Margate: Quatuor Coronatorum, (nd). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. 18 pp. (121-138) Stapled blue wrappers with neat handwritten title on cover. An off-print from the renowned Masonic research journal "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum." Neat "Quatuor Coronati Lodge" stamp on front wrapper. A hint of discoloration to the staples on the wrappers..... More
Paris: H. Daragon, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 304pp. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards & endpapers. Original wrappers bound in at rear, marbled endpapers. Top-edge-gilt. FRENCH text. Edition limited to 500 hand numbered copies, this being copy no. 101. A history of Freemasonry up to the end of the..... More
London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. Hardcover, 8vo, xii, 210pp. Illustrations, Chinese character index. Original boards bumped at head of spine; lightly bumped at corners; light bruise to fore edge. Light spots to fore edge; minor creases across early bottom corners. Name to ffep. All else VG. Dustjacket rubbed on folds;..... More
Margate: H. Kerle's Gazette Office, 1961. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. 24 pp. Original printed wrappers, b&w illustration with tissue guard. An off-print from the renowned Masonic research journal "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum" Volume LXXIV. Some small creases to wrapper otherwise internally clean, unopened pages. VG+ copy. More
Quakertown, PA: The Humanitarian Society, ND ( Copyright 1961 ). Second, Enlarged. Softcover. Octavo, 48pp. Original printed stapled wrappers. A strange racist diatribe, attacking race-mixing, Islam, the United Nations, modern educational methods, etc. etc. Oddly there are a couple of pages on, and several passing references too, Aleister Crowley, who..... More
Margate: H. Kerle's Gazette Office, 1903. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. 4 pp. Original printed wrappers, frontis with tissue guard. An off-print from the renowned Masonic research journal "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum" Lodge, Vol. XVI. Edges slightly darkened and chipped, wrappers detached, light foxing to edge of paper. Overall, a VG..... More
Margate: H. Keble's Gazette Office, 1903. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. 12 pp. Original printed wrappers, frontis and b&w illustrations with tissue guards. An off-print from the renowned Masonic research journal "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum". Volume XVI. Edges of wrappers slightly chafed & chipped, otherwise VG+ copy. More
Margate: H. Kerle's Gazette Office, 1907. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. 4 pp. Original printed wrapper, frontis, b&w illustration. An off-print from the renowned Masonic research journal "Ars Quatuor Coronatorum" Volume XX. Overall, a VG+ copy. More
New York, NY: Citadel Press, 1990. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 256pp. Glossy illustrated covers. B&w illustrations, index. From the cover: "Almost every social system throughout history has produced its secret societies. Here is a unique study of such societies from earliest recorded times to the present, along with an analysis of..... More
Boston, MA: WeiserBooks, 2004. Softcover. Large Octavo.. xii + 242 pp. Glossy printed wrappers; index, b&w illustrations, maps, bibliography. The authors explore the history of Rennes-le-Chateau, examining its supposeds relationship to the Merovingian bloodline of Christ; its location in terms of the meridians that link other esoteric cites, stories that..... More
Concord, NH: Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 546pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. & illustrations. Index. Includes a Biographical Dictionary compiled by Gerald Foss and Woodbury S. Adams. A tight, clean VG+ copy in near VG dust jacket..... More
Kila, MT: Kessinger Publishing Company, ND [ 1993 ]. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. 10.75 x 7.5 inches. iv + 282pp. Bright blue paper covers titled and illustrated in black, b&w illustrations. A cheaply produced reprint of the complete Francken typescript of the rituals of all twenty-five degrees of Etienne (Stephen) Morin's..... More
Central Falls, RI: E. L. Freeman, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 124pp. Blue cloth gilt-lettered on front board. Several b/w plates. Cloth a bit rubbed and darkened overall, spine darkened & chafed at ends, corners lightly chafed, a few bumps to cover edges, top-edge browned, small tide-marks to fore-edges of..... More
NP, ND, (c.1920s). Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 8 inches). Approx. 330pp. Black patterned leatherette flexible boards with gilt rules to edges. All edges gilt. Decorated endpapers with gilt flourishes to margins. Text in manuscript and typescript. A beautifully prepared book of Masonic ritual. The front endpaper has the neat..... More
Cleveland: Privately published, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 62pp. + 60pp. + 64pp. + 72pp. Black faux leather gilt-lettered on spine & front board, raised double eagle design embossed on upper board, gold endpapers. Handwritten presentation inscription from Albert H. Fiebach, Commander in Chief for Cleveland, to Samuel H...... More
Chicago, IL: Ezra A. Cook Publications, 1959. Reprint of Revised Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, 280pp (+16pp. publisher's adverts). Bright blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover. B&W Ills. A revised edition of the guide to Masonic rites and rituals originally published as "Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry"..... More
Larkspur, CO: The American Federation of Human Rights, 1932. First Editions. Softcovers. Booklets. Three issues. Each issue is 20pp. except for No.9-10 which is 24pp. Stapled wrappers. 'The Official Bulletin of The American Federation of Human Rights.' "A Magazine devoted to the interest of International Co-Masonry." Three issues of this..... More
Larkspur, CO: The American Federation of Human Rights, 1933. First Editions. Softcovers. Booklets. Two issues. Each issue 24pp. Stapled wrappers. 'The Official Bulletin of The American Federation of Human Rights.' "A Magazine devoted to the interest of International Co-Masonry." Two issues of this scarce Co-Masonic journal from the year 1933..... More
Boston, MA: for the Author by H. H. & T. W. Carter, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 304pp. Orginal brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board, appendix. A study of the apparent murder of William Morgan of Batavia, New York in 1826, whose disappearance sparked a powerful..... More
Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 224 pp. Glossy printed wrappers, b&w illustrations. From the Roots of Golden Dawn series by Aquarian Press. The first edition of this important work in which John Hamill and R.A. Gilbert collected, for the first time, the magical writings of Frederick..... More
London: Augustine Press, 1954. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 232pp. Original red cloth with gilt titling and rules to spine, b&w frontis & illustrations. The author, William Walton Thomson Hannah (1912 –1966), was an Anglican clergyman who in later life converted to Roman Catholicism. "Darkness Visible", in which Hannah examined the..... More
St. Louis, MI: William H. Stevenson, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi + 74pp. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt on front board. Index. A very scarce 'compact' review of court decision relating to the various bodies and groups mentioned in the title - written for the layperson. Cloth a...... More
Madras, India: The Eastern Foundation, 1986. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 300pp. Original cloth lettered in white on spine, glossary & bibliography. Geoffrey Hodson (1886 – 1983 ) was an occultist, Theosophist, mystic, Liberal Catholic priest, philosopher and esotericist, and active for over 70 years in the Theosophical Society..... More
New York, NY: The Olympia Press, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 280pp. Black papered boards lettered in silver on spine. Slight bumps to spine ends, age-toning to page-edges & margins, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket (dust jacket lightly rubbed, a few tiny..... More
Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. x + 308 pp. Contributors, article history, bibliography, b&w and color illustrations. Essays exploring "the hidden path of the religions banned by the orthodox Church - from the time before Christ when the foundations of Christianity were being laid to..... More
