York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Publishing, 1993. Reprint. Softcover. Large octavo. xii + 288pp. Blue illustrated covers, Eight colour plates and b&w illustrations. Crowley's well known masterwork on the tarot. B/w reproductions of the card designs by Frieda Harris. Obviously read a few times, this copy shows moderate normal wear..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small Quarto, xii + 288pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, color frontis which was omitted from later printings, color and b&w plates. The first printing (1969) of the Weiser edition of "The Book of Thoth," Crowley's..... More
Berkeley CA: K@shmarin Press / Kashmarin Press / Shambala Publications, 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small quarto, xii + 288pp. Original brick cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations. Artist Executant: Frieda Harris. This edition supposedly limited to 2000 numbered copies, however, given its comparative scarcity it is hard..... More
Paris: Éditions La Table d'Emeraude, (1996). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 354 (+ vi)pp. Glossy pictorial card covers. Black and white illustrations. Text in French / texte en français. One of 1000 offset printed copies (there were also 25 numbered copies on Périgord demi-mat). The uncommon first edition of this..... More
Paris: Éditions La Table d'Emeraude, (1998). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 312 (+ ii)pp. Pictorial card covers. Black and white illustrations. Text in French / texte en français. The first edition of this second collection of hermetic and alchemical essays by Baron Emmanuel van der Linden d'Hooghvorst (1914–1999), a Belgian..... More
Quebec, Canada: Éditions de Mortagne, 1980. Softcover. Small quarto. 226 pp. French text, b&w and color illustrations. Covers darkened with rubbing along edges, page edges lightly browned. Otherwise, an internally clean VG copy. More
London: Rigel Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 112pp. Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w illustrations, appendix, bibliography. The first edition of a revised reprint of a work originally published as "Accelerate Your Evolution." In it the author seeks to set explore the reason and..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Schors, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. x + 228pp, illustrated in b&w, bibliography. DUTCH TEXT. Light bumps and chafing to edges and extremities, covers lightly rubbed otherwise a tight, clean unread VG+ copy. More
Aotearoa, NZ: Steele Roberts & Associates Ltd, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 144pp. b&w illustrations, photos, index. From the publisher: "Sir Jack Harris Bt inherited his baronetcy from his father, but would have earned a knighthood in his own right, given his impact as a pioneering manufacturer and civic leader..... More
Stamford, CT: U.S Games Systems, Inc., 1979. Second Printing. Hardcover. Oversized quarto. xvi + 388 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w and color illustrations, bibliography, index, frontis. Volume I of Kaplan's fascinating four volume encyclopedia of Tarot and playing cards. This volume (complete in itself) examines..... More
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 240pp. B/w illustrations. Original black cloth with silver lettering to spine, bibliography, glossary & index. A nice hardcover reprint of Kaplan's standard work on the tarot, which explores "the origins and centuries long development of tarot, plus..... More
NP [ Pittsburgh, PA ]: Privately Published [ G. M. Kelly ], 1984. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), vi + 93pp + ipp bibliography, 10 b&w plates of tarot-like designs by Kelly. "Velobound" photocopied pages: Flexible black plastic covers, secured together with a...... More
New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1972. Hardcover. Octavo. 216 pp. Light red cloth with black titling to spine, diagrams, b&w illustrations. Very light rubbing along edges, owner's name on front free end paper. Otherwise, a solid and clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket rubbed with chips and..... More
ca. 2000. The print is of an intricately detailed black and white pen and ink drawing. It is one of the designs for McCloskey's original interpretation of the Major Arcana of the Tarot that was eventually published - after a seventeen-year journey of creation - as "Tarot Re-visioned" in 2003..... More
ca. 2000. The print is of an intricately detailed black and white pen and ink drawing. It is one of the designs for McCloskey's original interpretation of the Major Arcana of the Tarot that was eventually published - after a seventeen-year journey of creation - as "Tarot Re-visioned" in 2003..... More
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Stamford, CT: U.S. Games Systems, Inc., ND ( circa 1988 ). Softcover. 2.75 x 1.5 inches. Matchbox-sized instruction booklet, stapled printed wrappers, 44pp. A "miniature" version of the instruction booklet which accompanies the classic Rider-Waite (Waite-Smith) Tarot deck designed by Pamela Coleman Smith and Arthur E. Waite. Staple a bit..... More
London: Strange Attractor Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 336pp. Faux leather spine with illustrated papered boards, printed endpapers, lavishly illustrated in colour. The Standard edition. From the publisher: "In the Spring of 2013 a 79-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 8 x 11 sewn wraps. 190pp. + ii plates. Pictorial covers. Extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. The first issue of Starfire appeared in 1986, and it has been an occasional Journal of Kenneth Grant's "Typhonian Order" ever since. Dedicated to..... More
London: Aquarian Press / Thorsons, 1992. First Edition - Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 352pp. Publisher's Color illustrated covers. B&w illustrations. From the publisher: " The Merlin Tarot is one of the most powerful and unusual tarot decks ever produced. Based entirely upon the magical and spiritual adventures of Merlin, and..... More
London: Aquarian Press / Thorsons, 1988. First Edition - Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 352pp. Publisher's color printed covers. B&w illustrations. The second printing of the author's first book on the use of "The Merlin Tarot " both as a tool for divination, visualisation, etc. From the publisher: "The Merlin Tarot..... More
West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, ND [ 1967 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo & stapled pamplet. 208pp. Red boards with silver titling to spine, diagrams and b&w illustrations of tarot cards. Also included is the 22 page stapled pamphlet entitled "Ancient Egyptian Tarot Card Set" which comprises b&w..... 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
Edmonds, WA: Holmes Publishing Group, 1996. First edition. Softcover. 36pp. Stapled Booklet. Off-white card covers lettered in black, illustrations in b&w. Appendices. The first printing of Number 5 of the "Golden Dawn Studies" series of monographs edited etc. by Darcy Kuntz and designed to make available rare Golden Dawn and..... More
