THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL: THE HORNED GOD OF THE WEST
Book Details + Condition: Harcourt Brace and Company (New York). First US Edition, 1929. Hardcover. Large octavo. 172 pages. Original red cloth boards; black-and-white frontis and illustrations; index. A serious study of the development of ideas about the devil and the nature of evil, from ancient times through classical paganism to the modern day. Content includes: The Belief of the Stone Age Men, The Power of Magic, Magicians and Priests, The Horned God of the West, Witch God and the Devil, The Evolved Magician, Herne and His Kin, The Decline of the Devil, Magic Today. In very good condition: tight binding; rubbed corners; normal light shelf wear to boards; spine darkened with some bruising and rubbing to ends; foxing to first and last leaves including title page and frontis, with a bit of scattered light foxing throughout; text pages lightly toned but clean and unmarked.
