Where Witchcraft Lives FIRST EDITION

First Edition. Hardcover. A first printing of the first published work of the "Mother of Modern Witchcraft" Doreen Valiente and "one of the first three books to be published on the subject" of Wicca according to historian Ronald Hutton. In Where Witchcraft Lives, Valiente presents her original research into the history and folklore of witchcraft in her home county of Sussex. Valiente served as the High Priestess of Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven and wrote a great deal of the early religious liturgy within the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". xi, 7-112pp. Presents nicely in archival sleeved dust jacket. Heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with 1" X 3" open tear to bottom edge of front panel, 1/4" loss to head of spine, small tears to edges and corners, rubbing to edges, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Bound in pale blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with some dust soiling and sunning to edges and slight lean to spine. Bookseller's ticket of Samuel Weiser to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first printing, in admittedly worn but present dust jacket, of one of the first three books ever published about Wicca. A first printing of the first published work of the "Mother of Modern Witchcraft" Doreen Valiente and "one of the first three books to be published on the subject" of Wicca according to historian Ronald Hutton. In Where Witchcraft Lives, Valiente presents her original research into the history and folklore of witchcraft in her home county of Sussex. Valiente served as the High Priestess of Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven and wrote a great deal of the early religious liturgy within the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". xi, 7-112pp. Presents nicely in archival sleeved dust jacket. Heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with 1" X 3" open tear to bottom edge of front panel, 1/4" loss to head of spine, small tears to edges and corners, rubbing to edges, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Bound in pale blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild wear to binding, with some dust soiling and sunning to edges and slight lean to spine. Bookseller's ticket of Samuel Weiser to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable first printing, in admittedly worn but present dust jacket, of one of the first three books ever published about Wicca. …