New York: Scripta Mathematica, 1935. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 122pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Index. A selection of essays, with some alterations, that had been published previously in American Scholar, Scripta Mathematica and The Yale Law Journal , which includes..... More
London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1977. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, b&w illustrations. Eight Lectures on Eurythmy, Steiner's musical art form, given at Dornach 19 to 27 February 1924 (Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer). Cloth a bit..... More
Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophical Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 210pp. Light blue cloth gilt lettering on spine and upper board, gilt illustration to upper board, references and index. The first edition of this collection of translations of Steiner's "mantric verse". The selection from Wahrspruchworte are in parallel..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 176pp. Maroon cloth spine over cream boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Stated first edition of this entertaining & interesting memoir of four years commencing at age eleven, which Peters spent at the Institute for Harmonious Development of..... More
New York: Hermitage House, 1955. Reissue. Hardcover. Small octavo. 166pp. Beige cloth spine over black boards, black lettering to spine. A novel by P. D. Ouspensky ( 1878 - 1947 ) a well-known mathematician, author, and mystic - who became a student of G. I. Gurdjieff in 1915, and whose..... More
New York: The Hedgehog Press, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 98pp. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine, b&w illustrations. Born in Moscow in 1878, Ouspensky became a well-known mathematician, author, and journalist. He wrote his major study on the psychology of higher consciousness, "Tertium Organum: A Key..... More
London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1975. Second impression of the Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Original light blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w in-text illustrations. A series of lectures by Steiner on the basis of the methods of education employed by his Waldorf schools. Spine ends and extreme..... More
New York, NY: Anthroposophic Press, Inc., 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 308pp. Orange cloth with white title, etc. to spine, blind stamped device on upper cover. Comprises lectures delivered by Steiner in different European cities throughout the years 1912 and 1913 dealing with the experiences of the..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 280pp (ii adverts). Original orange cloth with black titling to spine. A delightfully lurid and breathless romp through the secret societies and cults of 1920s and 1930s London, by Eliot O'Donnell (1872 - 1965), the Irish author who became famous for..... More
London: The Author, Privately printed, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Booklet. viii + 30pp + iipp b&w plates. Original stapled wrappers, lettered and bordered in red. B/w frontispiece & several b/w plates, appendices. An investigation into "the Bromley poltergeist" by Manfred Cassirer (1920 – 2003) a British Egyptologist, parapsychologist and author..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, September, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 396pp. Illustrated covers, b&w illustrations, appendixes and maps, glossary and index. Number 72 in the series: Anthropological Papers of The American Museum of Natural History. In it the authors describe & analyze of Indian ghost beliefs, ghost illness, and..... More
Chicago, IL: Urantia Foundation, 1981. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Small thick quarto. lxvi + 2098pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Includes 4 page publisher's prospectus to accompany the book. From the publisher: "The Urantia Book, first published by Urantia Foundation in 1955, presents us with the..... More
NP [USA ]: Blue Equinox Oasis. O.T.O., 2019. Revised and (much) expanded edition. Softcover. Octavo. x + 394pp, b&w illustrations, appendixes. This copy SIGNED by Richard Kaczynski on the title page. In the 2006 first edition of 'Panic in Detroit', Kaczynski, explores the ups and downs of Thelema in Detroit..... More
London: Troy Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated. [ 140pp + xxviii full page photographic plates ], Fine black cloth boards, with gilt toad device to upper board and gilt lettering to spine, b&w in-text illustrations, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "The Black Toad explores potent examples..... More
London: Macdonald & Co., 1971. First edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 414pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Frontispiece, illustrations. The 1971 revised edition of Symond's biography of Crowley. Published twenty years after the first edition, this reissue reflected the changed times, and as the blurb on..... More
Dorset, UK: Kiblah, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Periodical. Eccentrically paginated. (approx. 45pp). Stapled textured navy covers with blue cloth backstrip on spine, gilt embellishments and titling to covers, b&w illustrations. Issue no. 6 of the British Thelemically-orientated journal which was produced between the years 1988 to 1994 as the..... More
Somerset, UK: Kiblah, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Periodical. Eccentrically paginated. (approx. 45pp). Stapled textured navy covers with blue cloth backstrip on spine, gilt embellishments and titling to covers, b&w illustrations. Issue no. 3 of the British Thelemically-orientated journal which was produced between the years 1988 to 1994 as the..... More
Somerset, UK: Kiblah, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Periodical. Eccentrically paginated. (approx. 45pp). Stapled textured navy covers with blue cloth backstrip on spine, gilt embellishments and titling to covers, b&w illustrations. Issue no. 2 of the British Thelemically-orientated journal which was produced between the years 1988 to 1994 as the..... More
Durham, England: Acumen Publishing, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 238pp. Illustrated papered boards. Appendix, Notes, bibliography and index. From the cover: "Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) is one of the most famous and significant authors in the history of western esotericism. Crowley has been long ignored by scholars..... More
New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Reprint. Softcover. Large Octavo, x + 470pp. "An exploration into the life and works of a modern mystic, occultist, poet, mountaineer, and bisexual adventurer known to his contemporaries as 'the Great Beast.'" Although largely overshadowed by Richard Kaczynski's admirable "Perdurabo" and other recent..... More
London: Fulgur Ltd., 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 176pp. Fine deep blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, upper board illustrated in black. B&w frontispiece. Well illustrated throughout in both colour and b&w, endnotes. Printed on premium 135gsm Italian paper. Illustrated dust jacket. Edition limited to 1,560 copies. From the publisher..... More
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 192pp. Black textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. A facsimile offset reprint of Stephensen's original 1936 "strident polemic" on Australian culture and identity. Several b/w illustrations after the introduction by Munro, the biographer of P. R. Stephensen. Stephensen..... More
Oxford: Mandrake, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 216pp. Cover art by R.T. Cole. Bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Crowley a Modern Master is neither an account of his life, not a straightforward presentation of his teaching, but an attempt to place him clearly in the context of modern ideas..... More
USA: Privately published, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. viii + 120pp, [viii]. B&w illustration. A work of fiction featuring a magician who is loosely based on Aleister Crowley. A little light rubbing to covers - else a tight, clean near Fine copy. More
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 174pp. Bibliography & index. Despite Wilson's stature, this would have to be one of the least popular of the many biographies of Crowley, although it is still interesting reading for those wanting another different perspective on the Beast. Covers a bit..... More
