Summers Rev (49 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 345, 186 pp. The front and rear hinges have failed and are repaired with plastic tape. Some light moisture staining to the faces of the covers. The binding of the text block is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xxxvii + 283pp; b/w illustrations. Previous owner's name written on front blank endpaper. Contents clean and textually unmarked; no library stamps. Unabridged republication of the John Rodker (1930) edition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A Good copy in original embossed brown cloth lettered in gold. Tanning/foxing to the paper, but with the binding sound and the text legible throughout. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. 2nd Holden Ed. (1st-1927). xxxii+(10, facs. of 1663 1st ed. t.p.+ some material not included in 1671 or 1704 edition editions)+155+colophon; internally clean, tight & unmarked. Cloth backed grey boardcovers excellent, only flaws being outer corner rubbing plus a very small dent to front fore-edge edge. T.p. further states that it is edited 'from the Third Impression (1671) and Collated from the Fourth Edition (1704)'. Both the 1927 and 1928 Holden editions are undated but the 1927 one has an additional name, Antonio Coello, among contributors, the 1930 edition is dated.

Hardback. reprint, 1892. This 4 x 6 inch book is a commentary on the book of Jonah in the Old Testament. There's a frontis. map and an illustration of the home of the prophet on the mound of Nebbi Yunus 242 Good. Covers and spine have some wear and soiling. No.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Limited Edition. Attractively bound in quarter polished brown buckram with gilt titles over boards. With a bookplate to the front pastedown otherwise a nice copy, well protected by the jacket which is missing a piece on the rear and a few other tears. The front panel looks quite nice. One of 575 numbered copies. Reprints the 1672 text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Inscribed by a constable of Hungerford. Enlarged edition, with additions by Harold Peake. Illustrated with plates. Binding is cloth. n.d., 1900.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 167pp. Illustrated throughout - including full page plates. Interesting topography reference literature. The book is in very good condition - clean and bright. It presents very nicely on the shelf. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First American Edition. Octavo. xviii, 19-279 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrated. Dark brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped designs on the covers and gilt stamped title on the spine. Cloth chipped head and base of the spine. Corners are bumped. Heavy toning to front and rear end sheets. Light toning and light scattered foxing to the contents. Previous owner faint name written on the right front flyleaf. First published in London 1855.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, xviii+286pp, camel-color cloth with spine stamped in gold, no dustwrapper. Copy number 607 of a total edition of 650. Elegantly printed modern edition of this foundational work on the Restoration stage. This copy has neat ink marginalia providing cross-references and scholarly notes. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Hardcover. Very good minus blue blindstamped 16mo., bright gilt title to spine. Spotty orange soiling to boards, rubbing to hinges, spine ends; corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and early/late pages but majority of interior is clean w/bright text. Tightly bound. 192 pp. Religion. REL/8293.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First of this edition. New preface to this University Books edition by Leslie Shepard. Stained front edge. Else good in good dust jacket, now in mylar. Documentation drawn from the capital trials of 900 persons, more or less, who within the last fifteen years have in Lorraine paid the penalty of death for the crime of Witchcraft". First published in 1595. Translated by E. A. Ashwin. First American edition of this rare work.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Montague Summers [Rev.]. Essays in Petto. Lon: The Fortune Press, no date (1928), xii, 183 pp. *** "It sometimes happens at a consistory that the Holy Father, after creating certain cardinals, adds that he has nominated one or more additional cardinals, whom he reserves in petto, and whom he will make known later . . ." In this volume Montague includes two previously unknown essays (in petto) written some years before. Please look at the picture of the Contents for a list of the essays. Summers was a scholar who became an authority on 17th. century English drama, various aspects of the occult - Satanism, vampires, werewolves, witchcraft, demons, spiritualism, etc.,and Gothic romance literature. He has the distinction of doing the first English translation of Malleus Maleficarum, an infamous book on witchcraft. The occult became popular with writers and the general public in the early 20th. century which probably encouraged Summers to pursue his studies. The essays in this volume are wide ranging and definitely scholarly in nature. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Bound in brown paper boards and a yellow cloth spine with gilt lettering. The covers are clean with very light wear, with one small, shallow dent on left side at top of front cover. The contents are clean and complete in a good binding. VG+ condition. *** 9 inches tall by 6.5 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Binding tight; interior is nice other than stamp on title page and ffep; previous owner name ffep. Royal blue cloth-covered boards in nice condition; bright gilt lettering and minor bumps to spine ends. Pages are rough cut with a few at the beginning uncut; light foxing to page edges and end papers. Pastel dust jacket in mylar; lightly soiled with chipping at corners; 2" closed tear upper rear. Mild musty smell. The tale of the historic British town written by its own Congregational Church pastor (Summers), with additions by Harold Peake and a chapter on "modern" Hungerford and an author bio by C. Camburn. 167pp. Printed for the Trustees of the Borough and Manor of Hungerford.

Secaucus, New Jersey: University Books, Inc., 1974. A Fine, evidently Unread copy. Facsimile of the 1929 Rodker First English Edition. Square, Sewn binding Extremely tight. Dust Jacket light extremity wear (see image), and conservatively Very Good+. Volume II of University Books Summers/Rodker reissue. First Edition Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover/Full Cloth/Sewn. Fine/Very Good+. Illus. by "40 curious wood cuts, some of extreme beauty and numerous decorated initials taken from the 1st edition". 4to size - over 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. A TWO PART 61pp PAMPHLET PUBLISHED IN 1928 BY PHILIP SAINSBUY AT THE CAYME PRESS IN LONDON, AS CAYME PRESS PAMPHLET No. 7. THE FIRST PART ,UNDER THE TITLE THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, IS AN ESSAY BY THE REV. MONTAGUE SUMMERS, " A STUDY OF MASTER MATTHEW HOPKINS, COMMONLY CALLED WITCH FINDER GENERAL", THE SECOND PART IS A REPRINT OF THE 1647 " THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES" WRITTEN BY MATTHEW HOPKINS HIMSELF. CHIPPED AT FRONT WRAP CORNERS AND FORE-EDGE: TWO CHIPS TO SPINE ALSO. OTHERWISE FAIR.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Limited Edition. Hand numbered "514" out of an "edition limited to 1275 copies." Fair shape due to discoloration on bottom of spine where the jacket is missing a large piece and some medium other wear. Previous owners vintage name and UK address on corner of limitation page. Contents fine. What is left of jacket is protected in an archival sleeve and the front panel has Bosch's "Last Judgement" reproduced. Neat typography with some red lettering marginal publisher typeface through-out. Rare.

1st Edition. New York [Gloucester, MA]: Dover Publications, Inc./Peter Smith [Publisher, Inc.], 1971. NEW / Unread old stock, RARE thus. Touch of shelfwear, light edge age. Handbound in Thick Buckram. "This Dover [Peter Smith] edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by John Rodker, London, in 1928, It also contains an Introduction by the Rev. Montague Summers prepared for the 1948 reprint". First Edition Thus. Hard Cover/Buckram/Sewn. New/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by Frontispiece of Pope Innocent VIII / "Innocentivs . VIII . Papa . Genvensis . ". 4to size - over 10" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Bumping to spine top and tail. Mild foxing on FEP and prelims. Binding tight and firm. No previous owner bookplates/inscriptions. 1929 1st Edition , THE VAMPIRE IN EUROPE By Rev Montague Summers Author Bio: Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 - 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. He initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never affiliated with any Catholic diocese or religious order, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. He was employed as a teacher of English and Latin while independently pursuing scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century. The latter earned him election to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916. Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his History of Witchcraft and Demonology in 1926. That work was followed by other studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. Summers also produced a modern English translation, published in 1929, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. He has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Synopsis: Renowned occultist and clergyman Montague Summers explores the realm of Vampires and stunning monsters. He comes up with some very shocking possibilities as well as "true tales" of terror from England, Ireland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, et al. Binding: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 330 Language: English Published By: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd. Broadway House: 68-74 Carter Lane, E.C., London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Bumping to spine top and tail. Mild foxing on FEP and prelims. Binding tight and firm. No previous owner bookplates/inscriptions. SKU: BTETM0002076 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Some bumping to spine top and tail. No dust jacket. Pages clean. Previous owner bookplate. 1929 1st Edition , US Edition THE VAMPIRE By Rev Montague Summers Author Bio: Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 - 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. He initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never affiliated with any Catholic diocese or religious order, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. He was employed as a teacher of English and Latin while independently pursuing scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century. The latter earned him election to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916. Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his History of Witchcraft and Demonology in 1926. That work was followed by other studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. Summers also produced a modern English translation, published in 1929, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. He has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Synopsis: Mr. Montague endeavored to set forth what might be termed the philosophy of vampirism, and however ghastly and macabre they may appear, he felt that here one must not tamely shrink from a careful and detailed consideration of the many cognate passions and congruous circumstances which, there can be no reasonable doubt, have throughout the ages played no impertinent and no trivial but a very vital and very memorable part in consolidating the vampire legend, and in perpetuating the vampire tradition among the darker and more secret mysteries of belief that prevail in the heart of man. Binding: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 356 Language: English Published By: E.P. Dutton & Company, New York Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Some bumping to spine top and tail. No dust jacket. Pages clean. Previous owner bookplate. SKU: BTETM0002073 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Publisher's original blue cloth, owl-of-Athena in gilt to front and gilt lettering to spine, plain endpapers. 1926 1st Edition , THE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY By Rev Montague Summers Author Bio: Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 - 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. He initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never affiliated with any Catholic diocese or religious order, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. He was employed as a teacher of English and Latin while independently pursuing scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century. The latter earned him election to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916. Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his History of Witchcraft and Demonology in 1926. That work was followed by other studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. Summers also produced a modern English translation, published in 1929, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. He has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Synopsis: Vividly detailed and highly readable, this classic history of witchcraft and demonology provides a thorough exploration of sorcery, Satanism, and every variety of the black arts. Reflecting popular folklore and theological opinions of the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, this survey of necromancy traces witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century, describing the link between heresy and the occult. Threaded with dramatic accounts of witch trials and devil's pacts, this time-tested reference offers a compelling look at The Worship of the Witch, Demons and Familiars, the Sabbat, and Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism. It also offers fascinating insight into the role of the Witch in Dramatic Literature. A prolific occult historian, Montague Summers wrote numerous books, and he edited and translated such important early demonology and witchcraft texts as the Malleus Maleficarum. An intriguing perspective on the development of the black arts and their heretical interpretations by society, church, and state, The History of Witchcraft and Demonology will capture the attention of the general reader as well as the occult enthusiast. Binding: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 374 Language: English Published By: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd., London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Publisher's original blue cloth, owl-of-Athena in gilt to front and gilt lettering to spine, plain endpapers. SKU: BTETM0002641 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Copy no. 483 of 1290 copies. Black cloth, deckle edge pages on Batchelor hand-made paper printed by White Friars Press. Spine good. From Wikipedia : "Sinistrari was an advisor to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition in Rome. He was considered an expert on exorcism and wrote of the effects (during exorcisms) of various plants and other substances[1] including cubeb, cardamom, ginger and nutmeg. He was also considered an expert on demonology, [2] sins relating to sexuality, and all combinations thereof, including investigations of those individuals accused of sexual relations with demons. Allegations along these lines became staples of later Inquisition investigations of those accused of witchcraft." 127 pages. Translated by Rev Montague Summers from Latin.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Some minor bumping to spine top and tail. Mild foxing on prelims. 1928 1st Edition , THE VAMPIRE HIS KITH AND KIN By Rev Montague Summers Author Bio: Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 - 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. He initially prepared for a career in the Church of England at Oxford and Lichfield, and was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1908. He then converted to Roman Catholicism and began styling himself as a Catholic priest. He was, however, never affiliated with any Catholic diocese or religious order, and it is doubtful that he was ever actually ordained to the priesthood. He was employed as a teacher of English and Latin while independently pursuing scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century. The latter earned him election to the Royal Society of Literature in 1916. Noted for his eccentric personality and interests, Summers became a well known figure in London society as a result of the publication of his History of Witchcraft and Demonology in 1926. That work was followed by other studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. Summers also produced a modern English translation, published in 1929, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. He has been characterized as "arguably the most seminal twentieth century purveyor of pop culture occultism." Synopsis: Mr. Montague endeavored to set forth what might be termed the philosophy of vampirism, and however ghastly and macabre they may appear, he felt that here one must not tamely shrink from a careful and detailed consideration of the many cognate passions and congruous circumstances which, there can be no reasonable doubt, have throughout the ages played no impertinent and no trivial but a very vital and very memorable part in consolidating the vampire legend, and in perpetuating the vampire tradition among the darker and more secret mysteries of belief that prevail in the heart of man. Binding: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Collation: pp. 356 Language: English Published By: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Some minor bumping to spine top and tail. Mild foxing on prelims. SKU: BTETM0001340 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good in gray cloth spine with gray paper covered boards, spine is darkened, corners bumped, rear hinge is cracked, lacking a dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. vi, 341 pages. 3 pages of advertisements of Publications of the M. E. Church, South. Brown cloth hardcover with blind stamped decorative borders and faded gilt title on the spine. Light shelf wear and some fading to the brown cloth. End sheets toned. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Not Stated. The Pushkin Press, London, 1951. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair, Dustjacket has small repaired tears. The dust jacket is priceclipped. This is a reprint edition, Red boards with gilt title. Translated to English by Rev. Summers. 278 pages. Internally clean without marks.

8vo. vi, [ii], 123[1]pp, frontis, text illustration. Original cloth gilt ¼ style, paper boards, printed on HMP, uncut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. The blue dust jacket (with only a very little wear at the top of the spine) has been enclosed in a removable plastic cover which has resulted in the DJ being in basically excellent condition with a very mildly faded spine. The blue cloth covered book is likewise in very good condition. The pages are untrimmed along side and bottom. There are four hand drawn maps depicting Hungerford from before the romans till the Domesday Book. There are also several B/W photos of Hungerford and other relevant topics. The contents include thoughts on prehistoric Hungerford to old customs , to the situation at the time of writing. xvi, 167pp.