1893. Quarto size, measures 11.75" x 9.75." The covers are executed in a silk (or fine linen) brocade over padded thick rigid boards. The centre panel is elaborately embroidered in gold, silver, and coloured thread, inset with approximately 46 "gemstones" (presumably cut glass - though we haven't checked), what we..... More

(np): Privately Printed, ca 1880 (nd). Hardcover. Large 8vo. 238 pp. Quarter red cloth with papered boards; gilt titling to spine; frontis, b&w illustrations. Accounts of flagellation in the form of a series of letters, supposedly written by one young lady (a member of the The Merry Order of St..... More

San Francisco, CA: Privately Printed, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, xxiv, [ii], 56 [iv] pp. Original quarter cloth with printed paper boards and blue cloth backstrip with paper title label. Color title page illustration, and rubricated throughout. Illustrations. Edition limited to 400 copies. Signed by translator on half..... More

United Kingdom: Orange Box Books, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 217pp, 3pp adverts. Glossy illustrated card covers, b&w illustrations. This copy includes an signed note from the author on printed letterhead, as well as several other pieces of related ephemera. From the publisher: "The paranormal fascinates us. From our first..... 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: 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: 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

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

New York: Methuen, 1978. Revised edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xviii + 296pp. Tan cloth spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards. B/w illustrations. Gift inscription by the author on front free endpaper: "With best wishes to a very old friend from a very old friend - the author, Michael Harrison"..... More

New York: Methuen, 1978. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. xviii + 296pp. Tan cloth spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards. B/w illustrations. A serious look at the puzzling subject of spontaneous combustion in humans. A little light rubbing to edges and points, otherwise a tight, unmarked VG copy..... More

London: Chiswick Press, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 160pp + ix (actually x) diagrams/charts, 3 of which are fold-outs. Original blue cloth with blind borders on covers and gilt titling to spine. B&w illustrations and plates. The author, Daniel Smith, was an eccentric amateur linguist, whose interest..... More

Squirrel Island, Maine: Frank C. Hughes, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 68pp. Stapled in glossy printed wrappers. A collection of polemical letters and essays by Frank C. Hughes (1882-1961) a quite virulently anti-religious (particularly anti-Catholic) atheist and humorist. Following his retirement as a municipal judge in Montana he spent much..... 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