New York, NY: Philip Wellby, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. lxxxiii & 423pp [iv ads]. Original brown cloth with black titling and wreath to upper board, gilt titling and rules to spine, top edge gilt. A novel written in the form of a series of letters by the French..... More
Chicago: De Laurence, Scott & Co., 1909. First US Edition (Unauthorised). Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 544pp. Original gilt decorated red cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt pentagram design to front board, blind rules to margins of same. Frontispiece portrait photograph of L. W. de Laurence with tissue guards. Preliminaries..... More
London: William Rider & Sons, 1913. First UK edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 298pp + 10pp ads. Original red cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and gilt device to upper board, top edge gilt. Prentice Mulford (1834–1891) was a noted literary humorist and California author, who helped found the..... More
Chicago, IL: De Laurence, Scott & Co., 1910. "Edition DeLuxe" Hardcover. Two Volume set. Large Quartos, xvi 394pp & viii + 396pp. [ + 4pp. adverts]. Original maroon fabrikoid cloth with gilt pentacle within a sunburst design on front boards and gilt titles on spines. The de Laurence pirate edition..... More
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Stamford, CT: U.S. Games Systems, Inc., ND ( circa 1988 ). Softcover. 2.75 x 1.5 inches. Matchbox-sized instruction booklet, stapled printed wrappers, 44pp. A "miniature" version of the instruction booklet which accompanies the classic Rider-Waite (Waite-Smith) Tarot deck designed by Pamela Coleman Smith and Arthur E. Waite. Staple a bit..... More
London: Vincent Stuart Ltd., 1962. Second edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xxxiv + 204pp. Black cloth with copper titling to spine and gilt device to upper board, index. Edition limited to 500 copies. A nicely produced facsimile reprint of the1893 edition of this alchemical classic. This work was first published in..... More
York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. Two Volumes in One. xiv + 680pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt device on front cover, blind rules, illustrations. Originally published in Latin in 1678, The Hermetic Museum was intended as a representative collection of the..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, ND [ 1912? ]. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 278pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt titling and pentagram design on upper board. Includes fold-out frontis of "The Wheel of Wisdom" and various tables in-text. The scarce first American edition of Waite's second..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, (1961). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xliv + 338pp. Contrasting red and black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Frontis, illustrations. The Book of Ceremonial Magic, is a revised and enlarged edition Waite's 'Book of Black Magic and of Pacts', which was first..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay Co., 1925. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 302pp. Original blue cloth with gold title, etc. to spine, appendix and index. R. A . Gilbert succinctly describes the book as "... a collection of lectures and papers delivered by Waite at various Masonic Research Lodges, Masters'..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ( 1923 ). Second Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 292 pp. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Top-edge red. List of authorities & index. A work originally published by Waite in 1891, shortly after he had joined the Hermetic Order..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii+ 416 pp. Purple cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine. Waite's significant study of Spiritualism. R. A. Gilbert observes that : "The book has been critized .... for rejecting a spiritual interpretation of pre-Renaissance alchemy, but..... More
