(Supernatural, Occult, Ghost Stories.) James Reynolds: 'Gall...

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(Supernatural, Occult, Ghost Stories.) James Reynolds: 'Gallery of Ghosts', New York, Creative Age Press, 1949, 1st edition, colour frontis + 23 full page b/w illustrations as called for, colour pictorial end papers/pastedowns, 4to, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. Covers 23 authentic ghost occurrences from 11 countries, including Norway, Italy, Saxony, France, Belgium, Holland, India, England, America etc., each with accompanying full page illustration by the author, together with Charles G. Harper: 'Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural with some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends', London, Chapman & Hall, 1907, 1st edition, portrait frontis (loose) + 64 illustrations on 57 full page plates + 5 ills. in text as called for, binding a/f, original cloth worn and soiled, rebacked retaining majority of orig. backstrip, boards laminated, inner joints weak (reinforced with tape to front inner joint), top edge gilt, bookplate of Robert Frederick Green, 1909, to front pastedown, plus Oswald Wirth: 'Introduction to the Study of Tarot', 1983, 2nd impression, orig. wraps, and Peter Underwood: 'Haunted London', Fontana, 1975, 1st paperback edition, orig. wraps, Mandrake Press promotional pictorial card promoting edition of Aleister Crowley 'The Rites of Eleusis' depicting Leila Waddell (1880-1932) who became a Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley, and a powerful historical figure in magick and Thelema in her own right. (4)