Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2012. "Special" edition (deluxe edition). Hardcover. Small octavo. 66pp. Full black leather with elaborate gilt sigil on upper board, textured endpapers, ribbon marker. Illustrated title page, bibliography. The "SPECIAL (deluxe) EDITION" which is limited to 77 hand numbered copies. "Chumbley traces the metamorphosis of..... More
Richmond Vista, CA: Three Hands Press, 2012. First Edition. Boards. Hardcover. Small octavo. 66pp. Illustrated title page, bibliography. Shimmering brown cloth with elaborate gilt sigil on upper board, textured endpapers. First edition, limited to 231 hand numbered copies. "Chumbley traces the metamorphosis of the toad-bone amulet from its beginning as..... More
Chelmsford, UK: Xoanon, 1992. (First Edition - Limited, Signed). Softcover. Octavo (9" x 6"). 362pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Numerous black and white plates and diagrams, glossary. The true first edition of the late Andrew Chumbley's "The Azoetia," limited to 300 numbered copies. There is also a very small HAND..... More
Richmond Vista, CA, USA: Three Hands Press [ Xoanon ], 2011. Deluxe limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 152pp. The "deluxe" edition, limited to 144 hand-numbered copies bound in quarter morocco with beige cloth boards and matching cloth covered slipcase. The Opuscula Magica treats in four volumes the short exegetical works on..... More
Hercules, CA, USA: Xoanon Publishing, Midwinter 2008 [ 2009 ]. Second Edition - Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Ocatavo. 88 pages. Bound in full midnight blue goatskin with raised bands and gilt titling to spine and gilt "Point" to upper board. Black cloth slipcase. Blue marbled endpapers. B&W illustrations. Edition-deluxe limited to..... More
Seattle, WA: Aeon Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover, large 8vo, 76 pp, illustrations. An occult journal with Crowleyan leanings. Articles on "Medicinal and Magical Uses of Plants", "Lemurian Magick", "The Rite of the Naked Fire" and others. Hint of rubbing to wrappers. Otherwise VG... More
Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications Inc., 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xii + 276 pp. Quarter orange papered boards and beige papered boards with gilt titling to spine; b&w illustrations; index, bibliography. Very light bumping to edges. Otherwise, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket..... More
London: Ebury, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 214 pp. Maroon cloth with silver titling to spine; appendix. The true story of a modern day "witch trial" of a young Scottish woman, Carole Compton. Edges and corners very lightly bumped, page edges a little thumbed. Otherwise, a tight and bright VG+..... More
Arvada, CO: DB Publishing [Darkerwood Publishing Group], 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 228pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. From the publisher: "A complete ritual for the Demonolatry Adept. This five month Demonolatry specific ritual is a pathworking journey for the adept practitioner. Author cautions: This..... More
NP [ South Carolina ]: Nephilim Press, 2012 [ 2013 ]. Limited leather edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 150pp. DELUXE edtion. Full scarlet leather, upper board decorated in blind, blind titling to spine, scarlet endpapers, ribbon marker. Smyth sewn. Sigils and illustrations. Bibliography. Edition limited to 200 and hand numbered copies which..... More
NP [ South Carolina ]: Nephilim Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 150pp. Scarlet cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sigil on upper board, scarlet endpapers. Smyth sewn. Sigils and illustrations. Bibliography. Edition limited to 450 hand numbered copies. A grimoire for the advanced practitioner of Necromancy by..... More
London: Neopantheist Society, ND ( circa 1990 ). First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 36pp. Glossy gold stapled wrappers, upper cover printed and illustrated in green. Contents include: Editorial, letters, book reviews, " Religion and Esotericism in an Open Society" by Al Ewigkeit; "Juxtaposition" (anon); "A Satanist's Diary" by Hugo L'Estrange; "The..... More
London: Neopantheist Society, ND ( circa 1985 ). First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 40pp. Glossy stapled navy blue wrappers, upper cover printed and illustrated in silver. Contents include: Editorial, letters, book reviews, and essays: "Urgent Alert USA: A threat to religious freedom. Stop Press reprint from Spirit Within News"; "A Satanists..... More
New York: Wiley Interscience, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 458pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Ten detailed case histories of spirit possession, written by anthropologists, and ranging in approach from psychoanalytic to social anthropological. None are from voodoo cultures as such, but many bear a...... More
New York, NY: MacMillan Company, 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 210 pp. Original red cloth with black titling to spine, index. Light rubbing to lower edges, a bit of browning to pages, otherwise a tight and unmarked VG+ copy in VG - dust jacket. (Dust jacket chafed, rubbed at..... More
![The Goetia [ The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King ]. Aleister CROWLEY](/pictures/thumb/39764.jpg?v=1461369419)
United Kingdom: Hell Fire Club, ND ( 2004 ). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small folio, eccentrically paginated, but approx. 94pp. Quarter black goatskin with black buckram boards, printed paper label to upper board. Marbled endpapers, coloured page edges. This edition limited to 72 numbered copies - this copy not numbered..... More
London: Thorsons, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 286pp. List of resources, bibliography, index. An introduction to modern neo-Paganism by Vivianne Crowley, author, lecturer, and Wiccan High Priestess, who has been involved in both the Alexandrian and Gardnerian traditions. From the library of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper, with..... More
Isle of Mann: Athol Press, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Small format paperback. 152 pp. Illustrated covers, b&w illustrations. The scarce first book by the "Queen of the Sabbat and the Highpriest of the Sheffield Coven of Witches" Patricia Crowther (b. 1927) and her then-husband Arnold Crowther (1909-1974). Patricia Crowther was..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. xvi + 218pp + adverts. B&w illustrations, glossary, suggested reading list, index. From Llewellyn: "Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense..... More
Napoli / Naples: Pesso Philippo Raimondi, 1789. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (iv) (i) - (xxxii) (1)- (16),1-230pp. a–b8 (a1+*2) A–O8 P4. Contemporary vellum, sprinkled edges. A significant early work on Vampires, the first edition of which predated R. P. Dom Augustin Calmet's "Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des démons..... More
Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Slim octavo. 100pp. Beige printed wrappers. Appendix, bibliography, index. A scholarly study - with contemporary documents - of the trial of Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny who was said to have poisoned three husbands and enchanted a fourth, before..... More
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 298 pp. Quarter purple cloth w/ purple papered boards, silver title, etc. to spine, biblio and index. "A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic" This copy inscribed by the author..... More
NP [ The Netherlands ]: Aeon Sophia Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Full black leather with silver sigil and lettering to upper board and spine, appendices, tables and bibliography. Black and white illustrations & one page full-color. Text in black and red, marbled endpapers. Edition limited to 50..... More
New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 178pp. Light grey composite marbled boards lettered in black on spine. A translated selection from the 'Dictionnaire Infernal' by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy (1793-1887). The original work remains one of the best known European works..... More
London: Presbyterian Book Depot, 1961. Second edition, revised. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi] + 210pp. Yellow papered boards lettered in black on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & illustrations & photos. Frontis and dust jacket front panel illustration by J. D. Okae. Bibliography, appendix, notes & index. A scholarly study on..... More
