London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. iv +295pp + ipp advert. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. The second edition of the second volume of the two volume set entitled "Four Mystery Plays." The volume is complete in itself, and comprises the...
London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 136pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. The first publication of nine lectures, all related to education including "The Waldorf School", given at Manchester College, Oxford, from August 16th to the 25th, 1922. Access to...
London: L. N. Fowler, 1915. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. i advert, 124pp. + ivpp adverts. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. The first UK edition (1915), of this unusual study of telepathy and thought transference which was originally published by the Order of the...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 140pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. 130 color illustrations, many full-page. A book published to accompany the "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" exhibition of 1999 /...
St. Louis, MO: Privately printed, May, 1923. Third Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 336pp + xivpp testimonials + ipp advert. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc, to cover and spine. Charles F. Haanel (1866 – 1949) was a noted American "New Thought" author and a successful businessman, who was best known for...
London: Rudolph Steiner Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 51pp. Grey wrappers with matching cloth spine, lettered in black. Reproduced from a typescript, text on rectos only. A useful reference guide, but not a technical bibliography. Wrappers a bit rubbed with a few light marks, edges chafed, corners bumped and...
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, xxxii+ 600 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations, printed endpapers, double-column printing, analytical list of games, index. A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the Tarot, with a detailed survey...
New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. xiv, 276pp. Endnotes, references, index. From the publisher: "Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples...
New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Reprint. Softcover. Large thick octavo. Two volumes in one. Eccentrically paginated. xxii+ 252pp, vi + 406pp, lxxxii b&w plates. Index, glossary. A facsimile of the 1905 first edition of this massive reference. From the publisher: "Edith Diehl (1876-1953) was one of the world's foremost practitioners...
London: George Routledge, ND [ circa 1912-1913 ]. First "Cheap" Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 96pp. Original wrappers, illustrated and lettered in green on upper board and spine. Unflattering b&w frontisportrait of H. P. Blavatsky with the imprinted caption "the greatest imposter in history" beneath it. A critique of the Theosophical...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. lxii + 740pp. Yellow cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Color fold-out frontis. Index. Fold-out plate at rear. The well known and popular Richard Wilhelm / Cary Baynes edition of the I Ching, with foreword by Jung. Light shelf rubbing, edges a little...
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1952. Second Printing. Hardcovers. Large octavos. Vol. 1: xliv + 398pp.; Vol. 2: 376pp. Original black cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt designs to front boards. Bollingen Series XIX. Tissue-paper frontis. & fold-out plate in Vol.1. The second printing of the First English edition of the...
New York: Gotham Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 352pp. Black cloth spine over red papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine. This copy boldy INSCRIBED and SIGNED with her initials by Curott on the half title page. The author also wrote: "Book of Shadows. A Modern...
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Deluxe hardcover edition. Fine maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine and device to upper board. Brown endpapers. Title page and in-text illustrations, bibliography. A limited edition of 250 copies. In this second volume of a four...
New York: New York University Press, [ 2003 ]. Paperback edition. Softcover. Large octavo. vi + 372pp. Notes and index, with b&w illustrations. From the publisher: "Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke offers a unique perspective on far right neo-Nazism viewing it as a new form of Western religious heresy. He paints a frightening...
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xix + 180pp + vpp maps, 29 figs., 17 tables, xxxi plates. Original brown cloth illustrated in black on upper cover, titled in black on spine. Columbia Studies in Archeology and Ethnology, Vol. III. An archeological study of...
New York: Vintage Books, 1982. First Paperback edition. Softcover. Octavo. 326pp + ipp. Illustrated covers, b&w illustrations. "In the autumn of 1968, while hiking in an isolated part of the Nevada Colin Fletcher ...came upon a cave that contained what appeared to be a man's possessions, encrusted with the dust...
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1946. First Edition - Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 122pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations, bibliography and index. A now widely rejected study in which Weidenreich, a well known anthropologist, outlines his then current (circa 1946), theory on the...
Northamptom, MA: Mad Love Publishing, 1991, 1993, 1995, & 1996. First Editions - two second printings and two first printings. Four softcover graphic novels in the "From Hell" series. Volume one and Volume three are second printings, volume seven and volume ten are stated first printings. All four have just...
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 346pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, red endpapers, index. From the publisher: "In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by...
Zurich: Verlag Psychosophische Gesellschaft, ND (Circa 1965). German Language edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 232pp. Original yellow printed paper-covered boards, with plain black cloth backstrip, b&w illustrations. A translation in German of Crowley's "Eight Lectures on Yoga." The text is widely regarded as one of Crowley's best works, and is certainly.....
England: Dave Rankine, 1987 - 1988. First Edition. Softcovers. 3 issues. Quartos. (8.25 x 11.75 inches). 8pp, 12pp, 12pp. White stapled wrappers illustrated and titled in black. Three issues of this pagan & magick journal edited by well-known British occult writer and practitioner David Rankine and Anne Barrowcliffe. Aspects on...
Sweden: Looking Glass Press, 1995. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 198pp. The first edition of this introduction to Crowleyan magick by a well-known contemporary British practitioner. Light rubbing to covers, pages lightly toned - overall a tight, clean VG+ copy.
London: Starfire Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Pictorial covers. Sewn wraps, 78 pp. + advert., extensively illustrated, Official Organ of Kenneth Grant's Typhonian OTO. Includes a study of Crowley's 'Vision and the Voice' and Enochian Magick by Michael Staley, 'The Mark of the Beast,' by Gareth Hewitson-May (author of...
London: Starfire Publishing, 1994. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (8 x 11inches) Sewn printed wrappers, 198 pp. + advert.. Striking pictorial covers in purple with black print and illustration. Official Organ of Kenneth Grant's Typhonian OTO, one of the most scarce and interesting editions of this journal. Includes substantial articles on...
