Horror Montague Summers The Werewolf 1933 1st UK NF

Description: Horror Montague Summers The Werewolf 1933 1st UK NF First UK edition, first printing with 1933 on title page. Publisher: London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1933. 6" x 9.5" Octavio [xiv] 1-307 [i Blank]. Original green covers with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket with 15s net price. True first edition. The US edition was printed the following year. Book Condition: Near Fine Spine edges bumped. Booksellers label on front pastedown. Pastedowns & endpapers lightly browned. Binding is tight. Text is clean.Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Spine edges very lightly chipped. Front cover has a closed tear. The first definitive work on were-wolfs, employs a theological and philosophical approach, incorporating an extensive range of historical documentation and folklore. Summers examines the supernatural practice of shape-shifting, notes the finer distinctions between werewolfery and lycanthropy, and explores the differences of opinion on exactly how ordinary humans are transformed into creatures. Augustus Montague Summers was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. Contents: The Werewolf: Lycanthropy His Science and Practice The Werewolf in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal The Werewolf in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland The Werewolf in France The Werewolf in the North, in Russia and Germany Note on the Werewolf in Literature Witch Ointments Condition. An extremely rare book.

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