The Werewolf
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1933. First edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth, spine titled in gilt, blind rule, in printed dust jacket (unpriced). [iv]-xiv; [1]-307; [1, blank] pp. 9.5" x 6.25" Two contemporary owner's names front endpapers, light shelf wear, extremities toned, faint foxing top edge, near fine in very good, spine toned and edge worn dust jacket, with spots of soiling spine, shallow chips spine tips, tiny tape repair spine head verso, in mylar cover. Item #245426
ACADEMIA UNDER THE FULL MOON
Eccentric may be an understatement when it comes to describing Montague Summers. But Summers' oddities and proclivity for academic research allowed him to craft one of the foremost modern accounts of werewolf literature and lore. Stepping alongside Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-Wolves (1865), Summers drew together early lycanthropic source material in his systematic study of the European werewolf, with the genre's tropes coming right off its pages. His fervent belief in esoteric subjects (vampires, witches, and the like) would mark the priest as crazed in some spheres; nevertheless, the rigor of his research makes The Werewolf a cornerstone of occultism.
Presented here is a first edition, first printing.
Price: $2,500.00