West Chester, PA: Chysalis Books / Swedenborg Foundation, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xiv + 112pp. Illustrated softcovers, b&w frontis and illustrations. From the publisher's blurb: "Angels live in communities, wear clothes, and have no wings! So said Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and seer who, for the last twenty-seven years..... More
Blauvelt, NY: Rudolph Steiner Publications, 1988. Second Printing of This Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 86pp & xiv + 220pp (ipp advert). b&w illustrations. B&w frontis, appendixes, index. Facsimile reprints of two complete titles in one volume which comprises a study of the Prophecies of Paracelsus and a brief biography and study..... More
London: East-West Publications, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 336pp + 10 page photo insert. Original deep red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, appendices, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Fuller's fresh study of Saint Germain probes little known areas of 18th century political and..... More
London: MacMillan, 1974. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 322pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc to spine, notes, appendices and index. A study of Yeats's involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its effect on his life and writings. Drawn from - and reproducing -..... More
Berkeley, CA: Privately published, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 386pp.+ vi adverts. Series scarlet cloth with gilt titling to spine. Edition limited to 200 copies signed by Jerry Cornelius. From the publisher: "J. Edward Cornelius continues his much-needed memoir series about being a member of Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis..... More
Chicago, IL: Hermetic Publishing Company, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 186pp + i advert. Fine red cloth with gilt title, etc. to front cover, blind rules on front cover, "marbled" endpapers, red top edge. Dr. A. S. Raleigh, was apparently the "Official Scribe" of a group called "The Hermetic..... More
NP [ Canada ]: Macmillan Co. of Canada, ND [ 1976 ]. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 322pp. Original blue cloth with silver title, etc. to spine, frontis and 11 b&w plates, end notes, list of contributors, Errata opposite dedication page. A collection of important essays on Yeats..... More
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Los Angeles, CA: The Church of Light, ND [ Copyright dates 1938 - 1962 ]. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Small octavo. 416pp. Series black textured cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. One b/w diagram. A study of different aspects of esoteric Freemasony by C. C. Zain, (AKA Elbert Benjamine -..... More
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Los Angeles, CA: The Church of Light, (1937-1967). Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Small octavo. 384pp, xviii. Series black textured cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. B/w diagrams. A study of esoteric psychology / positive thinking / techniques of mind-power by by C. C. Zain, (AKA Elbert Benjamine - 1882 -1951)..... More
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Los Angeles, CA: The Church of Light, (1938 - 1966). Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Small octavo. 384pp, xviii. Series black textured cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. B/w diagrams. A study of the alternative / esoteric healing and occult perspectives on the body, disease and medicine by C. C. Zain..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Wizard's Book Shelf, Secret Doctrine Reference Series, 1977. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 322pp. Gilt decorated black faux leather with gilt title to spine and upper board, index and b&w illustrations. A facsmile reprint of the 1876 edition of this classic work by the English Assyriologist, George Smith, (1840-1876)..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1934. Third edition - reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 124pp, iv publisher's adverts. Navy coth with gilt lettering. The third edition of Westcott's study of the Kabbalah. The book was first published as a small, thin quarto in 1890, Westcott then revised and expanded it considerably..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, LTD, 1958. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 312pp. Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, three b&w charts at rear. Dion Fortune's popular study of the Tree of Life and the Qabalah, one of the more straightforward and accessible studies of the subject..... More
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1976. Second Impression thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Red cloth with gilt title etc to spine, b&w chart. The second impression of the Weiser facsimile of the 1930 first edition. "The Training and Work of an Initiate" gives details "of the preparation for and degrees of true..... More
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New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1971. Thirteenth Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. 210pp. Black cloth with gilt titling, etc. to spine. Written by Dion Fortune (1891-1946) one of the twentieth century's most famous occultists: a former member of the Golden Dawn who founded her own order, The Society of the Inner..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xii + 318pp (+ viiipp. publisher's catalogue). Original green cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spine, blind borders to front panel. Index. The first edition of this collection of essays on the folklore of the British Isles from an anthropological..... More
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 312pp. Bright blue cloth with decorative red borders and gilt solar/star design on upper board, gilt titling and decorative red borders to spine, index. Oddly the book was also published - perhaps simultaneously - with the different title: "The Kabbala..... More
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1882. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo, iv +74pp (+ 24pp publisher's catalogue). Deep maroon cloth with gilt title and author on spine, publisher's note bound in at page 1 explaining the delayed production of this volume. An offprint from the Transactions of the Royal..... More
San Diego, CA: The Gnostic Press, 1918. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo, xvi + 132pp. ii adverts. Original red cloth with gilt titling etc. to spine and front board, blind rules on both covers. Fold-out. A reprint of the 1676 edition with additions, The editor of this 1918 edition..... More
London: Aquarian Press, 1967. New Impression. Hardcover. Small octavo. 192pp. Original green cloth spine with gilt title, over cream cloth boards, navy endpages. Written by Dion Fortune (1891-1946) who was one of the twentieth century's most famous occultists: a former member of the Golden Dawn who founded her own order..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1972. Second Edition [ First US Edition ]. Hardcover. Octavo. 316pp (+ ii adverts: reviews of works by Dion Fortune). Yellow cloth with black patterning, black title, etc. to spine, top edge blue tinted blue. A nice hardover edition of the novel that Dion..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 312pp. Grey cloth boards, with blue panels and gilt titling. Stated first edition. "Sixty-one stories of cosmic forces, deities, angels and demons, giants and heroes, distilled from the Bible and other ancient Aramaic and Hebrew sources and analyzed..... More
Berkeley CA: Thames and Hudson, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick Large Quarto (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches). xx + 320pp. Fine two toned cloth - green spine over black boards, color illustratied photo-panel inset into upper board, white titling to spine, colour and b&w illustrations, index. A massive, lavishly-illustrated..... More
Rutland VG / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Thick Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 inches). 624pp. Original brilliant red cloth lavishly illustrated on upper cover in gilt crane design, black titling to upper board, black titling and illustration to spine, over 700 illustrations including 16 in..... More
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San Diego, CA: Wizard's Book Shelf, 1981. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated. [176pp]. ii, 229- 403pp. Yellow faux leather boards with blue titling & device to upper cover and spine, index. A volume from the Secret Doctrine Reference Series which reprints works which were important to Mme. Blavatsky, and..... More
