As with all our Miscellany catalogues this list comprises a selection of books from across our areas of specialty, ranging from rare and out-of-print works, limited editions, and signed copies to used modern paperbacks.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 350pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Colour frontispiece, and one colour plate. B&w diagrams. Indexes include: General, Word, Acadian, Syriac, Arabic/Persian, and Greek. The stated first edition of John M. Allegro's famous - if controversial..... More
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New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1957. First Edition. Hardcovers. Quartos (approx. 12.5 x 9.5 inches). Separate text volume and clamshell plate "volume", both housed in a brown cloth slip-case with paper title-label. Both the text volume and tne clamshell case are bound in matching two toned beige/brown cloth with gilt..... More
New York, NY: University Books, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 188pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dr. Crookall calls this volume: "the first comprehensive survey of the possibilities of animal extrasensory perception (ESP) and animal survival of death...". Light bruising to corners & spine ends, top-edge a bit..... More
London: The Aquarian Press, 1977. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 116 pp. Blue cloth with silver title, etc. to spine, frontis, b/w illustrations, appendices. A theoretical and practical guide for those wishing to explore the Astral Plane, by James Herbert Brennan (b. 1940), a professional author who has written..... More
New York, NY: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 392pp + author bio. Gold cloth spine with grey titling over grey papered boards, appendix, coloured top edge. Stated First edition. From the publisher: "French-born Dane Rudhyar (1895 – 1985), a humanistic astrologer who pioneered modern transpersonal..... More
Applegate, CA: Esoteric Fraternity Publishers, 1962. Thirty-eighth edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. xl + 288pp. text + cxxvipp. of tables, iipp appendix, [ ix adverts] Original navy cloth with gilt title and solar design to upper board, gilt title to spine, frontisportrait, b&w illustrations. The author, Hiram Erastus Butler (1841 -..... More
Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover, Octavo. 204 pp. Blue pebbled cloth with gilt titling. A pioneering work on vocational astrology by Charles E. Luntz (1890-1971) British astrologer, Theosophist, and businessman. A couple of small bumps to the edges, owner's details on first blank, light creases to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 408pp. Green cloth with blue title panels on spine and upper board, illustrated endpapers, index. B&w frontisportrait and illustrations. The first edition in attractive period-design dust jacket. A quite comprehensive history of astrology, commencing with Babylonian astrology, and..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (ca. 1975). Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 462pp. Blue cloth boards lettered in blue on spine & with blue stamped design on front board. B/w diagrams. Index. An often reprinted, very popular guide to astrology. It was originally written as a "complete professional's guide..... More
New York: Babbit & Co., 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xii + 560pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and front board and elaborate black decorative borders to both spine and upper board, beveled edges, colored page edges, b&w title page vignette. Includes the four requisite color..... More
New York, NY: Princeton University Press, 1967. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. lviii + 310pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine, endnotes, list of works cited, glossarial index. The first English language edition of this selection of the writings of anthropological / archaeological / mythographical writings..... More
Surrey, UK: FAB Press, 2009. First Edition, Deluxe ltd. Hardcover. Quarto. 576pp. Black faux leather with gilt titling to spine and gilt dragon sigil on upper cover, heavily illustrated in b&w and colour, ribbon marker and illustrated endpapers. Edition limited to 1150 hand numbered copies signed by both Baddeley and..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1975. First US Softcover Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 198pp. Index and diagrams. The first US edition of this early major study on the subject - which seeks to validate the findings of earlier research, bringing the subject onto firmer scientific ground. British born Bagnall..... More
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1967. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 226pp. Blue cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board, glossary and index. Alice Bailey (1880-1947) was born in England, but moved to America in the early twentieth century. Although she had a strong Christian upbringing, she was drawn..... More
New York / London: Lucis Press / Publishing Co., 1974. Second revised printing. Softcover. Small format. (7 x 4.5 inches). 80pp. Pale green wrappers lettered and with publisher's imprint in dark blue. Author Foster Bailey was the husband of Alice Bailey and founder of the Lucis Trust, the Arcane School..... More
Essendon, England: Dr. Douglas Baker, 1977. Softcover. Quarto. 192pp. Colour illustrated white wrappers, b&w and colour illustrations. Dr. Douglas Baker was the founder of the International Festival of Esoteric Science which had yearly meetings in various major cities world wide throughout the 1970s. He also founded the Claregate College ("the..... More
North Ryde, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Trade paperback format.. xii + 164pp. Glossy wrappers illustrated with a detail - in colour - of a painting by Rosaleen Norton. A very fictional retelling of the story of Rosaleen Norton and Eugene Goossens. From the collection of Crowley-scholar..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 440 pp. Bright red cloth with black titling to spine, b&w frontis and illustrations, fold out charts, index. Hans Schindler (1901 – 1982), [AKA H. S. Bellamy, Hans Schindler Bellamy], was a Viennese English professor who wrote a number of..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1949. Second Revised and Augmented Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 312pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine; b&w illustrations, index. Hans Schindler (1901 – 1982), [AKA H.S. Bellamy, Hans Schindler Bellamy], was a Viennese English professor who wrote extensively on pseudoarchaeology. "Moons, Myths and Man. A Reinterpretation"..... More
London: Rider, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 350pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine; bibliographical selections, index. Certainly one of the sanest and most important late twentieth century works on tantra. During a long and eventful career the author, Viennese-born Leopold Fischer (1923 – 1991), took the monastic name..... More
Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, Various [ 1968 - 1991 ]. Mixed, Reprints. Hardcovers. Small quartos. Fifteen Volumes (complete set). All bound in series navy cloth w/ gilt title and author to spines. Vol. I, 1874-1878 : lxxx + 570pp, (1977); Vol. II, 1879-1880: xlvi + 590pp (no date); Vol..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Theosophy Company, ND (circa 1970s). Softcover stapled booklet. Octavo. 36pp, Printed green card wrappers. An essay by Blavatsky that was first published in "Lucifer" Volume IV - March 1889. This is a nicely produced reprint, apparently from the 1970s. From the collection of Crowley-scholar Martin P...... More
Philadelphia, PA: John D. Wattles, 1893. Second Edition, with Supplement. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 390pp + vi pages reviews. Original black cloth bordered in red, gilt titling on spine, gilt and red illustration on upper board, colored top edge, appendix, supplement and indexes. A study of the practice of the..... More
London: John M. Watkins, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii + 476pp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and upper board, frontis with tissue guard, Appendix. A collection of essays on Böhme and the mystical path, most of which were published in "Light" and similar spiritualist..... More
London: Aquarian Press, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 244 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Frontis and b&w illustrations, index. Although titled "Tibetan Yoga" the book is actually about the occult arts in Tibet in general, and seems to have very little about what most would..... More
