Bowen (Marjorie) Black Magic.
£160
A Tale of the Rise and Fall of Antichrist
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926.
‘A New Edition’. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in dark green. Dust-jacket, priced at 3/6.
A rather grim but impressive supernatural tale, by an author known for her romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography. On its original publication in 1909 it even impressed Aleister Crowley… Scarce in a jacket from this period.
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Browning to endpapers and some spotting at beginning and end, ink name to front free endpaper; cloth very slightly sunned at edges; jacket worn at edges with loss.
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