New York, NY: Occult Research Press, ND [ 1955 ]. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 330pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, b&w illustrations. Occult Research Press was the first imprint of Samuel Weiser Publishing and is one of the first books published by..... More

Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1981. Second, Revised and Enlarged. Softcover. Small thin paperback. 64pp. Several b/w illustrations, appendixes and reading list. Richardson says of this volume: "This is an attempt to write a simple book on magic", which includes chapters; on: Magic & Symbols; Magical Philosophy; The Cross and the..... More

Chicago: The Aries Press, 1945. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 154 pp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt publisher's device on upper board. One of Regardie's best known works, written by him when still in London in 1936. Although the subtitle indicates that it is primarily..... More

New York: Helix Press, Garrett Publications, 1965. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv +274 pp. Navy cloth with gilt titling, b&w plates and illustrations, index. A study of the concealed meanings, alchemical references, etc., in the somewhat obscure second part of 'Faust' by a student of Jung's. Just a hint..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 618pp. Black publisher's cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations, notes and index. The first major study of Jewish alchemical study and practice - from antiquity to the nineteenth century. A history and source book of an..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio. xviii + 314 pp. Quarter brown cloth w/ gilt cream cloth boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations, color plates. Limited edition of one-thousand (1000) copies. Extensive biographical and bibliographical descriptions of 164 books and 245 manuscripts..... More

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First US Edition. Hardcover, Octavo, xxiv + 328 pp, Original brown textured cloth boards with red titling. Illustrations. Color frontis. A scholarly yet entertaining study of alchemy by John Read (1884–1963), a renowned researcher with a longtime interest in the history of chemistry..... More

London: John Murray, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 312 pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt hexagram on front cover. Top edge gilt, b/w illustrations. One of the first English-language biographies of Paracelsus (Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim: 1493 - 1541), who at the..... More

Edmonds, WA: Holmes Publishing Group, 1999. First Edition. Softcover.Octavo. 48pp. Staple bound thick navy blue wrappers illustrated and title in white. The first edition of No. 20 of the Golden Dawn Studies Series which commenced with the Golden Dawn Cipher Manuscript, and developed into a series of monographs edited etc...... More

Bristol: Privately printed, [1994]. Softcover. Quarto. (126pp.) Text, diagrams etc. printed on rectos of pages only: pagination (i) 1 - 60, (ii). A4 sized clip bound blue wrappers illustrated & lettered in black, b&w diagrams. Text and diagrams printed from computer generated typescript. Two separate Tree of Life illustrations are..... More

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 338pp.+ 16pp photo insert at center. Deep purple cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated in b&w. The first edition of this excellent biography of the controversial Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934)..... More

London: Privately Printed, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 28pp. A4 sized stapled yellow wrappers, printed in black, b&w illustrations. A commemorative programme produced to accompany a performance of the plays "The Beloved of Hathor" by Florence Farr and "The Shrine of The Golden Hawk" by Olivia Shakespear at the Rudolf..... More

New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, 1974. First US Edition. Hardcover.Octavo. xxii + 296pp. Original red cloth, gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations, appendixes, fold-out, index. The first American edition of this unusual Indian study of the literature of Yeats, and its relation to his occult beliefs and practices. Interestingly the..... More