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.
London: The Sufi Movement [ The Camelot Press, Ltd ], ND [ 1926 ? ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xiv + 325pp, ipp advert. Brown textured cloth, gilt titling to spine and upper board. Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 –1927) founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914..... More
London: Williams & Norgate, 1892. First edition. Hardcovers. Large octavos. Two volumes. Vol. I: 304pp.; Vol II: 290pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spines. Index. An interesting theory of religion by King, an American anthropologist. King suggests that religion and magic evolved as an attempt by primitive man..... More
New York, NY: Philosophical Library, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. liv + 420 pp. Pale blue cloth lettered in black on spine, b&w illustrations, bibliography, index. An encyclopediatic dictionary of symbols by Juan Eduardo Cirlot Laporta (1916 – 1973) a Spanish poet, art critic, mythographer, and musician. Although largely intended..... More
London: William Rider & Son Ltd., 1922. Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 292 pp. Gilt decorated blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and upper board, coloured frontispiece and ten b/w plates, bibliography and index. A broad ranging study of amulets, charms and talismans. Chapters and sub-chapters..... More
Los Angeles CA: Builders of the Adytum [ BOTA ], (copyright date 1991). First Edition Thus. Softcover Stapled Booklet. Octavo. 52pp. Printed white paper wrappers B&W illustrations. A work book meant to be completed by those studying the BOTA tarot. It contains reproductions of the 22 cards of the major..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First US Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 191pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, well illustrated in b&w and colour, end-notes, bibliography, index, illustrated end papers. The stated first US edition of this comprehensive overview of the use of tarot cards, includes a history, connection..... More
Dorset, UK: Element, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. viii + 180pp. Glossy pictorial covers. B&w illustrations, bibliography, glossary, index. The tarot as an initiatory process and guide to spiritual awakening. Very light rubbing and creasing to cover edges, pages a bit toned, otherwise a bright, unmarked VG+ copy... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 356pp. Original fine beige cloth with black title and illustration to spine, frontis, b/w illustrations, index. A nice hardcover reprint of this important work in which Papus builds on the work of Eliphas Levi: one of the first..... More
The Hague (Holland): L.J.C. Boucher, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Square small quarto. 120pp. Original cloth with black lettering on spine & blind-stamped sun device on front board. Illustrated endpapers. B&w and color illustrations. Bibliography. A surprisingly elusive work by the Hungarian / British artist Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908–1979). By his..... More
New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 212pp. Tan cloth with black titling to spine; index and bibliography. An attempt to understand telepathy from a serious scientific perspective. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Bookshop sticker front pastedown, page edges a little darkened - but overall, a clean..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 272pp. Green cloth lettered in white on spine, b/w illustrations, bibliography and index. William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench (1911 – 1995) was a prominent ufologist who edited Flying Saucer Review from 1956 - 1959, founded the International Unidentified Object Observer Corps..... More
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USA: The ANJA Offensive, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. A limited edition set. Hardcover book with 4 CDs. Not paginated but with 96 pages text and illustration. Illustrated paper covered boards, 4 musical CDs. From the publishers: "A Musical Herbal ~ being 4 CDs set in a 96pp hardback book..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1968. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small quartos. Two volumes (complete). Vol. I: xxxii + 608pp & Vol. II: xvi (ii), 629pp, (ii map), iv publisher's catalog. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spines, b&w illustrations, index, red-coloured top edge. A facsimile reprint of..... More
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. First English language edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 424pp. Original charcoal cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, illstrated title page, b&w illustrations, colored endpages, notes. In fictional format, Kunze follows the footsteps of an illiterate vagrant family in Bavaria in..... More
Isle of Mann: Athol Press, 1965. First Edition. Softcover / Paperback. 152 pp. Illustrated covers, b&w illustrations. The scarce first book by the "Queen of the Sabbat and the Highpriest of the Sheffield Coven of Witches" Patricia Crowther (b. 1927) and her then-husband Arnold Crowther (1909-1974). Patricia Crowther was initiated..... More
London: George G. Harrap, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 220pp.+2pp. ads. Black cloth with gilt title etc to spine, bibliography. An unusually sympathetic study for its time, which largely foreshadows the modern view of witchcraft as the survival of pre or non-Christian spiritual belief system. Chapters include 'The Origins..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. large octavo. xvi + 388 pp. Mauve cloth with gray title, etc. to spine, blind rules, frontis, index. A festschrift in honour of Jeffrey B. Russell. Essays on subjects including "elves, the Christian apocryphas, msticism, sexuality, heresies and heresiologies, apocalyptic tracts, astrology, hell..... More
London: Rider, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 164pp. Original red cloth lettered in black on spine. B/w photos. Notes & bibliography. The true UK first edition (which preceded the US edition by a year) of this landmark work in the modern Witchcraft revival. Cloth has a hint of fading at..... More
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1975. First US Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 352pp. Silver card covers with black titling and illustrations to cover and spine. One of the best known books in the twentieth century witchcraft canon - and arguably a work that was a major influence in the witchcraft "revival." In..... More
Chicago: Aries Press, 1938. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 224pp. Original red cloth with black titling to spine and gilt device to upper board, references, principle dates, bibliography. The first American edition of this work which was published simultaneously the same year in London by Rider & Co. Little..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 574pp. Original rust coloured cloth with gilt titling to spine. Background notes, descriptive bibliography, genealogical charts, maps, indexes and reproductions of drawings by Hakuin. "A greatly expanded version of the author's 'The Zen Koan'. Detailed..... More
