ANOTHER HARMONY: New Essays on the Folklore of India.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. FIRST EDITION. Top of front panel bruised; else, A VERY GOOD+ VOLUME in premium cloth, without internal marking. 387 pages with index. Tall octavo.
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EGYPTIAN RELIGION: Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life.
Hude Park: University Books, 1959. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY, sewn. New introduction, and many additional illustrations. Facsimile of the 1900 London edition. 224 pages. Small octavo.
CATALOGUE DES MANUSCRITS ALCHIMIQUE LATINS. I. Manuscrits des bibliotheques publiques de Paris anterieurs au XVIIe siecle.
Brussels: Secretariat Administratif de I'U.A.I, 1939. A VERY GOOD COPY in academic wraps as issued; front panel has chip lower right corner, and a taped repair; internals remain unopened. Additional editors: I. J. Bidez, Fr. Cumont, A. Delatte, Sir Frederic Kenyon, and V. de Falco. Text in French. 367 pages.....
THE ILLUSTRATED WHITE STAINS: The Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop, A Neuropath of the Second Empire.
Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2011. Limited to 418 hand-numbered copies. Custom end papers; ribbon marker; printed red and black; A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Edited, with an introduction, by William Breeze. Fully illustrated by Fredrik Söderberg in six stunning watercolors, using a four color printing technique. Originally.....
THE ENGLISH PARACELSIANS.
NY: Franklin Watts, 1966. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. A 32 page bibliography of Paracelsian literature gives additional value to this work. As a research tool, the text is most excellent in its stress on alchemy as an aid to medicine. 222 pages, indexed. Tall.....
PARABOLA: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition: TIME AND PRESENCE.
Volume Fifteen, number 1, Spring, 1990. A FINE COPY, free of marking or defect. Fifteenth Anniversary Issue; which features ans interview with the Dalai Lama, plus more of note. 149 pages. Tall 8vo.
FROM MYTH TO FICTION: The Saga of Hadingus.
University of Chicago Press, 1973. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Previous owner's initials on front free end paper; else, A FINE CLOTH VOLUME. Translated by Derek Coltman. Hadingus was an ancient legendary king of Denmark, fostered by giants. 253 pages, indexed. Octavo.
HIDDEN LORE, HERMETIC GLYPHS: The Carfax Monographs.
London: Fulgur Limited, 2006. Limited to 777 copies only, hand-numbered, and in protective slipcase. A FINE MINT COPY in fine dust jacket and slipcase, uncirculated. Printed on semi-coated Italian GardaPat matte in full color, the plates have been further heightened with gold and silver accents, and produced from the original.....
DANZA BAMBOLA, DANZA!
Italy: Media Print, 2014. Limited to 200 copies only of which this copy number 12. In custom wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Translated by Roberto Migliussi. Text in Italian. Steffi Grant art work as cover illustration. 76 pages. Octavo.
VIEWS FROM THE REAL WORLD: Early Talks of Gurdjieff.
New York: Dutton. 1975. Quality trade paper edition; VERY GOOD+. No marking, defect, stains. 276 pages. 8vo.
THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE PLATONIC EPISTLES.
Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms, 1985. A Fine cloth volume. 203 pages with index. Small octavo.
JANE HEAP: Notes..
Aurora, OR: Two Rivers Press, 2002. FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket with marbled end papers, hand bound, in premium cloth. Heap, along with other women, was a member of "The Rope", Gurdjieff's special group of literary women like Margaret Anderson and Geogina LeBlance, in the Paris of the.....
JAPAN'S RELIGIONS: Shinto and Buddhism.
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1966. Very good cloth volume in a rubbed dust jacket. A Hearn anthology comprising much of his best work on all things Japanese. 356 pages. Octavo.
TSANGPO LAMA'S WALLFAHRT DIE PILGER.
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1922. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate; original publisher's illustrated binding slightly worn; nice illustrated initials and head and tail pieces; VERY GOOD in decorated cloth. Illustrated. Text in German. 346 pages. Octavo.
CLAVIS ARCANA MAGICA.
York Beach: Teitan Press, 2012. Limited, hand-numbered edition of 650 copies only. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME with gilt front panel and colored frontispiece. With an Introduction by Alan Thorogood. The full text of a previously unpublished manuscript by Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), an occultist and Freemason, whose interests included scrying.....
SHAKESPEARE AND THE MYSTERY OF GOD'S JUDGMENTS.
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1976. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Explores the symbolism of the major plays, but also Dr. Faustus. 208 pages with index. Octavo.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY RELATED TO WORSHIP: From Gentile and Hebrew Sources. Considering Universal Ideals and Predictions Fulfilled in Persons, Nations, and Social Movements of the World. Part One: Gentile Forecast of Christ. Part Two: Daniel's Forecast
Denver: Masonic History Company, 1907. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD, with light edge stain on bottom edge, which does not infringe text, being only a quarter inch or so for only a few pages. Illustrated. Unusual material particularly on such figures as Tiberius, Constantine, and the power couple, Justinian & Theodora.....
THE BOOK OF SIGNS; Which Contains All Manner of Symbols Used from the Earliest Times to the Middle Ages by Primitive People and Early Christians.
New York: Dover, [1955]. In quality trade paper, sewn, as issued, sewn; VERY GOOD+ COPY without marking or defect. 104 pages. 8vo.
THE GREAT MIGRATION: The Origin of the Jewish People and Materials Towards the Solution of a World Problem.
London: Skeffington, 1932. FIRST EDITION. Foxed at the prelims and edges; no marking; VERY GOOD+ cloth copy with large folding color map showing the migration related to the lost tribes over the centuries as frontispiece. Interesting study of ancient religious beliefs, myths, and ritual. Bibliography. 266 pages with index. Small.....
SEVEN FRIENDS.
Thame: Mandrake Press Limited, 1992. Limited Edition of 750 numbered copies only. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with rare photographs of the subjects involved. A series of literary portraits (Wilde, Powys, Crowley, etc.) are gems of the genre, and includes Crowley's amusing account of the hunting.....
ORAGE AS CRITIC.
Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. A number of selections from A.R. Orage's early writings, including selections from his journal, "The New Age". 218 pages. Octavo.
RIDING THE APOCALYPSE WAVE. Volume One: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Breakdown of Western Civilization, and the Beginning of a New Worldwide Civilization. Volume Two: Cosmic Vibration, Esoteric Knowledge, and the Spiritual Principles that Create the World.
Fifth Sun Publishing, 2014. Tall oversize paper edition as issued; A FINE SET. Well Illustrated. V. I: 302 pages. V. II: 82 pages. Tall 4to.
THE SONNETS OF G.S.O. With a Momorial.
Los Angeles: Veritas Foundation [Distributed by Philosophical Research Society], 1979. FIRST EDITION. In custom wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Foreword By Marie Bauer Hall, the wife of Manly Hall. Publication was subsidized by Burl Ives, who was a fellow Mason with Hall, at the same LA Lodge. Unusual material.....
BLAVATSKY'S SECRET BOOKS: Twenty Years' Research.
San Diego: Wizard's Bookshelf, 1999. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY in custom cloth, sewn and archival. Searching for the sources of The Book of Dzyan, "The Voice of the Silence", and other HPB related material. Much of the research centers on Tibetan traditions. 181 pages. Octavo.
CATALOGUE: Explore the Exceptional, the Powerful Pleasure, 1989. Together with Special Issue catalogue: OCCULT -- Including Art & Artifacts.
Las Vegas, 1989-90. In original R-B envelope; FINE. Illustrated broadsheets advertising various Crowley books recently released, and enticingly headed. "delightfully disgusting, the finest in filth", and other ephemera, plus a separate stapled list of New Collector Editions produced in concert with Ars Obscura. An original order form is laid in.....
