Witchcraft by William Seabrook

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Niagara Books is proud to offer this full-Moroccan leather first edition of Witchcraft: Its power in the world today, by William Buehler Seabrook, published in 1940 by Harcourt, Brace and Company of New York.

This octavo book was rebound in full Moroccan leather and a scarlet ribbon bookmarker was sewn into the binding.  Overall the book is in very good - condition and does not have a dust jacket.  There are four raised ribs and the title, author and designs are gilt.  All four corners and page edges are free from bumps and rubs.  The binding is tight and all text block is and fly-leaves are all intact and with the exception of their sunned appearance and minor foxing all pages are generally free from writing or other markings.  The endpapers are crafted of a black vinyl resembling wood grain.  The volume measures 8 7/8 x 6 x 1 3/4 and has 387 pages.

Please note, although I cannot smell smoke or mustiness in this book, I cannot guarantee that this book came from a smoke or pet free home.

About the Book

According to Harcourt, Brace, and Company in their promotion of the book:

William Seabrook addresses this book to rational people only. It consists of the candid adventures of a great reporter among living witches in the world today. It is one man’s testimony to the existence and the limitations of witchcraft now. It is the low-down on actual sorcery (Black Magic and White Magic too) by one who confesses not merely to have witnessed the stuff, but to have been a practitioner himself, for both good and evil.

In his earlier great books of travel and adventure, Seabrook left many questions concerning witchcraft wide open, and suppressed many episodes because their treatment would have seemed out of place. But these things cannot stay suppressed: the dirty doings of modern witches, white and black; the current sorcerers, incantations, human vampires on the Riviera; panther men in Africa and Satanists in Paris; Devil worshipers in New York; werewolves in Washington Square -- take these things how you will, there are observed experiences which remain intractable, and there are stories which, for fascination and for candor, beat anything that you have ever read.

About the Author

According to Wikipedia:

William Buehler Seabrook (February 22, 1884 – September 20, 1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveler, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland. He began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia. He later became a partner in an advertising agency in Atlanta.

In 1915 he joined the French Army and served in World War I. He was gassed at Verdun in 1916, and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.

The following year he took up the post of reporter for The New York Times, and soon became an itinerant. Besides his books, Seabrook had articles published in popular magazines including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest and Vanity Fair.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, New York, New York

Date:           1940

Format:     Full Leather - Moroccan Leather

Price:         Sold

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