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Doreen Valiente. Where Witchcraft Lives. The Aquarian Press, 1962.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover without dust-jacket. In very good condition. First edition. A rare title- one of the first published texts on Wicca. Binding is tight, and only notable flaw is missing dust-jacket. The text is case-bound in grey buckram, and may be a library rebinding. However, there are no library marks or stamps on either inside or outside of the text. Happy to provide photos upon request.
Seller: BMV Bookstores, Toronto, ON, Canada
Valiente, Doreen. Where Witchcraft Lives FIRST EDITION. The Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. A first printing of the first published work of the "Mother of Modern Witchcraft" Doreen Valiente and "one of the first three books to be published on the subject" of Wicca according to historian Ronald Hutton. In Where Witchcraft Lives, Valiente presents her original research into the history and folklore of witchcraft in her home county of Sussex. Valiente served as the High Priestess of Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven and wrote a great deal of the early religious liturgy within the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". xi, 7-112pp. Presents nicely in archival sleeved dust jacket. Heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with 1" X 3" open tear to bottom edge of front panel, 1/4" loss to head of spine, small tears to edges and corners, rubbing to edges, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Bound in pale blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with some dust soiling and sunning to edges and slight lean to spine. Bookseller's ticket of Samuel Weiser to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first printing, in admittedly worn but present dust jacket, of one of the first three books ever published about Wicca.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Valiente, Doreen:. Where Witchcraft Lives.. Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$409.97 + shipping
Description: Aquarian Press, London 1962. First edition. 1 (w), xi, S. 7-112, 1 (w). Light gray cloth binding with black embossing on the spine (author and title). The rare first edition of the first book by Doreen Valiente, a student of Gerald Gardner. She was for a time his high priestess in the New Forest Coven and designed many of its rituals. - Contents: Foreword. I Who Witches Were. II The Horned God in Sussex. III Sussex Witch Trails. IV Two Strange Stories. V Witches, Hares and the Moon. VI The Powers of Witchcraft. VII Sussex Witch Beliefs. VIII Folk Rites. IX White Witchcraft. X Present-day Witchcraft. XI Modern Black Magic. Bibliography. - Binding barely visible minimal rubbing, a very good copy, apparently unread. Sprache : en
Seller: Occulte Buchhandlung "Inveha", Birstein, Germany
Valiente, Doreen. Where Witchcraft Lives. The Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cream boards with black lettering on the spine. The rear panel of the boards has a slightly different colouring from the front and spine - more grey with slightly streaky patches on the surface in the centre. Not sure how this has come about but most probably something odd in the production process. The spine is also slightly darkened. There are about a dozen small brown spots on the page fore edges with a thin pale brown stain running across the page edges in the centre of these. Two small spots on the bottom edges and a little smudging on the top edges. The pages are clean and bright with little signs of use. No jacket. First printing. From the collection of Peter Haining although there is nothing on the book to indicate this other than a cutting of Valiente's obituary on which he has noted the date.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Valiente, Doreen. Where Witchcraft Lives. Aquarian Press, 1962.
Price: US$505.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First edition in somewhat worn DJ. Dj with chipping, small tears, rubbing, now in mylar DJ cover. Occasional marginalia, some in runic script, moderate shelf wear to book. Pictures available on request.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
VALIENTE, Doreen. WHERE WITCHCRAFT LIVES *. the AQUARIAN PRESS, LONDON * * * * *, 1962.
Price: US$648.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: BOOK: Fine/ $2198.53, Reduced from. WHERE WITCHCRAFT LIVES * VALIENTE, Doreen the AQUARIAN PRESS L0ND0N 1962 1sT Edition Small D/J + H/C. Sun Browning On A Off White Spine With Title In Black Letters, Dust Jacket: Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Interior Flap Shows 15s net. One 1 Inch Round Chip Torn Out Of Bottom Area Of Spine. Hard Cover BooK: Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 112 Numbered Pages, In Fine/ Or As New/ Condition, Appear To Be Lightly Viewed, Clean And Tight To The Spine, Printed On Off White Paper. Dusty On Top. Removing D/J, Spine Has Sun Browning Where The Rays Of Sunlight Penetrated Through D/J. Acquired From The Estate Of Carl Bernstein & Roz Bernstein, Who Were Downsizing. Description Applies To This BooK, ONLY. This BooK Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. WORLD WIDE Shipping, AVAILABLE.
Seller: L. Michael, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
VALIENTE, Doreen. Where witchcraft lives. The Aquarian Press, 1962.
Price: US$694.37 + shipping
Description: 1st impression. Owner's inscription on verso of front free end paper; page fore-edge lightly foxed; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, slightly worn at edges, & protected in reovable clear film Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Doreen Valiente. Where Witchcraft Lives. The Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Author is known as the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, this book concentrates on the area she knew best, Sussex, England. Faint edgwear to dustjacket,not priceclipped. "V" of author name on spine rubbed. 1 tiny faint pale brown mark on rear flap edge, 1" down. Similar pale marks (foxing) on fore edge of pp 89-112, less so on top edges 1or 2 specks on bottom edge.112 pages including 3 page bibliography. No inscriptions. A clean, bright, tight, Very Good ++ copy of this hard to find book, particularly in a dustjacket, which is also VG++. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Matilda Mary's Books, PORTISHEAD Somerset, United Kingdom
VALIENTE, Doreen. Where witchcraft lives.. The Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. pp. xi, [1], 7-112. Bound in publishers pale gray-green cloth. The binding is clean and tight with only the most miniscule signs of bumping to the upper corner tip of the front board. The dust jacket is price clipped on the inner flap and shows spots of wear and rubbing to the extremities. The head cap of the jacket spine is chipped (15 x 13 mm). The rear jacket displays some mild soiling and a couple of small tears (sealed). An ink stamp from the U.S. distributer Wehman Bros. ("Wehman Bros. Publishers 159 Main Street Hackensack, N.J") is present in the lower margin of the title page. Interior pages are generally clean. Pages 92-93 contain a small, light manufacturing smudge. Doreen Valiente (1922-1999), often called "the mother of modern witchcraft" was a founding figure in the contemporary Wicca movement. During the 1950s, while she served as high priestess in Gerald Gardners Brickett Wood coven, Valiente re-worked much of Gardners "Book of Shadows" liturgy into forms still used by many in the Craft today. Later Valiente led a successful fight in Britain against proposed anti-witchcraft legislation. Valientes first book, "Where Witches Live," contains her own primary research into the folklore, witch traditions and witch trials of county Sussex. Valiente also included modern witchcraft practices. According to Ronald Hutton: "the greatest value of her first book to a historian lies in its portrayal of witch ceremonies in the very early 1960s" [Ronald Hutton, The triumph of the moon. Oxford, 1999, p. 310].
Seller: Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books, Concord, MA, U.S.A.
Doreen Valiente. Where Witchcraft Lives. The Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 112pp.Who witches were, the horned god in Sussex, Sussex witch trials, two strange stories, witches, hares and the moon, the powers of witchcraft, Sussex witch beliefs, folk rites, white witchcraft, present-day witchcraft, modern black magic. All in here! A good clean copy, light beige cloth cover, spine a little sunned,some faint spotting on the pages outer edges, a very rare and interesting book.
Seller: WEST WESSEX BOOKS, Taunton, United Kingdom
Valiente, Doreen. WHERE WITCHCRAFT LIVES. Aquarian Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Previous owner has blacked out his name on the front fly-leaf. Thirty-eight pages have ink underling and/or a marginal notation or mark otherwise the book would be near fine. The dust jacket has a small closed tear on the spine panel and very minor creasing and rubbing at the extremities. With the underlining Very good condition in very good + dust jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xi, 112 pages
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc., Lexington, KY, U.S.A.