Three Hands Press: US, 2013.
 
First edition. Limited to 666 copies, this being number 622. Hardcover. 8vo. 167pp. 10 Illustrations by Carol Hamilton-Giles. Bound in teal cloth with device blind-stamped to front board and title blind stamped on spine.  Very feint foxing to top edge of text block else 'Fine'. Teal dust jacket with gilt design and title on front and spine. In protective mylar wrapper. Very Good in Fine dust jacket.
 
From the publisher:
 
‘The Afflicted Mirror, based on a research paper presented at the 1996 AAA Anthropology of Religion inaugural conference in Kansas, suggests that for the metaphysical domain to become significant it must distort its appearance so as to attract our attention. This leads not only to validating the existence of the ‘Other’ but also illustrates its influence on how we shape the world. Providing groundbreaking insight on the magician’s actuated relationship with spirits and Gods, The Afflicted Mirror offers a pioneering examination of a topic often overlooked by scholars. As an original phenomenological model, Peter Hamilton-Giles’ The Afflicted Mirror unites such diverse spiritual states as the mysticism of the Seer, the religious ecstasy of the Saint, and the spirit-conjurations of the sorcerer.’
 
£110.