Malleus Maleficarum
London: Anglobooks / The Pushkin Press, 1952. Very Good. Item #47459
London: Anglobooks / The Pushkin Press, 1952. First American Edition with blue cancel imprint stamp for Anglobooks on full title and matching "First American Edition 1952" stamp to copyright.. Octavo (22.3cm); publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine; [xxii],277pp; title pages in red and black; illustrated frontis. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn with nudging at spine ends. Prior owner's small surname label at top of front free endpaper, with bookseller's ticket for Savile Book Shop of Washington, DC on rear pastedown. Pages very lightly and uniformly toned but unmarked. Binding is sound.
American issue of the Pushkin Press Edition. Summers' was the first, and for decades only, full translation into English of Heinrich Kramer's classic treatise on witchcraft.
Price: $100.00