STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS Dialectics of the Witching-Other.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Number 9 of only 17 limited deluxe copies. Original dark green morocco with gilt decorations to the spine, two different elaborate gilt and black designs to the upper and lower board, the upper board with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Housed in a green cloth-covered solander box with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt design to the upper board and with an original drawing by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles window-mounted on the inside. With 20 colour plates by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The slipcase is also in fine condition.

Signed and numbered by Peter Hamilton-Giles in pencil on the title page. A beautifully bound, illustrated and presented volume which concerns itself with the philosophical and theoretical questions facing the concept of the witch and its relationship to the practitioner and the occult student. Hamilton-Giles's second title to be structured around the idea of the 'existential witch', a term he coined in 'The Witching-Other'.