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THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

By: Burland, C. A.

Price: $32.50 USD

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

196 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). B&w illustrations. "From the earliest time man has been fascinated by visions and dreams, and by the discovery that there were men who could, by magical powers, improve a crop or foretell the weather. As civilization grew there were demands for knowledge which would give control over other men or protection from the wiles of enemies. The study of magic and counter magic became important in the policy of states. Later magic was denounced as a work of the Devil, and then the Devil himself was demoted to become a laughing stock. Yet even nowadays there exist in the...
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BRITISH AIRBORNE TROOPS 1940-45. (MACDONALD ILLUSTRATED WAR STUDIES SERIES.)

By: Gregory, Barry.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1974.:

Seller ID: 21221

160 pp, 8vo (9" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0385042477 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "This systematically arranged book deals comprehensively with the training, insignia, organisation, weapons, equipment, air transport, military operations and unit histories of British airborne forces. Military operations tells the whole war-time story from the ill-fated raid on the Tragino aqueduct in southern Italy in February 1941 to the Rhine-crossing and the cl osing stages of the recapture of Burma in 1945. Reference is also made to the Special Air Service Re...
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BATTLE COAST: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF D-DAY, THE SIXTH OF JUNE, 1944.

By: Hunter, R.H. and Brown, T.H.C.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Spurbooks, Bourne End, 1972.:

Seller ID: 17553

142 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Map endpapers, profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. "....traces the development of amphibious assault from Dunkirk to D-Day, and illustrates with words, maps and photographs the event s leading up to D-Day and during the landings. Every phase of the assault, airborne and seaborne is covered and the actions of British, American, Canadian, French and German units, fully detailed and described." Contents: 1940-1944; The D e f e n c e s o f Normandy; The Plan of Attack; Operation NEPTUNE; The American Airdrops; The Red Devils; UT...
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HELL IN THE FOREIGN LEGION. (TRANSLATION OF "AFRIKA WEINT".)

By: Lohndorff, Ernst F. Translated by Gerard Shelley.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Greenberg: 1932

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 27925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

349 pp, 7 7/8" H. Brown cloth with dark brown lettering/emblem on spine. "In writing the account of my life as a member of the French Foreign Legion, I am aided partly by memory and partly by the blurred and faded scraps of paper which I carried about with me in the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains. I have no intention of perpetrating one of the usual tirades against France, for I have been all over the world and have friends of every nation. My reminiscences serve rather as an accusation against the conscience of the world and the League of Nations that such a thing as a Foreign Legion shou...
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THE RED DEVILS: FROM BRUNEVAL TO THE FALKLANDS. (NEW EDITION). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

By: Norton, G.G. Introduction by Lt-General Sir Brian Horrocks.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1984

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 24056

ISBN: 0436315254

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps/battle plans. "From Bruneval to North Africa, from Normandy to Suez, by parachute and glider the men of the Airborne Forces have gone by air to battle. But their activities have by no means been confined to purely airborne operations - the Special Air Service performed prodigies of valour behind the German Lines in the Western Desert and Italy; the Glider Pilot Regiment fought beside their infantry comrades in Normandy, at Arnhem and across the Rhine. Their post-war successors, maintaining these traditions, have stood between Jew and Arab in Palest...
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TRAILS OF THE ANGELES: 100 HIKES IN THE SAN GABRIELS. SEVENTH EDITION.

By: Robinson, John W.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Wilderness Press: 1998

Edition: 7th Edition.

Seller ID: 22125

ISBN: 0899972322

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

191 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, folding map in pocket at rear. "The San Gabriel Mountains are only a one-hour's drive from Los Angeles, yet contain peaceful, secluded areas where nature still reigns relatively undisturbed. This book takes you to the intimate parts of the San Gabriels, as well as to popular and easily accessible hikes. Choose from 100 hikes, ranging from easy one-hour strolls to overnight backcountry trips. For the history buff there are hikes up the old Mt. Lowe Railway. For wilderness seekers, there are tours of the Cucamonga and San Gabriel Wilderness areas, forev...
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IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES.

By: Yeats, W.B., edited and selected by. (William Butler Yeats.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble: 1993

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29851

ISBN: 0880290730

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

416 pp, 8 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and song which he collected and edited for publication in 1892. Here are tales of the chilling wail of the Banshee, whose cry portends death, and of the fish-tailed Merrow, whose beautiful women spurn their green-haired husbands for handsome local fishermen. There are bewitched puddings, lost wishes, fairies, changelings, Leprechauns, ghosts, giants, devils and kings that touch our souls and fire our imagination. Not coincidentally, it is in the weath of ...
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Keyword: Devils

THE MAGICAL ARTS: A SHORT HISTORY

BRITISH AIRBORNE TROOPS 1940-45. (MACDONALD ILLUSTRATED WAR STUDIES SERIES.)

BATTLE COAST: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF D-DAY, THE SIXTH OF JUNE, 1944.

HELL IN THE FOREIGN LEGION. (TRANSLATION OF "AFRIKA WEINT".)

THE RED DEVILS: FROM BRUNEVAL TO THE FALKLANDS. (NEW EDITION). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.

TRAILS OF THE ANGELES: 100 HIKES IN THE SAN GABRIELS. SEVENTH EDITION.

IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES.