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New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) + 276pp. Original royal blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. Frontispiece portrait photographer. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author - "For Mr Nester, a loyal friend and devoted client with best wishes of the..... More
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1928. Fourth Printing. Hardcover, 8vo, xxiv + 344pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling and design to front board and gilt titling to spine. B/w illustrations and charts. An attractive early edition. In 1915 - 1916, whilst in America, Aleister Crowley wrote a...... More
New York, NY: Arno Press, 1976. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. (xxii) xxxii +178pp (+2pp - publisher's list). Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. Diagram. A volume in the Arno Press series "The Occult" with new Introduction by James Webb. The book itself is an..... More
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St. Paul MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1993. First Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. Small thick quarto. lxxii + 938pp + 10pp. ads. B/w illustrations. Full black cloth with silver titling and rules to spine, speckled page edges, index. State First Edition (thus). A significant edition with extensive commentary by Donald Tyson -..... More
Italy: Hypnos, 2012. Edizioni Hypnos. Softcover. Octavo. 408pp. Red wrappers titled in black block letters on the front cover and spine. Portraits on front and rear inside endpapers. ITALIAN text. This copy from the archive of David Tibet (who provided an introductory presentation), and SIGNED by him beneath the words..... More
London: Rider & Company, (1960). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 224pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling. English mystic, author and artist, Vera Stanley Alder (1898 – 1984) explores the possibility of a fifth dimension and what it would involve. Slightly leaned, edges a trifle dusty, a couple of dozen pages..... More
London: Rider & Company, (1965). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 188pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titling. English mystic, author and artist, Vera Stanley Alder (1898 – 1984) presents "a guide to attainment through the path outlined by Ancient Wisdom which she summarizes in relation to man, comparing it with..... More
London: The Aquarian Press, 1956. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 224pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titling. English mystic, author and artist, Vera Stanley Alder (1898 – 1984) outlines her thoughts as to the best way to organise human society for harmony and spiritual development, as well as..... More
London: Rider & Company, (1960). Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 236pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling. Reflections on personal and humanity wide development by the English mystic, author and artist, Vera Stanley Alder (1898 – 1984). From the publisher "Vital people are never content to be conditioned by orthodox education..... More
London: Rider & Company, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 206pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling. English mystic, author and artist, Vera Stanley Alder (1898 – 1984) looks at the science of atomic energy, what it tells us about evolution and creation, and its effect on human development on..... More
New York NY: St. Martin's Press, 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 350pp. Red faux leather with gilt titling to spine, pictorial front and end papers, frontis, b&w illustrations, index, bibliography, appendix. From the publisher: "The author uses archaeology, comparative mythology, etc. to reinforce his theory that voyagers from the..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. First California Press Edition. Softcover. Octavo. xvi + 477pp. Black card covers illustrated in gold and red. End notes, bibliography, index, Well illustrated in black & white. The first University of California Press Edition, corrected etc. from the edition of 1985. From..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxii, + 388pp. Raspberry cloth with angel image on the front cover in black, spine lettered in gilt on black title panel. B&w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Appendices, bibliography and index. Colored endpapers. The first edition of "A Dictionary of..... More
New York / London: Abbeville Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10 inches). 292pp. Original fine light brown cloth with gilt titling to spine, blindstamped title on upper cover, concludes with an Afterword, glossary, bibliography & index. Colour illustrated endpapers & illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. Heavily illustrated..... More
New Delhi, India: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1996. Reprint. Softcover, Octavo vi + 88pp. Dark gray cloth with silver titling to spine; English and Sanskrit text. The Sanskrit text, with English translation, of one of the root texts of Hatha Yoga. The usual somewhat basic production values of older..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. Third Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Large slim octavo. xviii + 78pp. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Nine full-page b/w plates (including frontis.) with tissue-guards. Includes a portrait and accompanying text or meditation on each of nine Theosophical "Masters": Master Rakoczi; Master Morya; Master Koot..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ND [ Copyright 1977 ]. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 208pp. Red papered boards lettered in black on spine. B/w frontis. & several illustrations. The fantastic story of the widely publicized haunting of George and Kathleen Lutz's home in Amityville, NY. Later made into..... More
Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1997. Hardcover. Quarto. 340pp. Papered boards, illustrated endpages, b&w illustrations throughout, endnotes, bibliography, index. The publisher describes this work: "The enigmatic, polyglot Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - has fascinated architects and historians since its publication in 1499. Part fictional narrative and part scholarly treatise, richly illustrated with..... More
Ithaca / London: Cornell University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. viii + 252pp. Bound in fine light grey cloth with a facsimile of Wölfl's signature in dark grey script on upper board, and title printed to spine in matching dark grey, printed on glossy art paper, well illustrated in..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. xx + 390pp. Fine rust colored cloth, gilt titling to blue panel on spine, bright blue endpages, b&w illustrations, Endnotes, Bibliography, index. From the publisher: "This pioneering work, the first history of the art of the insane, scrutinizes changes..... More
New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers / Icon Editions, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. viii + 288pp. Illustrated covers, many b&w illustrations, abbreviations used in catalogue of illustrations, catalogue of illustrations, index. An overview of Symbolits movements in art: a reviewer writes "This books strength lies in its..... More
London: Aquarian Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 256pp. Glossy printed wrappers. Frontis, b&w illustrations, index. Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (b. 1929) was born into a family steeped in occult traditions, with a Romany grandmother, and in the 1960s joined the Fraternity of the Inner Light, the well-known esoteric order founded by..... More
Dallas, TX: Sangreal Foundation, 1972. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 342pp. Blue cloth gilt-lettered and decorated on board on spine & front board, several b/w illustrations. English translation of a selection of works from the Astrologia Gallica of Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche - apparently originally selected by..... More
NYC: Zoltan Mason Emerald Books, 1974. First English language. Hardcover. Large octavo. 192pp. Original green cloth with gilt title and decoration to front cover and gilt titling to spine. A publication by Zoltan Mason well known NYC Astrology, author, publisher and book shop owner. The first English translation of this..... More
St. Paul MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 220pp. Original black cloth gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations and diagrams. An uncommon exploration of the roots of astrology in the ancient world by Irish born astrology Cyril Fagan (1896 - 1970) who is sometimes cited as..... More
