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  • Phillips, Jill M.
    WALFORD'S OAK.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Citadel Press, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel woven around a true story of murder, witchcraft and a hanging in England in 1797, a story with attracted poet Samuel Coleridge's attention (and whose musings form the basis of this novel.). ISBN: 0-8065-1159-1.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dj (dot on bottom edge, prev owner's name)

    Book ID: 16961
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  • WIFE OF THE GODS. by Quartey, Kwei
    Quartey, Kwei
    WIFE OF THE GODS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781400067596.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookseller's orange lines on bottom of textblock and front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 55373
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  • WIFE OF THE GODS. by Quartey, Kwei
    Quartey, Kwei
    WIFE OF THE GODS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likeable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 317 pp. ISBN: 9781400067596.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some light toning)

    Book ID: 58449
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  • WIFE OF THE GODS. by Quartey, Kwei
    Quartey, Kwei
    WIFE OF THE GODS.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Random House, (2010). SIGNED - An exceptionally good debut set in Ghana (where the author was raised), and introducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson. This novel makes very real the conflicts between traditional beliefs, including witchcraft and "modern" ways. Dawson is a likeable and very real protagonist, struggling not just with his job, but living with the knowledge that his young son has a defective heart. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes, glossary. x, 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0812979367.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 87875
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  • NDEMBU DIVINATION: Its' Symbolism and Techniques, Rhodes-Livingston Papers, Number 31. by [Rhodes-Livingstone Papers] Turner, V. W.
    [Rhodes-Livingstone Papers] Turner, V. W.
    NDEMBU DIVINATION: Its' Symbolism and Techniques, Rhodes-Livingston Papers, Number 31.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, (1961). First edition - A preliminary analysis of the raw data, rather than a finished work - one which focuses on the symbolic objects, especially as they are used by two diviners - Muchona and an Angolan diviner. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 85 pp plus bibliography and list of other publications.

    Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped, some toning to spine of wrapper)

    Book ID: 80923
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  • Rice, Anne.
    MERRICK.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel centered around the beautiful witch Merrick, a descendant of the gens de coleur libre, the New Orleans society of quadroons and octaroons steeped in the lore and traditions of voodoo. Frontispiece. Striking wraparound dust jacket art based on a detail of the painting 'The Snake Charmer' by Henri Rousseau. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454489.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 27226
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  • Simmons, William S.
    EYES OF THE NIGHT: Witchcraft Among a Senegalese People.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1971.). First edition - Bibliography, index. 169 pages.

    Condition: Very good condition.

    Book ID: 23420
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  • A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY. by Smith, Sarah.
    Smith, Sarah.
    A CITIZEN OF THE COUNTRY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, a story of mystery and witchcraft, set in pre World War I French Flanders. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, complete with a small drawing "For --- and thanks for a fun evening at the House of Mirrors, Best." On page 406, she added a missing word and an "anti-curse bookmark" (along with a more typical erratum slip. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-345-433025.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (faint 'x' on bottom of text block.)

    Book ID: 47685
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  • LUPE. by Thompson, Gene.
    Thompson, Gene.
    LUPE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel the story of a young woman who finds herself on trial for murder - by witchcraft. Author's note. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-39441988x.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some soiling to edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 85942
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  • THE GRIPPING BEAST. by Wadley, Margot.
    Wadley, Margot.
    THE GRIPPING BEAST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tale of a American women who travels to Orkney Islands, Scotland and finds herself in the midst of an adventure that involves witchcraft ,murder and danger. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-312-272545.

    Condition: Fine in a fine plastic dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59491
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