THE VERTICAL MAN: A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1947. FIRST UK EDITION. Light handling; else, Very Good+ cloth copy. Illustrated. 122 pages, plus 48 photographs. 8vo.
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THE RELIGION OF RUSSIA: A Study of the Orthodox Church in Russia, From the Point of View of the Church...
London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Occasional foxing and paragraph marker; VERY GOOD+ copy in corner chipped dust jacket. Illustrated. With the bookplate of J.I. Wedgewood, the head of the Theosophist's Liberal Catholic Church and close ally of Leadbeater.....
THE ZEN MONASTIC EXPERIENCE: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea.
Princeton University Press, 1992. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in dust jacket. With sixteen plates. 264 pages index, bibliography, & appendices. Royal 8vo.
THE DAWN OF A NEW RELIGIOUS ERA AND OTHER ESSAYS.
Chicago: Open Court, 1916. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in chipped dust jacket. Small octavo.
ATLANTIS DESTROYED.
London/NY: Routledge, 1998. FIRST EDITION. A FINE HARDCOVER COPY in fine dust jacket. 225 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.
TELL ME WHY I'M STILL IN THE OTO: My Memoirs of Being in Ordo Templi Orientis Between 1993 and 1996.
Berkeley: Cornelius, 2020. Limited to 200 copies only, signed. A FINE CLOTH COPY. Edited, with an introduction, by Erica M Cornelius. This is a personal, controversial examination of one of the most turbulent times in the Order's history. The changes imposed were not always welcomed by all members, and it.....
MEANING AND SALVATION IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1984. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY. The conflict of salvation and evil in various traditions, including witchcraft. Bibliography. Brill series Studies in the History of Religions, XLVI. [vii], 174 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.
THE DIVINE PYMANDER OF HERMES. In Twelve Books with Commentary; Translated from the Arabic by Dr. Everard [1650]; with Introduction & Preliminary Essay by Hargrave Jennings.
San Diego: Wizard's Bookshelf, 1994. FIRST WIZARD EDITION. FINE COPY, bound in white buckram, with an illustrated front panel. One of Richard Robb's best productions to which he added a much needed index. Classic Hermetica. Secret Doctrine Reference Series. [xiv], 112 pages, [6] index. Octavo.
OUTER GATEWAYS. Special DeLuxe Edition, Signed.
London: Starfire Publishing, 2015. Limited DeLuxe Edition of 111 copies, signed by Steffi Grant. Quarter bound in leather with hand made paper boards; custom end papers; A Fine Volume in fine dust jacket and slipcase. Edited by Michael Staley, who has hand numbered this copy. 280 pages, indexed. Octavo.
SHAKESPEAREAN ACROSTICS: A Demonstration of the Marginal Words in the First Folio of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
London: The Bacon Society, 1947. Second Enlarged Edition. Presentation copy with the author's compliments, dated 1 April, 1947; VERY GOOD+ cloth or better. 139 pages. Small folio.
MICHAELANGELO IN A TEACUP: A Biographical Reminiscence of Austin Osman Spare.The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare With Numerous Full Page Plates by the Artist.
London: First Impressions [Mandrake Press & Holmes], 1995. Special Leather Edition, PC Copy [Printer's copy] initialed by the American publisher. A FINE VOLUME, quarter bound in black leather and cloth boards with marbled end papers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, and illustrated stamped spine title -- uncirculated copy. Includes Frank.....
THE DISSOLVING IMAGE: The Spiritual-Esthetic Development of W.B. Yeats.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. Tall 8vo.
SECRETS OF MY KINGDOM: Return to Dimensions Unknown. Special Signed DeLuxe Edition in Decorative Box.
London: Cult Never Dies, 2018. A FINE SET which includes a large oversize cloth volume [in shrink wrap] expanded by 100 pages, plus a set of twelve tall prints on heavy weight enamel art paper, a certificate of authenticity signed by Mortiis, and a stitched reproduction of Mortiis' 1993 zine.....
ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEDITATION.
New York: Viking Press, 1971. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD cloth copy in dust jacket. 248 pages. Bibliography. Octavo.
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE PROTESTANT RELIGION WITH AN ANSWER TO MR. SCLATER'S REASONS, AND THE COLLECTIONS, Made by the Author of the Pamphlet, Nubes Testium. Together with the Second Part: The Antiquity of the Protestant Religion, Concerning Images, with an Answer...
London: Printed for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, at the Stationer's Hall, 1687. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in marbled boards and leather backstrip with label; binding as new; internals show light browning but are uniformly clean with no loss to trim; A FINE COPY. Part I......
JEWISH AND GNOSTIC MAN. Eranos Lectures 3.
Dallas: Spring Publications, 1987. Fine copy in academic wraps as issued. Contents: Quispel's "The Birth of the Child": "Some Gnostic and Jewish Aspects"; and Scholem's "Three Types of Jewish Piety". Small 4to.
THE UNIFYING FACTOR: A Review of the Kabbalah.
London: Jacob Aronson, 1996. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. An unusual work and hard to categorize, as the author moves easily from the traditional to the more speculative branches of this ancient thought, including an unusual essay appended on Nazism and Kabbalah. Royal octavo.
THE PSALTER OF CAIN: Psalterium Caini.
Xoanon, 2012. Limited edition of 701 numbered copies in custom crimson cloth. FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY. Original crimson linen, with gilt blocking, and limited to 701 copies. This volume printed letterpress, and type was dispersed. Beautifully illustrated with traditional red & black plates. The "Psalter" consists of a series.....
A GNOSTIC BOOK OF HOURS: Keys to Inner Wisdom.
SF: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Fine hardcover copy in dust jacket. Color illustrations. [xxiii], 164 pages. 8vo.
LUMIERE D'ORIENT: Des Chretientes d'Asie aux Mysteres Evangeliques.
Paris: Dervy Livres, 1979. Fine copy in academic wraps with jacket. Few scattered notes in pencil by author and bookseller, Robin Waterfield, who wrote biographies of Boehme and Guenon. 158 pages. Text in French. Octavo.
THE SACRED OASIS: Caves of the Thousand Buddhas Tun Huang. With a preface by Pearl Buck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1953. FIRST UK EDITION. Very Good+ cloth volume in nice dust jacket. Frontispiece in color. Forty nine plates. Folding map tipped in rear. 144 pages. Tall 8vo.
LES LIVRE DES ATLANTIDES.
Paris: Payot, 1941. European wraps with wear to the binding; browning to the text, but free of marking; VERY GOOD COPY. Text in French. Translated by Dr. F. Gidon from the Spanish. With forty one figures and maps en texte. 345 pages. Octavo.
THE DOOR OF LIBERATION: Essential Teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition.
NY: Girodias (Lyle Stuart), 1973. VERY GOOD+ cloth volume in slightly chipped dust jacket. Seven sacred texts comprise the volume, including a work by Tsong-khapa, a 15th century Tibetan master. Prefatory note by Tenzin Gyatsho, the XIVth Dalai Lama. 323 pages. Tall 8vo.
A GLIMPSE OF NOTHINGNESS: Experiences in an American Zen Community.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. FIRST UK EDITION. A Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 184 pages. Octavo.
LIBER ARCANA CAINITA.
Sauroctonos Publishing, 2021. FIRST EDITION. Custom black end papers; bound in black cloth with brass corners and gilt pressed front panel; A FINE COPY. 176 pages. Octavo.
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