The Galanty Show: An Autobiography

by Montague Summers, Brocard Sewell (Introduction)

Hard cover in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket design by Neil J. Crawford. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning to DJ, notable to spine, and front at spine point. Creasing to DJ head, a couple of small closed tears at fold points, small open tear at front head. DJ colour nice and bright, with pageblock head dyed a complementary hue. Grey cloth boards have gilt signature to front leading edge, gilt detail to spine; light wear only. Within, minor tanning at pastedowns and endpapers, a couple of dog-eared corners at foot, otherwise content is tightly bound and unmarked. CN

Genres: Biography

259 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1980

About the author

Augustus Montague Summers was an Anglican priest and later convert to Roman Catholicism known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the notorious 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.

Reviews

[Signor Mambrino · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fuck me, that was boring.
I wrote a far more in depth review of this book and Timothy d'Arch Smith's Summers Bibliography here.