Leacock, Seth and Leacock, Ruth.  Spirits of the Deep: Drums, Mediums and Trance in a Brazilian City.
 
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Natural History Press, 1972.
 
First edition. 8vo. x, 404pp. Hardcover. Near fine. Blue boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. Some mild rubbing to front board. Inscription to owner ‘For Bob, Best regards, Seth’ to front free end-paper. Pages clean, no foxing. Mild wear to dust-wrapper, now in protective mylar wrapper.
Unlike other copies available this is not an ex-library book.,
 
From inside flap of dustr-wrapper: ‘In Spirits of the Deep the authors describe the Batuque as a complex synthesis of the religious ideas brought to the New World by African slaves and Brazilian Catholicism.  Focusing on the individual believer, this study shows how the Batuque is lived by its members: their relations with the spirits, the act of possession, and the aid that the cult provides in their often desperate daily lives.  The reader will find this book and unforgettable portrait of a people possessed’.
 
£65