Garden City, NY: Dubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Revised edition. Softcover. Octavo. vi + 137 pp. Index. A revised edition of this look at the growth and decline of the Christian belief in the devil and other evil spirits, its origins, and its effects on modern day and future Theology..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 86pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Color frontis & plates. A study of Devas, as they are understood in Theosophical thought. According to this Devas are a type of being that exists somewhere in the spiritual hierarchy between angels and..... More
London: Privately Printed, 1883. First Edition. The scarce linen-backed folding chart in cloth slipcase which accompanied Forlong's "Rivers of Life." Green cloth slipcase (11.75 x 9 inches) with gilt titles, etc. to spine and front panel black rules. The chart is massive: 7.5 feet by 2.25 feet (2286mm x 686mm)..... More
Wellingborough, England: The Aquarian Press, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 286pp. Maroon cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. The second edition (published thirty years after the first) of Dion Fortune's first published novel: a classic horror story in which an evil magician sets out to use an innocent girl..... More
Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers for Royal Arch Masons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 222pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Colour and b/w illustrations. B/w frontisportrait. The first edition of this volume by American Charles Albert Snodgrass (1876-1963) who also wrote "The History of..... More
Wakefield UK: W. H. Milnes, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 368pp. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine, gilt heraldic device on front board. B/w frontisportrait and b&w plates w/ tissue guards. Index. With the Masonic-themed bookplate of the famous explorer (and Freemason) Sir Ernest Shackleton on..... More
Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 332pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, blind borders and bevelled edges. A selection of Masonic addresses and lectures by John Quincy Adams II ( 1833 – 1894), an American Freemason, lawyer and politician who was the..... More
London: Richard Spencer, 1841. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 320pp. Pale blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A study by George Oliver (1782–1867), an English cleric, schoolmaster, topographer who wrote extensively on Theology and Freemasonry.NOTE: Lacking half-title and title page, with a photocopy facsimile of the original title..... More
London: The Baskerville Press, ND ( 1924 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo.136pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Welshman, Arthur Edward Powell ( 1882 - 1969 ) was a Theosophist and Mason who wrote a number of books on Theosophical subjects and Freemasonry. Chapters comprise..... More
London: The Warrington Publishing Co., ND [ 1923 ]. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii + 78pp. + 6pp. ads. Original blue cloth lettered in white on spine & front board. B/w frontis. J. S. M. [John Sebastian Marlow] Ward (1885 – 1949) was an English author and psychic medium who made..... More
London: Griffith & Farrar, 1882. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. (ii) 88pp. (+ 2pp. adverts.) Original pictorial wrappers. Adverts on inside covers, front and rear. A supposedly true ghost story with a truly mysterious twist. In September 1861 Charles Dickens published a supposedly true tale of a ghostly encounter, entitled..... More
London: Charles J. Skeet, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 16pp. booklet bound with 18 blank leaves at rear. Contemporary half leather over patterned cloth boards. Bound in without wrappers. Marbled endpapers. B/w illustrations. The story of the famous "haunted vault" at Christ Church, Barbados, from which strange sounds were..... More
Cheltenham, Glos. UK: Skylight Press, 2011. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large octavo. 124pp. Glossy pictorial covers. From the cover ] "Gareth Knight traces the historical importance and esoteric influence of Merlin and the Grail tradition from its mythological beginnings right down to modern times. Topics covered include Dion Fortune's grail..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 272pp. Original two toned cloth with with silver lettering to spine. Inscribed and signed by Grant on the first blank endpaper: "with best wishes, Joan Grant. 1937 - 1964 Och V, Beach." The autobiography of Joan Grant, best-selling author..... More
Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, ND [Circa 1930]. First Edition - Troisième Mille. Hardcover. 2 Volumes in 1. 358 + 368pp. Contemporary full leather binding: blue morocco with elaborate gilt rules to boards, and gilt rules and decorations to spine, gilt tooling to inside margins of boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
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San Francisco, CA: Philosophical Research Society, 1977. Second printing Golden Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. Folio, vi + 246 pp. Beige faux leather spine with gilt titling, "marbled" boards and endpapers, gilt titled title lable on upper board. An impressive edition of Hall's massive work, best known by its shortened title 'The..... More
London: J. M. Dent, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 282pp. Original cloth lettered in red on spine. Signed inscription by the author on front free endpaper. Of the book, the author says: "My purpose, in the following pages, is to write a book upon dreams and the way..... More
London: John Churchill, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xxii + 266pp. + 2pp. ads. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, gilt title, etc. to spine. Bibliography and index. The first edition of this groundbreaking work on hypnotism which was later published under the title: "Braid on Hypnotism. The Beginnings..... More
Tabor, NJ: HOHM, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. iv + 72pp. b&w photos. New Jersey native Lee Lozowick (1943 - 2010) (aka Lee Khepa Baul ) was a spiritual teacher, author, and singer who commenced his "spiritual path" training in Silva Mind Control. He later became a disciple of Yogi..... More
London: Keating & Co., 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. lxxii + 228pp. Quarter leather: nineteenth century marbled paper boards, tastefully rebacked with with brown calf spine with leather title label, lettered & decorated in gilt. B/w plates (27 engravings on 7 pages - see IMPORTANT note in condition description..... More
Knaresborough, Yorkshire: Printed by W. Langdale and sold at the Dropping Well, ND ( circa 1810 ). Eleventh Edition. Softcover. Sewn booklet. 20pp. Printed wrappers. B/w illustrations and frontis. Original wrappers neatly laid over fresh matching card covers. Mother Shipton - Ursula Southill (various spellings - circa 1488 - 1561)..... More
Ponca City, OK: The Harmonial Publishing Co, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 269pp. Original red cloth illustrated and lettered in gilt, indexes. Colour and b&w illustrations. The first edition of this scarce volume expounding a mystical & cosmological philosophy based on the musical scale. Cloth a bit rubbed and..... More
Sydney, AU: Collins, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 154pp. Original purple cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. The first edition of Drury's pioneering biography of occultist and artist Rosaleen Norton. From the collection of Aleister Crowley scholar Martin P. Starr with his ownership signature on inside..... More
Bondi Beach, Australia: Walter Glover, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. x + 48 leaves with printed captions and colour photographs tipped onto versos, rectos blank. Comb-bound. Textured card covers lettered in gilt, beneath thick transparent glassine covers. Each copy of this Supplement was prepared only when Glover had an order..... More
Sydney, Australia: Walter Glover, 1982. Leather bound deluxe issue of second expanded edition. Hardcover. Quarto 80pp. Full scarlet leather binding, with gilt titling on front board and down spine. In original ivory slip case, with title and Norton design blindstamped into front panel. Thirty-one black and white reproductions of artworks..... More
