Factory 1920'S DEVIL ON 2 STICKS Occult Good Vs Evil (Rare) Legends

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ORIGINAL SUPER RARE 1927 PRINTING OF THE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS
VERY SCARCE OLD OCCULT LEGEND BOOK UNLIKE ANYTHING OUT THERE!
ALCHEMY, MAGIC, GOOD & EVIL, STRANGE TALES, OMINOUS SPIRITS, AND MORE
THIS BOOK IS IN GEM MINT CONDITION FROM COVER TO COVER! FINEST ANYWHERE!!!
MUSEUM QUALITY BOOK THAT WILL ONLY INCREASE IN VALUE

You could travel the world and search the old shops of Paris, London, and Madrid in hopes to find a book like this in this condition... And maybe... Just maybe somewhere upon the dusted over shelf in which time seemed to have forgotten there sits one of these, but until then... This will do! There was never a book written like this, and I'm certain there will never be. You see... Some stories are just their own, they cannot be redone, it simply isn't possible.
This novel tells the tale of demon king Asmodeus, Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo, and his beloved Donna Thomasa.

This a novel by French writer Alain-René Lesage. It is set in Madrid, and it tells the story of demon king Asmodeus, Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo, and his beloved, Donna Thomasa. On a dark October night in Madrid, Don Cleophas Leandro Perez Zambullo, a student of Alcala, is in dreadful trouble. While visiting Donna Thomasa, his beloved, three or four hired bravos set upon him in her apartment, and when he loses his sword in the struggle, he is forced to take flight over the rooftops of the neighboring houses. Spying a light in a garret, he enters through a window and discovers an empty room furnished with the strange gear of a magician. As he is taking stock of the place, he hears a sigh and soon realizes that he is being addressed by a demon in a bottle. To the student's questionings, the spirit replies that he is not Lucifer, Uriel, Beelzebub, Leviathan, Belphegor, or Ashtaroth, but Asmodeus, the Devil on Two Sticks, who always befriends hapless lovers. Cleophas thereupon breaks the vial and out tumbles a monstrous dwarf, with the legs of a goat, a stature of fewer than three feet, and a grotesque and grimacing face. Half concealed by extraordinary clothing and a curiously embroidered white satin cloak are the two crutches on which the dwarf hobbles about.

Because Cleophas is eager to escape his pursuers and Asmodeus wishes to avoid his captor, the magician, the two do not linger in the attic. Cleophas grasps the edge of the demon's cloak, and off they fly into the sky over Madrid. For the remainder of their association together, Asmodeus entertains his companion with views of all that is happening in the city, explaining the circumstances and characteristics of those into whose houses they look.


CHAPTER I.
WHAT SORT OF A DEVIL HE OF THE TWO STICKS WAS—WHEN AND BY WHAT ACCIDENT DON CLEOPHAS LEANDRO PEREZ ZAMBULLO FIRST GAINED THE HONOUR OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE.1
CHAPTER II.
WHAT FOLLOWED THE DELIVERANCE OF ASMODEUS.15
CHAPTER III.
WHERE THE DEVIL TRANSLATED THE STUDENT; AND THE FIRST FRUITS OF HIS factory ECCLESIASTICAL ELEVATION.20
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CHAPTER IV.
STORY OF THE LOVES OF THE COUNT DE BELFLOR AND LEONORA DE CESPEDES.45
CHAPTER V.
CONTINUATION OF THE STORY OF THE LOVES OF THE COUNT DE BELFLOR AND LEONORA DE CESPEDES.77
CHAPTER VI.
NEW OBJECTS DISPLAYED TO DON CLEOPHAS; AND HIS REVENGE ON DONNA THOMASA.104
CHAPTER VII.
THE PRISON, AND THE PRISONERS.116
CHAPTER VIII.
OF VARIOUS PERSONS EXHIBITED TO DON CLEOPHAS BY ASMODEUS, WHO REVEALS TO THE STUDENT WHAT EACH HAS DONE IN HIS DAY.144
CHAPTER IX.
THE MADHOUSE, AND ITS INMATES.168
CHAPTER X.
THE SUBJECT OF WHICH IS INEXHAUSTIBLE.201
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CHAPTER XI.
OF THE FIRE, AND THE DOINGS OF ASMODEUS ON THE OCCASION, OUT OF FRIENDSHIP FOR DON CLEOPHAS.218
CHAPTER XII.
OF THE TOMBS, OF THEIR SHADES, AND OF DEATH.224
CHAPTER XIII.
THE FORCE OF FRIENDSHIP.241
CHAPTER XIV.
THE SQUABBLE BETWEEN THE TRAGIC POET AND THE COMIC AUTHOR.277
CHAPTER XV.
CONTINUATION, AND CONCLUSION, OF THE FORCE OF FRIENDSHIP.289
CHAPTER XVI.
THE DREAMERS.337
CHAPTER XVII.
IN WHICH ORIGINALS ARE SEEN OF WHOM COPIES ARE RIFE.353
CHAPTER XVIII.
RELATING TO OTHER MATTERS WHICH THE DEVIL EXHIBITED TO THE STUDENT.365
CHAPTER XIX.
THE CAPTIVES.378