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Kiss of the Vampire — Publicity Services [Film Campaign Brochure].
London: Rank Film Distributors, 1963. [Horror Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. A4 magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.[8]. Including notes on the plot, specs for posters and lobby cards, and suggestions cinema owners for publicising the film and extracting maximum financial benefit from showing it at their venue. Printed in..... More
The Consciousness of the Atom. A Series of Lectures delivered in New York City, Winter of 1921-22.
New York, NY: Lucifer Publishing Co., 1922. [Esoteric Philosophy] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[14] 104 [6]. Recently re-bound in blue half morocco, with gilt titles to spine, and the publisher's original blue cloth over boards, titled in gilt to upper. Gently toned, with occasional light..... More
From Intellect to Intuition.
London: John M. Watkins, 1933. [Esoteric Philosophy] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.179 [1]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Gently toned throughout, with heavy spotting to edges. Moderate general wear to cloth. Very good. More
Initiation Human and Solar.
London: John M. Watkins, 1933. [Esoteric Philosophy] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Armorial bookplate of Allan Buckworth Barns to front pastedown, and blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Gently toned throughout, with some spotting to edges..... More
A Treatise on White Magic, or the Way of the Disciple.
New York, NY: Lucis Publishing Company, 1945. [Esoterica] FOURTH Edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 675 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Typed ownership label to front fly-leaf, and some spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Moderate wear and sunning to spine. Very good..... More
An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices. Containing An Account of the Genii or Familiar Spirits, both Good and Bad, that are said to attend Men in this Life; and what sensible Perceptions some Persons have had of them: (particularly the Author's own Experience for many Years.) Also of Appearances of Spirits after Death; Divine Dreams, Divinations, Second Sighted Persons, &. Likewise the Power of Witches, and the reality of other Magical Operations, clearly asserted. With a Refutation of Dr. Bekker's World bewitch'd; and other Authors that have opposed the Belief of them.
London: Printed for D. Browne, J. Taylor, R. Smith, F. Coggan, and T. Browne, 1705. [Occult] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[16] 400. With a wood engraved frontispiece by Michael Vandergucht. Later brown full calf, gilt titles and tooling to spine. Text heavily toned and lightly spotted throughout. Annotations..... More
The Treasury of Light: Or, the Storehouse of Truths Gathered on the Luminous Pasture Fields of History, Mythology, Prophecy, and Heraldry.
London: George J. Stevenson, 1858. [Occult/Esoteric] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, interesting provenance. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii [4] 452. With numerous illustrations, including frontispieces and a folding chart. Contemporary burgundy half calf, borders gilt-ruled. Raised bands, gilt designs, and gilt title to spine. Nonpareil marbled paper over boards. Matching nonpareil marbled..... More
A Great Revelation! Derived from the Great Pyramid and the Word of God.
London: Robert Banks & Son, 1899. [Eschatology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.237 [3]. With various tables, several folding. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Light yellow coated endpapers. Front flyleaf removed. Some spotting to half-title and rear advertisement leaf, and toning to edges. Sewing..... More
Magick in Theory and Practice. By the Master Therion (Aleister Crowley).
Paris: Published for Subscribers Only, Printed at the Lecram Press, 1929 [actually 1930]. [Philosophy/Theology, Folklore and Mysticism] SUBSCRIBER'S EDITION. First edition in book-form. Royal Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.xxxiv, 436; [2]. Publisher's red buckram lettered in gilt to back-strip, white endpapers, top edge gilt. The title-page is a cancel (as..... More
Elements of Negro Religion. Being a Contribution to the Study of Indo-Bantu Comparative Religion.
Edinburgh: Edmondston-Scott and Co., 1910. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 244; [3 of advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Some offsetting to endpapers, a few dinks to top edge. Cloth a little rubbed to extremities. Very good. More
The Meini Hirion and Sarns of Anglesey. Considered in relation to the early hundred system.
Published by the Author at Pen-y-Bont, Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 1927. First (and only edition, until very recently when the printers did a facsimile). 8vo. 54pp. Later cloth binding with titles to spine and upper in gilt. A little foxing and toning to sheets else fine. Binding is unmarked. A...... More
Pause to Wonder. Stories of the Marvelous, Mysterious, and Strange.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1944. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xix; 572. Bound in publisher's grey cloth with red title to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket. Book in very good condition, binding holds well, tape repairs to boards, endcaps pushed, some markings along board edges, and discoloured areas to rear board..... More
Haunted Houses. Tales of the Supernatural, with some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907. [Paranormal] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xv [1] 283 [1]. With 70 illustrations overall including 64 plate illustrations, 5 in-text illustrations, and a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated by the author. Publisher's dark brown cloth with pictorial designs and titles blocked in gilt..... More
Cyclops Christianus; Or, an Argument to Disprove the Supposed Antiquity of the Stonehenge and Other Megalithic Erections in England and Brittany.
London: John Petheram, 1849. [Esoterica] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Supreme Council, 33° (Masonic lodge). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] iv; 247 [3]. Rebound in later blue half calf, marbled paper over boards. Red gilt-lettered label, raised bands, and gilt masonic symbols to spine. Marbled endpapers and textblock edges matching design..... More
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
The Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. [Spiritual Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 70 [6]. Number 83 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Printed on fine handmade paper, with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard, and a...... More
A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. To Which is Added an Essay on the Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of Western Europe.
London: Privately Printed, 1865 [Reprinted 1894]. [Esoterica] PRIVATELY PRINTED NEW EDITION. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 41. Quarto (22 x 19cm), pp.[6] xvi; 254; 40 unpaginated plates. Contemporary green quarter morocco, brown cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Green..... More
My Philosophy. Representing my Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space.
London: Ernest Benn, 1933. [Esoterica] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.318. Publisher's mid-green cloth blocked in gilt and blind. with titles stamped in gilt and black. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges foxed, covers fresh, spine sunned. My Philosophy is the final major book by the eminent British physicist..... More
On the Truths Contained in Popular Superstitions, With an Account of Mesmerism.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1851. [Paranormal] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 197 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, blind-ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Partially re-backed with original spine laid over. Edges untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Internally clean, minimal spotting to prelims and rear blanks. Some..... More
Spook Crooks! Profusely illustrated by James and Howard Savage.
London: Selwyn and Blount, No date [c.1932]. [Magic and Folklore] FIRST EDITION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 287; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Some spotting to textblock edges, fading spine, minor bumping to lower spine edge, slight watermark to front..... More
Witches and their Craft.
London: Odhams Books Limited, 1967. [Witchcraft] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. With sixteen monochrome halftone plates, and further in-text illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 21s to front flap. Gently toned throughout, faint infrequent thumbing/marking. Free of inscriptions. Two..... More
The Fires of Alchemy: A Transpersonal Viewpoint.
Morton, Lincolnshire: Archive Publishing, 2004. [Transpersonal Psychology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 232; xxiii-xl. With many illustrations, some in colour. Number 126 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author and editor in black ink to half-title. With original flyer, order form, and publisher's compliments slip loose to..... More
Ways to a New Style of Architecture: Five Lectures by Rudolf Steiner given during the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914.
London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company; New York, NY: AnthropoSophic Press, 1927. [Architecture and Theosophy] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Quarto (32 x 24cm), pp.viii; 60. With 13 black and white photographic plates, as well as numerous in-text diagrams. Publisher's brown quarter cloth, with titles and illustration to cream paper over..... More
The Geography of Witchcraft.
Evanston and New York: University Books, 1958. [Witchcraft] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[12] 623 [5]. Publisher's teal cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Lightly toned throughout. Adhesive residue to both endpapers. Dustiness and gentle spotting to top edge. Two strips of archival tape to..... More
A Treatise of Ghosts. Being the Psichologie, or Treatise upon Apparitions and Spirits, of Disembodied Souls, Phantom Figures, Strange Prodigies, and of Other Miracles and Marvels, which often Presage the Death of some Great Person, or Signify some Swift Change in Public Affairs. Written in French by the Learned Father Noel Taillepied, of the Order of Capuchins, and now First Translated into English, with an Introduction and Commentary by Montague Summers.
London: The Fortune Press, [1933]. [Paranormal] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xix [1] 263 [1]. Title-page lettered in red and black. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, browning/offsetting to endpapers. Top edge gently spotted. A few small..... More