Book Collectors Society: New York, 1953.
 
First thus. A reprint of the 1953 Thames and Hudson edition. Limited to 250, this being unnumbered. Hardcover. 8vo. 350pp. 23 b&w plates and numerous line drawings. Bound in brown morocco. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Shelf-wear and flaking to edges of binding. Spine strong, Front free-endpaper coming away. Gilt top-edge of text-block. Pages tight and clean. No foxing. A Very Good Minus copy of this scarce edition.
 
This is a sensitive, intimate, and moving study of Voodoo in Haiti, a counterpart to Maya Deren’s 52 minute video documentary of the same name. Despite the subject matter being approached as an ‘outsider’ by Maya Deren the study does not lack in empathy, indeed it speaks of openness and, ultimately, surrender, to the Lwa. We at Crucis Books have a very high opinion of this classic study and aim to promote it where possible.
 
£175.