New York: A. L. Burt, 1904. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 524pp. + 8pp. ads. Original blue cloth lettered & decorated on spine & front board. B/w frontis. portrait. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds..... More
London: Methuen, 1923. Eleventh edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 346pp. + 10pp. ads. Original brown cloth lettered & decorated in black on spine & front board. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 604pp. Original gray cloth lettered in silver on spine & front board, silver & red fleur-de-lys design on front board. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath..... More
New York: A. L. Burt, ND. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 324pp. + 4pp. ads. Red cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Top-edge gilt. B/w frontis. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan, The..... More
New York: A. L. Burt, ND. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 324pp. + 6pp. ads. Original cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Top-edge dyed yellow. B/w frontis. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 432pp. Blue cloth lettered & decorated in white & gilt on spine & boards. A novel by Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction. Corelli's novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ND. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 604pp. Original green cloth lettered in black on spine & front board, black-&-orange flowerpot design on front board. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds..... More
London: Methuen, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Rust coloured cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Marie Corelli, 1855-1924, was an enormously popular British writer of often occult-themed fiction, whose novels such as Ardath, A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan, The Soul of Lilith, and..... More
New York: George H. Richmond, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 400pp. Blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & silver on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & plates. Top-edge-gilt. A 19th century quasi-Utopian novel which uses an earth-man's visit to an idealised (and more than a little..... More
The Hague / Paris: Mouton, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index & bibliography. 'Studies in English Literature, Vol. LX.' Tiny spot on rear board, minor foxing to endpapers, tiny fore-edge nicks to pages 17/18 & 19/20, otherwise a tight, clean VG copy in..... More
New York: Putnam, 1980. Reprint, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 186pp. Light blue papered boards lettered in dark blue on spine. Horror novel. Page-edges lightly toned, spine ends a little rubbed, else a clean, tight VG+ copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket scuffed & rubbed, short top-edge tear to..... More
London: John Murray, 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 112pp. Green cloth boards lettered in black on spine, black lute design on front board. Bibliography. In the 'Wisdom of the East Series.' Top-edge foxed, tiny bump to top-corner of front board, else a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket..... More
New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 368pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Bibliography & index. B/w illustrations. Biography of the wealthy American ex-patriate dilletante and publisher Harry Crosby, founder of the Black Sun Press. Hint of foxing to page-edges..... More
New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 236pp. Original cloth lettered in blue on spine & front board. Bibliography & index. Spine ends slightly chafed, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, pen underlining to text & marginal marks to about 32 pages..... More
Thame, England: Mandrake Press, Ltd., 1991. Limited - First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 48pp. White cloth with gilt device on upper board. Frontis. Edition Limited to 350 numbered copies. This copy SIGNED by Keith Richmond on the title page. From the Introduction "Of the many curious and obscure Crowley works..... More
Ontario, Canada: Gadfly Productions, ND [ 2003 ]. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 116pp. + iv pp adverts. Cheaply produced in blue stapled wrappers illustrated cover by Holly Bodreau, and lettered in black on upper cover. A collection of six Crowley's 'Simon Iff' in America detective stories comprising: "A Dangerous..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Black Moon Publishing, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 36pp. Gray stapled wrappers. A reprint of a Simon Iff detective story. that was first published in "The International," September 1917. From the library of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper. Light browning to spine and edges over covers..... More
London: Neptune Press, 1976. Limited edition, Facsimile edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp. Stapled oversized wrappers, Edition limited to 500 hand- numbered copies, this being 424. Reproduces in one volume three slender books of verse first published pseudonymously by Crowley in 1905 and 1907. Each has a black and white frontis, after..... More
NP [ Oxford, England ]: Black Lodge Publishing [ Mandrake Press ], 1991. First Edition Thus - Second Issue. Softcover. Octavo. Not paginated [20pp.] Black-printed cream stapled card covers, text on cream paper. Although not stated this is the second issue of this booklet - the first issue was in..... More
San Francisco, CA: Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), 176 pp. with b/w ills. Flexible clear plastic front cover over printed paper cover sheet, dark blue plastic rear cover, secured together with a black plastic back strip. Hand-colored endsheets. An early..... More
London: Pocket Publications Ltd. / Hulton Press, August 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. Eccentrically paginated, approximately 104pp. [ x + 85-168pp + xi - xx.] Color illustrated wrappers, extensively illustrated in b&w. A single issue of this popular monthly magazine which includes the first publication of a strange little..... More
London: The English Review, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo, approx. 184 pages (paginated i - xxiv, 289 - 432, xxv - 40). Original printed blue wrappers. The issue includes the first appearance in print of Crowley's short story "The Stratagem" - (pp. 339 - 351). Also includes "Vin Ordinaire"..... More
London: The English Review, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 528pp. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered red title-label on spine. A bound edition of The English Review, Volume XVIII (comprising four issues: August, September, October & November 1914). Bound without advertisements or wrappers. Aleister Crowley contributes a...... More
London: Wieland & Co., 1911. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 46pp (+ 4pp. adverts) Paper covered boards with striking tri-colour illustration. A collection of poems addressed to Victor Neuburg and other Crowley intimates. It includes an Introduction & Dedication by Crowley and a poem by Victor Neuburg. The author..... More
Berkeley, California: Red Flame / J. Edward and Marlene Cornelius 2001 (First Edition), 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. xiv + 212pp + (ii) First Edition limited to 156 copies. Original printed wrappers. In this issue the Corneliuses have assembled and reprinted an astonishing number of contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts..... More
