New York: Random House, 1929. First Edition Thus. s for its text and illustrations. Page-edges browned, spine ends rubbed, fading along bottom-edges of boards, otherwise a solid, internally-clean VG copy in Good+ dust jacket (dust jacket torn & discolored, 1" piece lost from top of spine, chipping - jacket now..... More
New York, NY: Abbeville Press, ND (1997 or later). First Edition - Third Printing. Hardcover. Small square octavo. 149pp. Navy cloth with gilt titling to spine, Endnotes, bibliography, colour frontis, lavishly illustrated in b&w and colour. At rear a list of "gargoyle sites" for the reader to visit can be..... More
London: Paul Naumann, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 78pp. Original red leather lettered in gilt on spine & front board, rebacked. B/w frontis. B/w photographic plates. All-edges-gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both authors on verso of frontispiece. The inscription is to "W. H. Stead Esq." but it seems certain..... More
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
France: Timeless Edition, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover, Large Square Quarto (11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). 288pp. Foil printed gilt/coloured boards. Over 250 colour reproductions of art works, illustrations and photos, plus reproductions of some correspondence with Genesis P-Orridge and Jhonn Balance. Introduction by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, short texts by..... 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: 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
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
London: T. & W. Boone, 1861. First editions. Hardcovers. Small octavos. Two volumes. xii + 330pp.; x + 364pp. Original decorated brown cloth gilt-lettered on spines. Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890) was a British author, Freemason, Rosicrucian, and student of comparative religion, who wrote widely on various esoteric subjects, although he is..... 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
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
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
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
Waldwick NJ: Bob Lynn, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. Not paginated (approx. 100 pp. - all except the first half-dozen printed on rectos only). Full faux black leather with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, well illustrated. Edition limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, this being copy number..... 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
