Discovery Witches, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. First UK Edition/First Printing. Near Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket. SIGNED BY DEBORAH HARKNESS on title page. Signature only, no inscriptions. Author's debut novel and first book in the All Souls" series.

First Edition/First Printings of all 3 volumes of the All Souls Trilogy, with the complete number lines; SIGNED by the author to the 3rd volume "The Book of Life". A gorgeous set of this trilogy, uncommon with all 3 together and in this condition. Only very slight rubbing to the board and jacket edges, else as new and unread. No book remaindered, no book price-clipped, no book ex-library; all books in Mylar covers and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A first edition, a first printing with full number line. Inscribed by Harkness on title page. A fine copy in a fine DJ, protected by a removable mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #177. Inscribed by Author(s).

"A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness 2011 - First Edition, First Printing Hand Signed Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" 579 Pages The jacket is in very good to like new condition with no wear. The jacket is protected with a removal Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in like new condition, free from rips, tears, bends, stains, and writing. The book has been hand signed by the author on the title page in black ink. The boards are in like new condition with no wear. The binding is tight and square.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author. First edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine unclipped jacket. Jacket protected by removable mylar. Sticker only on protective mylar jacket, not on actual jacket. First edition. Signed/autographed. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed. Some mild rubbing to the edges. Signed by Harkness on title page. Scarce. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

First Edition. Small 8vo (84 x 141mm). [16], 127, [1]pp. A little browned and spotted in places, some marking to a few leaves, blank lower fore-corners of *1-2 torn away (not touching the text). Early 19th-century tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, paper spine label completed in manuscript (front joint crudely repaired but holding, a little rubbed in places). London: for John Wright.and Sold by Edward Milward Book-Seller in Leitchfield, Wing B4698. Rare. ESTC records copies at BL, Cambridge, Glasgow and National Library of Scotland; Folger, Huntington, Newberry, Trinity College and Yale. A re-issue was published in 1686 with a new title page cancelling A1-2 and quire *. The re-issue is also rare with only five copies recorded in ESTC. No copies recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub since 1956 save for a defective (title-page missing and supplied in manuscript) and "badly worn" copy at Bloomsbury in 2004. Two works bound together on the falsity of astrology published over one-hundred years apart. "Hence proceed those swarms of Fortune-Tellers, Geomancers, Diviners and Interpreters of Dreams, who possess the common people with apprehensions, that they know all their fate, the number of their days, the casualties of their life; and even their natural inclinations, and thoughts of their hearts: by this means cheating the poor innocent souls into the grossest superstitions imaginable" (A4, Preface). An impassioned plea by John Brinley of Brockton, Staffordshire to his neighbours not to be seduced by "such men, who practice unlawful arts" and that many illnesses and unusual occurrences can  be ascribed to rational reasons. He notes that "there is nothing.more usual with the Common people, than to ascribe to Witchcraft, all Disasters, or Diseases whatever seeming strange to vulgar sense"(p.15). He lists a number of afflictions - such as hydrophobia (after the "biteing of a Mad-dog") and attempts a rational explanation. Brinley also sets out this reasons for believing that witches exist and offers examples of witchcraft and sorcery in the Bible, he also includes a description of "signs whereby one may discover whether a party be possest [possessed] or bewitched" (p.58). In the second part of this work (which begins with a separate title-page) Brinley turns his attention to the misdemeanours of astrologers, "superstitious fopperies and almost ridiculous"  (p.69) but which nevertheless serve to undermine scripture. This copy has quire *1-4 which is not present in a number of copies, it is not present in the EBBO copy online [BL copy] or, according to ESTC, in the Folger or Huntington copy. Two of the leaves in this quire in the present copy have been torn at the corners which perhaps suggests they were intended to be cancelled. The quire contains two poems: a verse address by Brinley to the "general sort of readers" and a poem "The Astrologers" (signed W.W) which begins with the opening five lines of Jasper Mayne's commendatory verse on his friend William Cartwright. [Bound after]: BEAUMONT (George). Fixed Stars: or, an Analyzation and Refutation of Astrology.to which is added, many anecdotes, shewing the Folly, and the Mischievous Tendency of Fortune-Seeking, Fortune-Telling, and Almanack Predictions. Second Edition. Small. 8vo. 144pp. A little cropped in places (in order to make it fit into the volume), some marking browning. Norwich: printed bu C Berry., 1814. Provenance: James Whatman, 19th-century armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. .