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Lot 290

Old Conjuring Books: A Bibliographical and Historical Study with a Supplementary Check-List.

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Hall, Trevor. Old Conjuring Books: A Bibliographical and Historical Study with a Supplementary Check-List. London: Duckworth, 1972. Number 3 of 7 specially-bound copies “for the author and his friends,” inscribed and signed “For my old pal Frank Beckwith/with thanks for much help/Trevor Hall 30 November 1972”. Maroon quarter leather with gilt lettering. 8vo. 228 pages. With a handwritten errata slip in Hall’s hand and a finely printed invitation and RSVP card to Beckwith for Hall’s lecture at Leeds, “Thomas Ady’s A Candle in the Dark: An Exercise in Seventeenth Century Bibliography.” Spine rubbed, otherwise fine.

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