"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Occult & Esoterica
Werwolves.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1912. [Lycanthropy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; [2]; 292; [38 of publisher's advertisements, (some leaves unopened)]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine and upper board, blue typographic dust-jacket priced at 5/- net to spine. Some very light toning to endpapers..... 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 Life of Sethos. Taken from Private Memoirs of the Ancient Egyptians. Translated from a Greek Manuscript into French. And now faithfully done into English from the Paris Edition.
London: Printed for J. Walthoe, 1732. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xvi; 460; pp.[4] 480 [4]. With a folding map to each volume. Recently re-backed in brown calf to match the original brown speckled calf boards, ruled in gilt to..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
The Discovery of Witches: A Study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call'd Witch Finder Generall, together with a Reprint of The Discovery of Witches from the rare original of 1647.
London: At The Cayme Press, 1928. [Witch Hunting] FIRST THUS. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.62 [2]. With a facsimile frontispiece taken from the original edition of 1647, a facsimile of the plate 'The Witch Swims!' and a facsimile of the original title page. Publisher's black paper covers with titles..... More
Past Feelings Renovated; Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Hibbert's 'Philosophy of Apparitions', written with the View of Counteracting any Sentiments Approaching Materialism, which that work, however Unintentional on the Part of the Author, May have a Tendency to Produce.
London: George B. Whittaker, 1828. [Supernatural occurence / mysticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), ppxi; 323. Early two-tone cloth, manuscript label to spine. Contents clean, occasional fold to corners, vintage catalogue description affixed to pastedown, minor rubbing and soiling to covers. A very good copy. Relating to Samuel Hibbert-Ware..... More
Three Essays on Religion. Nature, The Utility of Religion, and Theism.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874. [Theism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xi; [3]; 258; [2] list of author's works. Publisher's binding of green pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles and rules to spine, black rules to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Contemporary ownership to flyleaf, later ownership inscription..... More
Gandalf's Garden Magazine. Issue One.
London: Citadelle Press, May 1968. [Esoteric Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE, the first issue with no text printed on the egg. A4 magazine (32 x 22cm), pp.32. Printed on various alternating pastel-coloured leaves, with occasional illustrations. Publisher's white, slightly glossy, paper covers, stapled twice. Covers detached. Well-thumbed, but essentially clean and intact..... More
Einleitung zu der Herolds-Kunst, auff eine bequeme und deutliche Art verfasset, in zwey Theilen. Die Wapen der vornehmsten Staaten und Republiques von gantz Europa gleichsam auff einen Anblick darstellend und in dieser teutschen Ubersetzung mit einem neuen Theil von der Wapen-Kunst insgemein, laut des nohtwendigen Berichtes in der Vorrede, vermehret.
Hamburg, 1694. First Edition of the German translation of Caspar Bussing's original Latin work published the year before, containing the Arms of all the European Emperors, Kings and other Rulers. Small oblong 8vo. (95 x 150mm). Contemporary full roan with raised bands, gilt and red title label to spine. Illustrated..... More
The White Goddess. A historical grammar of poetic myth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. [Folklore and Mythology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.430; [2]. Publisher's mid blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, maroon top edge, dust-jacket with printed price of 30s. net. Internally fine, top edge stain unfaded, some spotting to other edges, offset toning to endpapers. Wrapper..... More
The Haunting of Toby Jugg.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1948]. [Occult Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.292. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Light toning to edges; a small bookseller's label removed from front pastedown. Gilt heavily faded and a little rubbed..... 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
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. Publisher's brown cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Minor edgewear, clean and bright, very good indeed. Internally clean, minor toning to..... 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
The Vital Message.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1919]. [Spiritualism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.228. With four black and white photographic plates. Pages 1-2 are pasted to cover as endpapers (as issued; Green and Gbson, p.302, line 1). Bound in dark grey cloth lettered in gilt to the backstrip. Contents..... More
Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.
Boston: Little Brown 1897. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated. Attractive Art-Nouveau style binding in full green morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles. with gilt floral endpapers. Spine sunned else fine. Includes a chapter on Salem. More
An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology. The Hermetic Journal, Issue 24.
Privately Printed, 1984. ROBERT LENKIEWICZ'S COPY. Quarto, pp. 29-36. Hand-bound by Lenkiewicz between two plain plywood boards, with cream hand-lettered cloth pasted over as a spine. In two gatherings, each pasted to a board. Text appears to be photocopied. An unspeakably rude binding, but solid and functional. Good. From the..... More
A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients. Now Edited, with an Introduction Treating of Pigmy Races and Fairy Tales, by Bertram C. A. Windle, D.Sc., M.D., M.A., Trinity College, Dublin; Dean of the Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy, Mason College, Birmigham.
London: David Nutt, 1894. [Comparative Anatomy] LIMITED NEW EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.civ; 103; [1]. One of 550 copies. Publisher's card covers, with cream paper dust-jacket with titles to spine and front cover, together with an illustration. All edges untrimmed. Some spotting and dustiness to edges. Archival backing applied..... More
The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned & condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, Judges of Assize, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry, Lord Rosse, with their damnable practices against others the Children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, Witches in Leicestershire.
Leicester: Vance Harvey Publishing; 1970. [Witch Trials] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.26 [20]. With a woodcut vignette title page. A facsimile of a Victorian edition, circa 1841, limited to 500 copies, including the alarmingly large publisher's catalogue. Publisher's brown hard covers reproducing the title page to upper. Light..... More
The Accursed, Two Diabolical Tales.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership..... More
The Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. Spiriturality / Religion. Signed Limited Edition. Number 83 of 500 on handmade paper. Publisher's cream buckram boards titled and heavily decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Darkened to spine, nevertheless very handsome. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Internally clean. A charmingly written piece of..... More
The Phantom Host, and Other Verses.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1917. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Small octavo, 165mmx133mm, pp.47. Bound in publisher's blue paper wraps, with advertisements to inner flaps and rear of book. Titled in black ink with bookshop motif to upper. In excellent condition, with negligible spotting to the first and final leaves only. Wraps a...... 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
Some Nigerian Fertility Cults.
London: Humphrey Milford [Oxford University Press], 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii; 140. With 48 illustrations including a frontispiece, some on clay paper plates. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Small illustrated bookplate of Adam A. Chalmers to front pastedown. Slight reading lean, otherwise very good indeed... More