Search Results: Curiosities from Spafford Books

Toronto: The Musson Book Company NONE [NONE] 1970. (Mass market paperback) 248pp. Very good. 4to. Illustrated red card wraps. Internally clean and bright. The cover of this 1901 edition offers 'the greatest good to the greatest number', 'money refunded if goods are not satisfactory', '!9th Century experience', and '20th century ideas'. Inside, a lounge/couch was available for as low as $3.95. Cover has some packing tape applied to protect, not to mend; in very good condition. Catalogue 46 / Catalogue 47..

New York: Bounty Books / Crown Publishers Inc. NONE [NONE] 1969. (Mass market paperback) 1162+. Very good. 4to. Illustrated black card wraps. Reading crease to spine, titles bright. Internally clean, lightly age-toned. The 1902 edition had the cover price of 50 cents and bicycles were available for as low as $8.95. Cover has some packing tape applied to protect, not to mend; in very good condition..

Norcross, Georgia: A Scarlet Green Publication 1987, 1st edition, 1st printing. (Mass market paperback) 39, [1]. Fine. 4to. White printed card covers. Inscribed on the title page by the author. B&W photos, illus. "Nearly Unpublished" by David Ginn also available, $40 for both..

Montreal: Les Editions Lumen 1946, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) 216+. Good. Cover shaken..

Chicago, Illinois: Self Published NONE [NONE] 2014. (hardcover) 323+. Fine in fine dust jacket. 4to. The largest collection of work from Aronson, the American magician / lawyer best noted for the 'Aronson stack' and the trick of 'Shuffle-Bored'. Introduction by David H. Finkelstein. Includes sections on Techniques, On the Spot, Two-faced, Totals, Birthdays, Memorized Decks, Essen-Tricks, Predictions. Fine copy in fine dust jacket..

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press [0-262-08153-9] 1986. (hardcover) 287pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Describes the ideas and claims of Artificial Intelligence. Jacket shows wear at the upper edge and is lightly rubbed. There is a name penned in red to the front free end paper. Black and white portraits. Very good copy..

New York: Arno Press [0-405-06688-0] 1976. (Mass market paperback) unpaginated. Very good plus. 4to. In wraps..

Fresno, Ca: Hocus Pocus Magic Shop [no date]. (Mass market paperback) 323, +index. Fine. 4to. Coil bound, printed blue card covers. Filled with delightful adverts throughout. Illus..

Columbus, Ohio: Nelson Enterprises Publishers 1960. (Mass market paperback) 50pp. Near fine. 4to. Coil bound. Green card covers, lettering in black to top cover. Also writes as Robert A. Nelson, and Bob Nelson. .

New York: Bonanza Books [0-517-29306-4] 1979. (hardcover) 115pp. Good to very good in fair dust jacket. 4to. Red and blue cloth boards; lettering in blue to spine. Dust jacket worn; several closed tears at edges, all repaired on verso with tape; price clipped. Internally tight and clean. Profusely illustrated with sketches, adverts, and B&W photos..

London, U.K.: Spring Books, the Hamlyn Group Limited [no date]. (hardcover) 288pp. Very good in good dust jacket. Folio. DJ shows signs of wear at fore-edges, some colour-bleeding from the book to the inside. That said all information intact. Book is in good condition with just a tiny amout of the same colour bleeding as to the DJ to the lower fore-edge, else tight and clean..

New York, N.Y.: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc. [1-57912-228-0] 1999. (hardcover) 240pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. DJ is flawless. Book is clean, tight and bright throughout. Blue boards with gilt font. Sublime copy for those intrigued by oddities, curiosities, eccentricities and just plain bizarreness..

New York: Facts on File Publications [0-8160-1981-9] 1988, 1st Paperback Edition. (Mass market paperback) x, 372pp. Fine. 4to. The lightest possible wear to wrappers, else without blemish. Ports., B&W photos..

London, UK: Wieland & Co. NONE [NONE] 1911. (hardcover) xiv + 170 + vi + 124 + x (Advertisements). Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. VERY SCARCE. Bound in decorated paper boards; the upper cover has the Equinox Coat of Arms design. Brown cloth spine with printed paper title label. The spine is worn and faded, the title block lightly chipped, although there is only one letter (X) of the text absent; remarkably intact. The Equinox was the first important effort to publish and thereby make available the facts of occult science and to write about the subject from academic and scientific perspectives. This edition includes the contributions of Aleistar Crowley, long thought by many to have been the editor; Poems for Jane Cheron, the Scorpion, the Big Stick, and the Rites of Eleusis (Supplement) are included. The work of Ethel Archer, Francis Bendick, Martial Nay, Victor J.I. Neuburg, John Yarker, E Whineray also included.There is an unusual paste-down book plate to the inside front cover, and it is… Read More

Boston: Carter and Hendee NONE [NONE] 1831, 1st edition, rebound. (hardcover) 234 + 8pp. Fine, no dust jacket. 12mo. Rebound in brown leather, embossed front and rear, gilt title and date stamped to spine. Deckled edges. Light and minimal foxing, and faintly age-toned, as may be anticipated (more so on the first pages to the 'Contents' page and the last pages back to page 220). Early work on the occult. Chapters include: Ghosts and Apparitions, Power of the Imagination, Illusions, Imagination and Fear, Superstition, Witchcraft and Sorcery, Salem Witchcraft, Omens and Augeries, Medical Quackery. There is an inscription penned (small, delicate) to the title page, dated 1832. Overall, clean, solid, remarkably bright and well-maintained. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1831, by Carter and Hendee, in the District Court of Massachusetts. '1053'..

Rancho Cordova, Ca: Murphys Magic Supplies 2004. (Mass market paperback) 75pp. Fine. Short 8vo. White printed card wrappers, stapled. Signed by Sean Fields in black marker on the title page. B&W photos. Edited By Josh Nekrep. Photography by Carey Lauder..

London, UK: Collins [0 00 412246 1] 1987. (hardcover) 224pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 4to. Jacket is price clipped, shows light rubbing, with some light creasing, small tears to the lower rear panel. Black boards, silver title stamped to spine. There is a book platepasted to the front free endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight, bright, solid copy with colour, as well as black and white photographs. The stories of the world's best known diamonds, their histories, and their associated characters, be those owners, royalty, business people, bankers, brokers, smugglers, thieves, swindlers, and / or murderers..

Wreck Cove: Breton Books [1-895415-28-4] 1993, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) xi, 249pp. As new. A new selection of folktales collected by Creighton; edited by Michael Taft and Ronal Caplan..

Austin: University of Texas Press 1972. (Cloth) 559pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illus., tables. Publications of the American Folklore Society Volume 24, 1972..

London: Methuen & Co. 1908, 1st edition. (Cloth) 366pp. Very good plus. Frontispiece, illus..