A very eclectic selection, ranging from modern paperbacks to some genuinely rare older works.
New York: University Books, 1966. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large octavo. Not paginated (approx. 48pp) Illustrated wrappers. Endnotes, index. Printed in brown ink. Fifty-six poems which Leary based on the thirty-seven chapters of Book I of the Tao Te Ching. This appears to be the first edition thus, which was..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 216pp. Light blue cloth w/ gilt title, etc, to spine, b/w illustrations. Thomas Charles Lethbridge (1901-1971) was a well-known British author, archaeologist and psychic researcher, who was committed to investigating occult subjects, such as dowsing, ghosts, witchcraft..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 346pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, red endpapers, index. From the publisher: "In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xviii + 324pp. Endnotes, list of manuscript sources, index of printed sources, general index. From the publisher: "Explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a...... More
London: George Routledge, ND [ circa 1912-1913 ]. First "Cheap" Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 96pp. Original wrappers, illustrated and lettered in green on upper board and spine. Unflattering b&w frontisportrait of H. P. Blavatsky with the imprinted caption "the greatest imposter in history" beneath it. A critique of the Theosophical..... More
San Diego, CA: Omphaloskepsis, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 110pp. Blue stiff covers, text printed in brown. From the cover: " A bible for those who want to explore the parameters of onanism." Light rubbing to cover, light scattered pencil underlining, but will a tight serviceable near VG copy... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1867. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xlviii + 464pp, Red cloth decorated in blind with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt illustration on front cover, b&w frontis and illustrations. An early reprint of this comprehensive look at the meaning reflected in the art of..... More
![Item #62497 Deosil Dance (Seven issues). Autumn, 1988; [April, 1989?]; No. 14, 1989; No. 15,...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553788784)
Gwynedd, UK / London: Deosil Dance / Pentacle Enterprises, 1988 - 1994. First Editions. Softcover. Octavo. Seven non-consecutive issues of this pagan journal. Not paginated. but each issue approx. 24pp plus printed wrappers, thus approx. 170pp. Each in coloured stapled illustrated wrappers. Called by the editor "A magazine devoted to..... More
Nottingham, England: Shepherd Bros. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 68pp. Original printed grey paper-cover boards with black lettering; cloth spine. A collection of Nottinghamshire folklore, following on from the first series. This volume is divided into five parts: Proverbs and Rhymes; Eccentrics and Eccentricities; Church and Churchyard Gleanings; Ballads..... More
London / New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2017. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 294 pp. Notes & references, bibliography, index, and b/w illustrations. One of the few intelligent studies of a subject which seems to generally have acted as a magnet for the credulous and ill-informed. Covers a little rubbed at edges..... More
London: Central Library Gallery Oxford, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 32pp. White stapled wrappers illustrated and lettered in black, b&w illustrations, 2 pages adverts at rear. The catalog produced to accompany an exhibition of 42 works of art by various artists, including Austin Osman Spare which was held at the..... More
New York: John Wurtele Lovell, ND (1912). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 370pp. Original blue cloth with white lettering to upper board and spine, blind borders. The first edition of this occult novel with sci-fi elements. An order known as "the Mystic Brotherhood" use their occult abilities to look into..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 204 pp. Grey cloth with black title, etc. to spine. An entertaining, lightweight, anecdotal account of US occult groups in the late 1960s and early 1970s (names appear to have been changed, but it isn't..... More
London: (Both the Ones), ND [ 1989 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. i + 60pp, advert. Stapled in grey printed card wrappers, b&w illustrations. A magazine of "Occulture." Includes the essays: "Better Wizardry" by Peter Carroll, "Sigil of Yog-Sothoth by Frater Tenebrous; "Action Sigils" by Ray Sherwin and an essay..... More
New York: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 64 pp. Pocket sized, index. A volume in the "Paths to Inner Power" series published jointly by Aquarian Press and Samuel Weiser Publishing in the 1970s. Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise a clean VG+ copy. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834. First Edition - Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Small folio (10.25 x 13.5 inches). xxii + 264pp. (+2pp Errata) + 13 plates. Original buff paper-covered boards with paper title-label to spine. Thirteen plates, ten by George Cruikshank, four of which are hand-coloured (as..... More
Mexborough, United Kingdom: Nox Press / Pagan News Publications, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. vi + 42pp, b&w illustrations. Red stapled wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on upper cover, List of works cited. The stated first printing of this study of The Process Church Of The Final Judgement. The..... More
Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 591pp + ipp advert. Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bibliography & index, 2 page Errata bound in at rear. The author, Josephine Ransom (1879-1960), was a leading member of the Theosophical Society and Theosophical historian, who lectured, edited..... More
London: William Bennett, 1841. Third Edition. Hardcover, large Ocatvo. viii + (3)-716pp. Half-leather over marbled paper boards. Contemporary leather spine with gilt titles labels skillfully repaired by being laid down on new backstrip, original marbled paper boards. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. Various charts and b&w woodcut illustrations in-text..... More
London / New York: George Allen & Unwin / Samuel Weiser, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 190pp. Maroon publisher's cloth with blue titling etc. to spine, blue publisher's device to upper board. The first edition of this translation of a selection of Rumi's writings published five years after Nicholson's..... More
![Item #62428 The Runic Hall in the Danish Old-Northern Museum; [bound with] Macbeth, Earl Siward...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62428.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553788784)
Cheapinghaven (Copenhagen) and London: Michaelsen and Tillge & Williams and Norgate, 1868, 1876 & 1878. First Editions. Hardcover. 3 Volumes in One. Small folio (11.5 x 8.5 inches). "The Runic Hall": vi + 26pp (+ 12 full page and one folding engraved plates not counted in pagination), Michaelsen and Tillge..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xx + 124 pp. Illustrated, glossary, bibliography. The author, Edred Thorsson (pseudonym of Stephen E. Flowers) is an academic with a PhD in Germanic Languages and Medieval Studies, who is well known for his many books and papers on..... More
Berlin: Zentralverlag der NSDAP. Franz Eher Nachf. G.m.b.H., 1944. 6e Auflage. Softcover. Octavo. 68pp. Original black wrappers with white titling and S.S. runes within a circle on upper wrapper. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The sixth and final edition of this work, it includes the forward to the 1st - 4th editions by..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xxii + 352pp, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than..... More
London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1947. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 136pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. The first publication of nine lectures, all related to education including "The Waldorf School", given at Manchester College, Oxford, from August 16th to the 25th, 1922. Access to..... More
