Citadel, New York, 1967, 2^nd paperback ed.  Trade soft cover, 271 pages including Bibliography and Acknowledgments.  Good; wraps show edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases.  Binding cracked in spots with all pages secure.  Stray mark on one page of Bibliography, stain in fore-edge margins of a few rear pages; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages; black & white illustrations.  ‘This source book of the magic arts traces man’s attempts to achieve divinity from earliest times to the present day, from Babylonia to America.  It offers a comprehensive examination of witchcraft in its diverse forms, including divination and astrology, lycanthropy and necromancy, and all the varieties of thaumaturgical practice.  With a view to showing the pronounced impact of magic on all societies, Mr. Wedeck presents actual records referring to witchcraft and sorcery as realities, together with specific spells, charms, invocations, Satanic pacts, descriptions of occult practices, a “Who’s Who in Demonology,” and official decrees relating to magic activities.’ (from rear wrap)