London: Printed for R. Goadby, and W. Owen, [1750?]. 'Second Edition with Considerable additions.'. Hardcover, Octavo. xx + iv + 240pp. Old calf beautifully restored, later leather spine; original leather of boards neatly laid down, gilt stamped title label between raised bands. The full title reads: An Apology for the..... More
Jacksonville Oregon: AJNA, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 11.75 x 9 inches. Not paginated but approximately 340pp. Fine black cloth with white line illustration on upper board, red titling etc to spine, red endpages, illustrated title page, illustrated throughout on quality art stock in colour and black & white. A...... 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
London: Rider, [1950]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 224pp. Black cloth lettered in white on spine. Index. B/w frontis. & plates. Five studies of unusual individuals: Hadrian Beverland, a Dutch savant of the late seventeenth century who was persecuted for his heretical opinions on sex and religion and eventually fell..... More
London: Rapid Eye Publishing Ltd., 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Small Folio. 198pp. Glossy illustrated wrappers, b&w illustrations throughout. Includes "Time Mirrors" - an illustrated essay on Austin Osman Spare by Genesis P-Orridge, "Montague Summers" by Sandy Robertson, "Sex, Crime and the Occult" by Colin Wilson, "Sybarite among the Shadows" (on..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 286pp. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. The British character actor (known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear and for appearances on the Goon Show) undertakes a Fortean..... More
London: University of London Council for Psychical Investigation, 1936. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 16pp & XX full page photographic plates. Original printed wrappers, b&w photographs, bibliography. A detailed study of Fire-Walking, based on two walks performed by Kuda Bux, in experiments monitored by the University of London Council for..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1946. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 232pp. Red cloth lettered in silver on spine. B/w frontispiece & illustrations, maps. Index. The revised second edition of this Fortean sequel to Gould's "Oddities." The object of the essays, according to the author, is to "collect and digest the facts..... More
Harrogate: R. Ackrill, 1882. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 190pp. Original cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. The first complete edition of a work that was written over 250 years previously. In it the author Edward Fairfax, laid forth in sincere and eloquent prose, his painfully misguided..... More
London: The Fanfrolico Press, (1927). First Edition Thus - Limited. Hardcover, Large Octavo. xxxii+144pp., Frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, decorations, & initials reproduced from early editions, appendices. Grey papered boards, lettered and decorated in red. First edition thus; limited to 450 numbered copies on heavy English hand-made paper. "The Metamorphosis of Ajax"..... More
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 222pp. Black cloth lettered in silver on spine. B/w illustrations. The author examines a number of well known tales of the bizarre and paranormal, from the "Amityville Horror" through psychic detectives and Jack the Ripper, to the the curse of the..... More
London: Wm. Alexander York, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, viii, 9-266pp [2 pp. ads] Original paper covered boards, paper title label on spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. The author, John Hoyland (1750-1831) was a Yorkshire Quaker, who had great sympathy for the plight of British Gypsies - to..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 372pp. Paper covered boards, red spine over cream boards with gilt titling to spine, B&w illustrations, endnotes, bibliography and index. Stated first edition. From the publisher: "A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped..... More
London: John Long, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 304pp. Navy cloth with gilt titling to upper board and spine, frontis, b&w plates, gilt top edge. Index. The memoirs of her father, Edward Kenealy, by the late-Victorian writer, physician, and anti-feminist Arabella Kenealy. Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy (1819 - 1880)..... More
London: Rider, ND [ 1932 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 144pp. Green cloth lettered in black on spine. A series of automatic writings received by written down by Isabelle Major Evans, a South African medium, in 1930. They purport to be communications from one Benjamin Kennicott (1718 - 1793)..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 224pp. Gilt decorated black boards with inlaid "death" illustration, gilt lettering to spine, index, 290 colour and b&w photographs, printed endpapers. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to the previous owner on the half title page. From the publisher..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Privately Published, 1973. First Edition? Hardcover. Quarto. 8.5 x 11 inches. [ viii ] + 106pp + 88pp diagrams, 1pp list of tables. Somewhat crudely bound with hand-lettered cloth tape spine over plain brown boards. Offers Larson's unique theory which blends Mormon prophecy with Egyptology and purports..... More
Chicago: Occult Publishing Co., 1926. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small slim octavo. 56pp. Orange cloth lettered in black on spine & front board. Reprinted from the Bulletin Review. Edition limited to 1000 signed and numbered copies, although like the few other copies of this work we have seen over the..... More
London: Quiller Press, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 224pp. Textured papered boards. Index. B/w plates. Signed by the author on half-title. History of the Acclimatisation Society of the United Kingdom and its sister societies. The acclimatisation movement was established at the heights of European Colonialism, which sought to establish familiar..... More
Lugduni [Lyon]: NP, 1576. Hardcover, 16mo ( 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches), 366 +, [lxxxii] pp. Late nineteenth or early twentieth century suede leather binding, with more recent gilt-stamped leather title label to spine. An early edition of an important work - a poetical reflection on the human condition..... More
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 208pp. Periwinkle blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; frontis, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography. Following works such Gerald S. Hawkins' "Stonehenge Decoded", and Peter Tompkins' "The Secrets of the Great Pyramids" - author, Morrison takes up the..... More
Paris: chez Prault pere, quay de Gêvres, au Paradis, 1741. Hardcover. Small octavo. 96pp. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked in period syle with raised bands, gilt fleurons and leather title label. Marbled endpapers. FRENCH text. An intriguing book of prophecies, attributed to one Thomas-Joseph Moult, apparently a pseudonym that some equate..... More
New York, NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Inc., 1982. Hardcover , small quarto, 62 pp, illustrated boards, pictoral front and end papers, very good + condition, minor wear to boards (no dust jacket.). More
Cambridge, England: W. Heffer & Sons, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii] + 190pp. Original burgundy cloth lettered on spine. A study of the representation of madness in Elizabethan theatre. I. Introductory; II. The Presentation op Madness— from the Standpoint of History; III. The Presentation op Madness— from the Standpoint..... More
London: Duckworth, 1985. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 234pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrations, bibliography. Oliver Sacks, M.D. (1933 - 2015) was a physician, a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine and a best selling author - best known for his..... More
