Huntington Station, NY: Thirteenth House, 1981. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Yellow stapled wrappers titled in black. An unusual 1980s printing of the text of a lecture on the notorious medieval French occultist and mass-murderer Gilles de Rais which Crowley was to have delivered to The Oxford University Poetry..... More
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Headland Press, 1999. Second Edition / First English Language Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 204 pp. Glossy white card covers with gilt lettering and borders, spine lettered in gilt. Text in both ENGLISH and Portuguese. The book includes a number of Motta's personal writings along with some of..... More
London: The O.T.O., 1942. First Edition thus. Original thick paper wrappers, with red titling to upper wrapper. viii + 24pp. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Printed at the Chiswick Press on fine mould-made paper. This edition limited to 200 signed and numbered copies. This copy is numbered (119), but NOT signed. Crowley's..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcovers. Small Quartos (10" x 7"). Original gilt ruled white cloth with gilt titles etc. on spine and covers, in facsimile of the bindings of the Deluxe issue of the First Edition of this set. Over 4000 pages, numerous color and..... More
Sydney: House 418 Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. Approx. 238 pages. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Edition limited to 200 copies (there were also 14 special numbered and inscribed subscriber issues and an "archival release" of 11 signed and hand-illustrated issues). A beautifully produced and illustrated journal created by members..... More
Sydney, Australia: House 418 / OTO, 2006. First Edition - Limited. Softcover. Quarto. 154pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Color and black and white illustrations, printed on high quality matte art paper. Edition limited to190 copies (there was also an artist's edition of 20 copies). A beautifully presented journal, produced by House..... More
Berkeley CA: Privately Printed [ J. Edward and Marlene Cornelius ], 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. viii + 210pp + ivpp. Original red series wrappers, black titling to cover and spine, illustrated front cover. Edition limited to 156 copies. The first edition of one of the most important issues of..... More
Berkeley, CA: Privately Printed [ J. Edward and Marlene Cornelius ], 1999. First Edition [ Limited ]. Softcover. Quarto. xxx, (ii), xii +190pp, (iipp adverts). Original red series wrappers, upper cover illustrated with b&w photo of Crowley, black titling to cover and spine, index. The first edition, limited to 156..... More
London: The O.T.O. / Samuel Weiser, 1937 / 1956. Second Printing, Second Issue. Hardcover. Quarto (10.5 x 7.75 inches), vi + 138pp, Red cloth with gilt A.: A.: seal on front board and gilt titling "The Equinox of the Gods" [between two sets of two rules] down spine. Colour plates..... More
![Item #70193 The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz [ The Bagh-i-Muattar ]....](/pictures/thumb/70193.jpg?v=1659655277)
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1991. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 138pp. Quarter red cloth w/ cream papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, red Arabic script across front cover. A facsimile reprint of one of Crowley's scarcest works - part homo-erotic parody, part mystical text. With an Introduction by..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1991. Second Weiser Printing. Softcover. Large Octavo. Glossy printed card wrappers. 288pp. Illustrations. The softcover edition: which is a revised "second printing" of the work originally published in hard cover limited edition in 1986. The volume contains a wealth of introductory and other documents..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small Quarto, xii + 288pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine (some copies of this edition were also bound in pink). Colour frontispiece which was omitted from some later printings, color and b&w plates. The first printing..... More
Boleskine: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1907. New edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii + 112pp . Original royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt on upper board. Crowley wrote of that the love lyrics in this collection: "treat love not as an object in itself, but on the contrary, as..... More
Cambridge: Elijah Johnson, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo, 94 pp. + 20pp. adverts. Original pale blue wrappers with darker blue title etc. to front wrapper. A collection of Crowley's early poetry, published in the same years as Crowley received "The Book of the Law." The poems are mostly reprinted from..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Merkur Publishing Inc., 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 286 pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, color illustration. The third volume of the magical trilogy, by Franz Bardon (1909-1958), the Czech-born Hermeticist. The other volumes are 'Initiation into Hermetics' and..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1980. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 110 pp. Hand-bound in brown faux leather, b&w frontispiece and illustrations, fold-out reduced-size magical calendar diagram at rear. The second edition of the first work in McLean's ground-breaking "Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks" series. "The Magical Calendar," designed..... More
![Item #70133 De Nigromancia [ attributed to ] Roger Bacon; Sloan MS. 3885 and Additional MS....](/pictures/thumb/70133.jpg?v=1656000340)
Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) + 100 pp. Original black cloth, with printed paper label to spine. Illustrations. Title page in red and black, initials printed in red, blue and black throughout. Attractive letterpress edition. De Nigromancia, or, Concerning the Black Art, is the translation..... More
London: Privately Printed, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Large quarto (12ins x 8.5ins), xviii + 79pp. (text printed and paginated on one side only). Tables, diagrams, etc. Although unstated the edition was limited to 200 copies, each of which is individually numbered. A grimoire purportedly based on material prepared by John..... More
![Item #70129 Auriferae Artis [Vol. I] Auriferae Artis, Quam Chemiam Vocant, Antiquissimi...](/pictures/thumb/70129.jpg?v=1656000338)
Basileæ: Apud Petrum Pernam, 1572. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. Vol. I: small, thick octavo. (6 3/8 x 4 inches). (xvi), 672, (iil)pp. Contemporary patterned brown calf, raised bands, gilt stamped leather title label reading "Auriferae Artis" and gilt decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers. Printers devices and decorative initials..... More
York Beach, Maine USA: Samuel Weiser Publishing, Inc., 1994. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xl + 266pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind rules. Frontis and b&w illustrations. Edition limited to 999 numbered copies this being number 213. The text of the first English translation of..... More
Prescott AZ: Corneliuspublications.com, 2022. Third, Printing [ First Paperback Edition, revised ]. Softcover. Octavo. 336pp + vi publisher's catalogue, b&w illustrated title page and in text illustrations. Edition limited to 111 copies. Includes an Introduction by Jerry Cornelius, and also Appendixes entitled: "The Scarlet Women", "On the Scarlet Woman" and..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. (xII) + 332 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; color frontis, illustrations, index. A reprint of the final revised edition of Case's now-famous study of the Rosicrucian Initiation system with particular reference to the Kabbalah. Case first..... More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 240 pp. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine, index of Biblical quotations, general index. The first edition of this new annotated transation of three significant books of "The Zohar": Book of the Mystery; The..... More
New York, NY: Henry Schuman, 1949. First US Edition. Hardcover, Octavo, x + 246 pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind stamped device to front cover, frontispiece, b/w illustrations, index. A well illustrated, historical overview. The author, F. Sherwood Taylor, was a Director of the [London] Science..... More
Boulder, CO: Archive Press and Communications, 1999. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 554pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt illustration on upper board, red marker ribbon, frontis, illustrations by Julian Champagne. The identity of the master alchemist who wrote under the pseudonym of Fulcanelli is..... More
