Geneva: Nagel, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 60pp. Original cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front. Bibliography & index. Color & b/w illustrations and many tipped in plates and fold-out page of illustrations. Slight bump to outer bottom-corners, else VG in G+ dustjacket (several crude tape repairs, some..... More
Torreon, NM: Alan Verdegraal, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Magazine. 8.5 x 11 inches, 68 pp. Glossy pictorial covers, color and b&w illustrations. Includes "Why Tantra?", "Making 'Tantra', a film by Nik Douglas", "Why Sex-Centric Religion Moved Underground", "Sacred Orgasms", among others. Light rubbing to edges, old price sticker on front..... More
![Item #38723 De Peccato Originali ... [bound with] De Stolatae Virginitatis [bound with] De...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38723.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1336146141)
1679, 1680, & 1698. First & Second Editions. Three volumes bound in one. Hardcover. Attractive contemporary ivory vellum binding, with gilt-stamped leather title label to spine. The books are: (1) "De Peccato Originali .... sic Nuncupato, Dissertatio. Psalmographus Ps. LVIII. commate IV. ...", [Lugduni Batavorum] : Ex typographeio [Danielis à..... More
New Delhi, India: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1992. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 476 pp. Black cloth with yellow titling to spine; b&w illustrations, glossary, index. According to the publisher the author, B. Bhattacharya, was born in 1910 in Varanasi, and "received his first education in traditional toles in Sanskrit and..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 330pp. Blue textured papered boards lettered in silver on spine. Index. Bumps to spine ends & corners of boards, otherwise a solid near-VG copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket marked & discolored, several small edge-tears). More
St. Paul MN: Pivot Lodge, O.G.A., 1993. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 264pp. Black comb binding, transparent plastic cover sheets, printed paper cover / title-page with black titling and publication details, text neatly reproduced from a computer-generated typescript on both sides of sheets of A4 sheets, text etc. printed on both..... More
Edmonds WA: Holmes Publishing Group, ND [ circa 2001 ]. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo stapled booklet.. 20pp. Stapled speckled white covers, front cover titled and illustrated in black. Also known as Liber CDXIV "De Arte Magica" is an essay on the secret of the IXth degree of the OTO that was..... More
![Item #65737 The World Tragedy [ The World's Tragedy ]. Aleister CROWLEY](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/65737.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1586440775)
NP: No publisher, ND. Unauthorised Edition (?). Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii + 114 pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. The title on the spine is mis-spelled "The World (sic) Tragedy." Bound without a title page or publication details. It comprises the Dedication, Preface, and text of Crowley's "The..... More
Kings Beach CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Large slim octavo. xviii + 60pp. Original gilt decorated purple cloth with color frontispiece by Daniel Gunther, and purple endpages. First and only edition - limited to 1000 copies (there was also a sub-limitation of 33 leather bound copies). A collection..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1996. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. xvi + 252 pp. Glossy card covers. Appendixes. Index. These deeply introspective diaries start with Crowley's arrival in Tunis following his expulsion by Mussolini from his abbey of Thelema in Cefalu in Sicily. In addition to more mundane matters they..... More
Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. First Edition - Deluxe. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xviii + 60 pp. Original gilt decorated purple leather with color frontispiece and purple endpapers. All edges gilt. This being copy Number One (that is the personal copy of the contributor / publisher, Helen Parsons Smith) of..... More
Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. viii + 564pp (+adverts). This recent edition of the famous 4th century CE study of sexual practices is newly compiled from a variety of different texts, and restores the original verse-form and several commentaries lacking from earlier English translations..... More
New York: The Gargoyle Press, nd. 1902. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi + 386pp. Original yellow cloth with black spine label and titling. Colored top edge, b&w plates, tables. Boards a bit chafed at corners & head and tail of spine, corners bumped. Spine lightly rubbed on title. Pages lightly..... More
New York: Paddington Press, 1979. 2nd printing. Hardcover, oblong quarto, 286pp. Original textured boards with title imprinted on front and rear boards. Many b/w illustrations, including full page, and 16 color plates, notes, and bibliography. Very slightly leaned with rubbing on outer bottom corner of front board, otherwise VG+ in..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xvi + 240 pp. Black papered boards, gilt titling to spine; index. Very light rubbing and bumping to spine ends and corners; top edge of pages foxed lightly. Otherwise, a tight and unmarked VG+ in Near Fine..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992. First edition. Black Hardcover w/purple dust jacket, 240 pp, near fine condition. More
USA: Privately published, 1957. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 130pp. Red papered boards lettered in black on front board. B/w frontis. & illustrations. Bibliography. Bump to top of spine, bottom of spine & corners of boards lightly rubbed, previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, else a solid, internally-clean VG copy (no..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Courage Books, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 192pp. Black textured papered boards lettered in gilt on spine. The author looks at the seedier, sexier and more scandalous elements of rock music. Top-edge foxed, otherwise a clean VG copy in VG dust jacket. More
![Item #70848 Der OTOA-Reader; Hiram-Edition 18 [ Der OTOA Reader ]. Peter R. KÖNIG, Peter R....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678929734)
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 125pp + xxvii pp. Blue card covers lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. A collection of documents and commentary relating to the Ordo..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [vi] + 104pp. + 126 plates (np). An Interpretation of Erotic Sculpture of India. Maroon cloth with black titling and b&w illustrations. Light wear to boards, edges; end pages unevenly browned. Otherwise, sound and unmarked VG copy in VG..... More
Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. 136pp. Brown papered boards lettered in black on spine, with black illustration on front board. B/w interior illustrations. Slight age-toning to edges, small previous owner stamp on front pastedown, minor discoloration & wrinkling along bottom-edges of endpapers and first & last..... More
Las Vegas, NV: Falcon Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xiv + 162pp. List of suggested reading. From the publisher: "The Eastern Aspirant renounces sexuality while Western Religion severely limits its expression. introduces a middle path, extending the delights of male-female coupling into rarely attained Bliss as Man approaches ever..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo, l+506 pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations, index. Corners rubbed and bumped, edges and spine chafed, creasing to fore-edge of early pages not affecting text. Otherwise, a solid VG copy. No dust jacket. More
New York: Medical Press of New York, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiv + 148pp ["Ananga Ranga"] + 30pp [pharmacopeia]. Original cloth spine with pictorial papered boards. Frontis, appendices, b/w illustrations. The "Ananga Ranga" (Stage of Love) or Kamaledhiplava (Boat in the Sea of Love) is an Indian guide to..... More
New York, NY: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1953. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 592pp. Original red cloth with gilt titling to spine. The single volume edition of this work, the English translation of which was first published by Dutton in 2 volumes in 1930. The author describes the..... More
