Cloth slightly faded at head of spine; jacket chipped (and possibly crudely price-clipped) with some loss.
Jacket artwork by Edward Frederic.
Reginald, Science fiction and fantasy literature.
£195
New York, Bobbs Merrill, 1911..
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth blocked in white. Dust-jacket.
Scarce, Reginald-listed weird & supernatural title.
Out of stock
Cloth slightly faded at head of spine; jacket chipped (and possibly crudely price-clipped) with some loss.
Jacket artwork by Edward Frederic.
Reginald, Science fiction and fantasy literature.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Rider, 1915
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 6/- on spine.
Paraphrasing the book's preface....''From the abundant records and traditions dealing with the curious belief that certain men and women can transform themselves into animals, the author has collected a number of instances and examples which throw fresh light on the subject both from the point of view of folklore and occultism''
There are chapters on the ''Bush-Soul," on human souls in animal bodies, on animal dances, the "Were-Wolf Trials," on witches, on cat and cock phantoms, on the "Phantasmal Ghost" as well as bird-women.
The book is uncommon without a jacket, it is genuinely rare with one. A remarkable survival.
Rare in jacket.
Weird & Supernatural
25th impression.
London, Ernest Benn, 1931
A very rare example. There are no copies of this edition online let alone with a near fine wrapper.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Chatto & Windus, 1925. A collection of tales published posthumously, first in 1905. Includes The Body Snatcher, centred around the time of Burke & Hare's exploits.