harrap & Company 1912. 8vo. xxix, 375 pp., Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and board. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to spine and boards, with fading to former. Foxing to endpapers and prelims and very light cases throughout. Illustrated with black and white plates by Byam Shaw and others. Plates complete. . Good. Gilt… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton 1911. 8vo. Unpaginated. Gilt decorated green cloth with tipped on colour illustration to front board with elaborate gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and slight wear to the joints, corners and spine ends and a few marks to rear board. Boards are minorly warped, with yellowing to the prelims, ink name to half-title, occasional spots. Illustrated by… Read more about this item

Liverpool: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. for Lewis's, Ltd. c. 1930s. 8vo. 256 pp. Colour illustrated cloth boards. Slight marks and fading to boards, with minor wear to the extremities. The head of the spine has been repaired with glue. Foxing throughout. Illustrated by Monroe S. Orr, in colour and black & white. A selection of fairy tales from… Read more about this item

River Falls, Wisconsin: Hazel Hills Corporation 1969. Large 8vo. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 4 volumes bound in 2. [xiii], xiv, 13-227, 300; [vi], xvi, 7-276, 368 pp. Black hardbacks with gilt lettering to spine in pictorial jackets, not price clipped, within a gold card slipcase. Mark to slipcase, minor split to one seam but still firm. Jacket spine slightly… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton N.d. [1924]. 4to. First Edition. 197 pp. Publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated red cloth decorated endpapers. Slight fading to spine and bumping to extremities. Minor yellowing to pages but otherwise internally clean. Twelve tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards by Kay Nielsen. Head and tail-pieces, decorative borders and full-page b&w illustrations by Nielsen. Gilt cover bright and fresh.… Read more about this item