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Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Grillot de Givry; J. Courtenay Locke
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1931.A collection of the iconography of occultism, presenting with full explanations a large number of pictures selected from the most curious, characteristic, and rare illustrations to works on sorcery, magic, astrology, cheiromancy, cartomancy, alchemy, etc. including works in manuscript and incunabula form. Translated from the French of Emile-Jules Grillot de Givry by J. Courtenay Locke.
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The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1931.First published in 1910, this is the first US printing of the 1931 revised edition of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson’s Australian coming of age novel set in an 1890s Melbourne all-girls boarding school. In the original jacket illustrated by Paul Wenck.
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The Sonnets of Petrarch
Joseph Auslander
London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1931.Translated by Joseph Auslander.
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Boy
James Hanley
London: Boriswood, 1931.First trade edition of Hanley’s second novel, a very grim tale of the brief life of a thirteen year old stowaway from Liverpool. YOUNG 1694. This copy with the signature of Gary Simes and a newspaper clipping of a photographic portrait of Hanley to the front endpaper.