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London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOFS FOR THE CASED EDITION (on front cover states "probable publication date 4 September 1989"). Prepublication First Edition. Blue soft cover. 330pp. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Anthology of tales of love lost and found, letters on marriage and fatherhood, together with reflections on cigarette-smoking, baseball and the perils of nearsightedness, including six new pieces - some of the selections were written for The New Yorker. Keillor states that the stories are "at the time of Ronald Reagan, the President who never told bad news to the American people". Garrison Keillor is an American storyteller, humourist, columnist, satirist and radio personality. The host of "A Prairie Home Companion" on the Minnesota Public Radio Show - heard in Britain on BBC 7 "Garrision Keillor's Radio Show". He wrote and appeared in Robert Altman's final film, A Prairie Home Companion… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976 [First published in 1976 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd] Now out of print. 181pp with index, notes, calendar of witch trials. Clean text pages with no internal markings. Very good copy except that there is no dustjacket. Contents: Introduction; Chronological Survey; Distinction of Popular and Learned Traditions; The Content of Popular Tradition; The Imposition of Learned Notions; The Social Context of Witch Trials; Conclusion; Calendar of Witch Trials; List of Abbreviated Titles; Notes; Addenda; Index. The book explores the relationship between clerical and lay notions of witchcraft in late medieval Europe. Richard Kieckhefer is a professor of religion and history at Northwestern University, and a world renowned historian working on the late Middle Ages in Western Europe.