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Lockhart, J. G.
Curses, Lucks and Talismans.
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles, London;
Date of Publication: 1938
Stock Code: 15627
First edition. Octavo, pp., [viii], 184, plus halftone frontispiece and 6 further halftone plates as called for. Publisher’s original black buckram; titled in gilt to spine and upper board; white end-papers; in the original unclipped dust-jacket. Minor loss to jacket spine-tips; creasing to head of lower jacket panel; price corrected in pencil on inner flap. Binding strong and square; the gilt bright. The slightest of toning to edges but otherwise a clean, bright copy. Near-fine in very good or better jacket. A history of curses associated with English country houses. The case studies within include the Wardley Hall skull, the luck of Muncaster, and the fatal mummy case at the British Museum. Scarce with the original jacket. £180.00