The Octagon Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 256 pages, with index. A survey of secret societies from ancient to modern times, including the Assassins, Knights Templar, Sufi, Mithra cults, Rosicrucians, others. 8vo, red material over boards, in dust jacket, with outer transparent jacket heavy-stapled all the way through the DJ and the boards, edges and page margins age-tanned, bookstore sticker and another sticker affixed to end papers, chipping to end papers along fore-edge. Old prices in pencil on front pastedown, names of most recent former owners written on flyleaf, two kinds of highlighting: margin brackets on approximately 30 pages, yellow highlighting by an earlier owner on approximately 95 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: ALD-286
Title: Secret Societies Yesterday and Today
Author: Arkon Daraul
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0863040241
ISBN 13: 9780863040245
Publisher: The Octagon Press
Place of Publication: London, England
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: ASSASSINS, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, SUFI, MITHRA, ROSICRUCIANS, ILLUMINATI
Bookseller catalogs: Religion; Gnosticism & Esoterica;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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