York Beach, Maine USA: The Teitan Press, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 64pp. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine. Frontispiece & black and white illustrations. Edition limited to 666 numbered copies. Rosaleen Norton is now largely remembered as "the Witch of Kings Cross:" the Australian artist and..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Commercial Printing House, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 278pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, gilt embellishment to upper board, b&w illustrations. The first edition of this work of occult fiction: "A story of India and Tibet, revolving around a magic necklace which..... More
Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, ND (ca. 1890s). Reprint. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 548pp (+ 16pp publisher's catalogue). Original green cloth with gilt titling and decorations to spine. Comprises a short biographical introduction plus some 67 short stories by the renowned American author of the mysterious and macabre. Boards somewhat rubbed and..... More
London: The Equinox, [1910]. First Edition thus. Softcover, Small Octavo viii + 164 pp [+ 2 pp of adverts], Original red wrappers with black titling, etc to spine and front wrapper. Raffalovich was one of Crowley's closest friends and disciples until the inevitable falling out. Crowley thought very highly of..... More
New York, NY: Inner Traditions International, 1978. Second Softcover Printing. Softcover. Large octavo. 344pp + iv adverts. Printed card covers, b&w illustrations, footnotes. The first of two volumes on the life and initiation of the fictional Her-Bak. From the publisher: "In these fictional accounts, the wisdom of Ancient Egypt is..... More
Suffolk, England: Neville Spearman, September, 1978. Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 248 pp. Grey cloth with gilt titling to spine. The supposedly true diary of a Victorian boy born with psychic and clairvoyant abilities. Very light rubbing and bumping to spine ends, corners, edges. Overall, a tight and bright VG+..... More
York Beach, ME: Teitan Press, 2012. First US Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxx + 98pp. Quality red cloth with gilt Sri Yantra design on upper board, and gilt titling to spine. Frontis, index. Edition limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. The Secrets of the Kaula Circle was not only one of the..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 8 x 11 sewn wraps. 190pp. + ii plates. Pictorial covers. Extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. The first issue of Starfire appeared in 1986, and it has been an occasional Journal of Kenneth Grant's "Typhonian Order" ever since. Dedicated to..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd, 2006. First Edition - Deluxe Issue. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. Bound in fine deep red cloth with white titling and black and white embellishments, housed in matching clothbound slipcase. Colour frontis. The deluxe hardcover edition, SIGNED by the author and limited to 81 hand-numbered copies, this being..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Schors, 2004. First Edition, First printing. Softcover. Large octavo. 145pp, vi adverts. Front cover illustrated with photo of Crowley, b&w illustrations, appendixes, bibliography. DUTCH text. The first Dutch language biography of Aleister Crowley - appears well written. Includes a short chapter on Kenneth Anger. From the library Clive..... More
USA: Privately published, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. viii + 120pp, [viii]. B&w illustration. A work of fiction featuring a magician who has an unlikely encounter with Aleister Crowley in wartime Dresden. A little light shelf-rubbing, light erasure on first blank, else a tight, clean near Fine copy. Appears "as..... More
Dublin, NH: Yankee Books, 1989. Second Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo. 288pp. Blue cloth spine over papered boards, gilt letting to spine, b&w illustrations, author biographies. A collection of classic New England tales of ghosts and hauntings. Includes stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Sarah Orne Jewett and Edith Wharton. Light overall..... More
London: Duckworth, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Blue-grey cloth with black titling etc. to spine. An about VG copy (lacks dust jacket). A genuinely rare humorous novel in which an English society lady employs a local witch to work a spell on her house guests. The witch has many..... More
