NY: Crown Publishers, 1978. First edition. 376pp; b&w illus; index. Black cloth; metallic purple spine titles; dust jacket. Spine ends and tips lightly bumped/softened. Else near fine i a very good unclipped jacket with a few short closed tears and some ink bleeding to interior of bottom tips.
A wide-ranging, illustrated survey of occultism purporting to trace the "history of magic rituals and ceremonies around the world, both past and present" (jacket flap). An early work by the Puerto Rico-born cultural anthropologist Migene González-Wippler (b. 1936), noted particularly for her numerous books exploring the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria. Laid in to this copy is an illustrated Spanish-language postcard, signed by González-Wippler to verso, advertising a later book on dreams, Sueños: lo que significan para usted.
