1st 1954 153pp Rider & Company. Illustrated. Red cloth with lettering in black to spine. Dustwrapper worn all edges with some loss at bottom (now in protective sleeve). VG+ in G+ dustwrapper.
 
This copy is inscribed “To William Yeomans, with the author’s compliments, Gerald B. Gardner, my Witch Mark” (with illustration of same). Yeomans was a musicologist based in Northampton. A newspaper clipping with the headline “No
black magic in Will’s ‘witch music’” is pasted onto the front end-paper, detailing how Yeomans came to provide the background music for an ITV television programme on witchcraft. Yeomans signature in pencil inside front board.
 
Also included as a paste-in is a double sided hand-written letter from Gardner on blue paper. In the letter Gardner asks Yeomans to arrange the “making of another record” which could potentially be sold at the museum. Signed G. B. Gardner.
 
Finally, a rare promotional leaflet on thin card for the museum is also included. Size approx 210 x 152mm and lightly age toned, it has Gardner’s famous illustration of a witch in flight over the Witches Mill on the front. On the reverse Gardner writes about the belief in and disdain for magic and witchcraft before inviting the reader to “come and find out for yourself,” followed by detailed directions. On the top of the leaflet “Given to Will Yeomans by G. Br. Gardner” is written in ink.