Book Details + Condition: Alfred Knopf (New York). An increasingly hard-to-find First Edition, 1926. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout. 353 pages, with Bibliography and Index, and advertisements for other History of Civilization works to rear. A classic first edition from 1926 on witchcraft, sorcery, black magic, neuromancy, damnation, satanism and every kind of magic and occult written by a notable scholar in the field, Montague Summers. The work also features colorful, little-known anecdotes about witches, devils, and their arts — as well as numerous historical accounts of witch trials and the role of witches in literature. A clean and solid copy of a famous first edition, with firm binding; little wear to boards; and no markings to the interior.
