Gardner gerald b scire (5 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Stapled pamphlet. Text is laid out in triple columns, but remains readable if rather crammed onto the page.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pentacle, 1994. Slim oversize paperback stapled pamphlet. 76pp. Slight creasing to covers, minor damage to base of front cover, sticker to back cover. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Citadel Press, New York. 1955. 163 pages with index. First American Edition stated, first printing. Book is very fine. Binding and hinges are sound. Pages and endpapers are clean. Red cloth boards are bright and clean with four sharp corners; stamped in black titles on spine. Original DJ with $4.00 price intact on flap. DJ is about near fine with minor evidence of shelf-rubbing at crown; minimal soiling to rear of DJ. This is the seminal text of the English Wiccan, and Father of Wicca, Gerald Gardner, who was instrumental in popularizing the Pagan religion of Wicca, and writing some of its definitive religious texts. He is the namesake of Gardnerian Wicca; and the founding member of the Bricket Wood coven, where he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain, into Australia and America, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Gardner also became director of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man, which he ran until his death, in 1964. An important, first American edition, first printing. Rare in fine condition; housed in its original VG++ DJ.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition. Octavo, 158 pp. + index. A fine copy In a very lightly worn DJ, unclipped, now in mylar. Text is clean. An important work for several movements of 20th century witchcraft. Witchcraft Today recounts Gardner's thoughts on the history and practices of the theoretical witch-cult, and his claim to have met practising witches in 1930s England. It is based on the discredited theory that persecuted witches had actually been followers of a surviving pagan religion. It also deals with his theory that the Knights Templar had practised the religion, and that the belief in faeries in ancient, mediaeval and early modern Europe is due to a secretive pygmy race that lived alongside humans. Witchcraft Today is one of the foundational texts for the religion of Wicca, along with Gardner's second book on the subject, 1959's The Meaning of Witchcraft (Wikipedia).…

Jacket Condition: . 1st Edition 12.5 x 19 cm black cloth with silver stamped titles to the spine. Pictorial endpapers, 352[1]pp with original unclipped jacket priced at 10/6. The boards are clean with a slight, difficult to see, darkening on the rear panel corresponding with an area of faint rippling on the dust jacket. The corners are firm and sharp. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a hint of spotting on the top edge. The dust jacket is clean and bright and without fading to the spine but with a little dust staining to the white rear panel and some rippling for 3cm along the spine side of the rear panel. There is rubbing to the spine tips and corners with a little surface abrasion and minimal loss to the corners and at the foot of the spine. There is a thin 0.5 x 2 cm chip at the top of the rear joint. All in all an excellent 1st edition copy of this tale of medieval magic from the "Father of Modern Witchcraft". Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.…