[Rarebooks] FS: Hallow's Eve

[Clare Murphy]

1.  AMBROSE, ISAAC.  ULTIMA; THE LAST THINGS, IN REFERENCE TO THE 
FIRST AND MIDDLE ...MEDITATIONS ON LIFE, DEATH, JUDGEMENT, HELL, 
RIGHT PURGATORY AND HEAVEN. Glasgow., 1737. Half calf with marbled 
boards, starting at hinges. Paper browned. Square 8vo. [158 pgs] Hell 
and damnation on every page.  $95.00

2.  BENES, PETER.  MASKS OF ORTHODOXY : FOLK GRAVESTONE CARVING IN 
PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS 1689-1805, THE. Amherst, MA: 
University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. Illustrated by many 
black-and-white plates and drawings. First edition. Black cloth with 
silver design to front board and silver lettering to the spine; 
pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by author. Small 4to. [273 pgs] 
Fine/Near fine. Gift inscription by author.  dust jacket has few 
small tears at top edge and corners, intact.  Contents are clean and 
sound.  $125.00

3.  KENNEDY, PATRICK, 1801-73.  LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS 
. London: Macmillan and Co, 1866. Illustrated by W. Small. First 
edition. 3/4 contemporary green polished calf with green and red 
marbled cloth boards, gilt decorated raised bands and florets in 
spine compartments with red leather title label and gilt lettering. 
All edges marbled. [352 pgs] Fine. Some of a sub-genre of Irish 
stories and legends covered here are: Household Stories, Legends Of 
The "Good People". ;Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts,and Fetches; Ossianic 
and Other Early Legends; and Legends Of The Celtic Saints. Gorgeous 
book. <http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71920.jpg>  $250.00

4.  MACMANUS, SEUMAS.  HIBERNIAN NIGHTS. TWENTY-TWO TALES OF MAGIC, 
MYSTERY AND WITCHERY CHOSEN AS THE CREAM OF HIS STORYLORE BY THE LAST 
OF THE TRUE IRISH SHANACHIES. New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. 
Illustrated by Paul Kennedy. First edition. Light green cloth with 
gilt lettering at front board, dark green cloth at spine with gilt 
lettering and design; pictorial dust jacket. 8vo. [263 pgs] Fine/Near 
fine. Introduction by Padraic Colum. Minor shelf wear at dust jacket 
extremities, since covered with mylar.  Contents are tight and clean. 
$50.00

5.  ROWE, ELIZABETH.  FRIENDSHIP IN DEATH ; IN TWENTY LETTERS FROM 
THE DEAD TO THE LIVING.  TO WHICH ARE ADDED, LETTERS MORAL AND 
ENTERTAINING.  IN PROSE AND VERSE: IN THREE PARTS, IN TWO VOLUMES . 
London: Rivington, Caslon, Law, 1734. 2 volumes. Original calf with 
gilt designs to the spine. 16mo. [273/312 pgs] Good. Volume I; front 
board detached, but present ; crack down center of spine, but intact. 
Marbled end papers. Inscription of previous owner dated 1790 to first 
free endpaper and last free endpaper.  Also previous owner sig at top 
of title page.  Bottom right corner of title page torn and missing. 
Appears to be missing frontispiece. volume II; hinges cracked but 
intact, wear at extremities.  $110.00

6.  SEYMOUR, ST. JOHN. D.  IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY. 
Baltimore: Norman, Remington & Co, 1913. First American edition. 
Burgundy cloth with gilt embossed lettering at front board and spine. 
8" x 5.5". [256 pgs] Very good. Light circular stains at front board. 
Scattered foxing to contents, with minor shelf wear at extremities. 
Otherwise clean and sound.  $145.00

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