"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Occult & Esoterica
Hawksmoor.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 217; [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Typographic dust-jacket designed by Russell Mills, with printed price £8.95 to flap. Heavy toning to textblock edges, but otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Some minor marking..... More
The Dream of Ravan: A Mystery. (Reprinted from "The Dublin University Magazine," 1853 & 1854.)
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. [Hindu Theosophy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 248. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Merchant Taylors' School prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1944. Spotting to endpapers, and to first and final few leaves..... More
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks [Film Campaign Brochure].
London: Walt Disney Productions, 1971. [Children's Animated Musical Film] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR BOOKLET (28 x 21cm), pp.[20]. Notes on the plot, leading actors, producer, director, animator, and music, with colour photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Some light rubbing to spine. Near fine. A booklet published to accompany the popular..... More
Classics Illustrated: Story of Magic. No.515.
London: Thorpe & Porter, no date [circa 1960]. [Magic and Conjuring] ORIGINAL COMIC (26 x 17cm), pp.48. A series of stories about magic and magicians, told in the form of a colour-illustrated comic. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Moderate toning throughout, with wear and bumping to covers. A tear..... More
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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
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
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
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
Sleep and His Brother.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Mystery fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at 28s. Textblock top edge tinted blue. Light spotting to textblock edges, wear to edges of dust-jacket, more so to..... 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. 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 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 Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion: Part III The Dying God.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1930. [Theology and the Occult] THIRD EDITION REPRINTED. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp. xii; 303; [1]; 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt pictorial decoration to upper and gilt lettering to spine, untrimmed edges. Half-title lettered in red and black. Toning to edges of textblock, wearing to..... More
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1922. [Occult] FIRST ABRIDGED EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 756 [4]. With a frontispiece reproducing an engraving after J.M.W. Turner. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally..... 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
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
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
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
Demon Possession and Allied Themes, being an inductive study of phenomena of our own times.
London: George Redway, 1897. [Demon Possession in China] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 520. Including the supplement to the second US edition. Publisher's yellow cloth with red titles to spine and upper. Top edge red, others untrimmed. Theosophical Society library bookplate to front pastedown, with associated inscription..... More
The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and Most Illustrious Heroes; In a Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by Way of Dialogue. The Nineteenth Edition. Revised, Corrected, Amended, and Illustrated with New Copper Cuts of the Several Deities. For the Use of Schools. By Andrew Tooke, A.M. Late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House School.
London: Printed for C. Hitch, C. Bathurst, M. Cooper, Etc. 1757. [Classical mythology] SCARCE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4]; 360; [36]. With 28 copperplates, including a frontispiece. Brown full calf, with gilt double-ruling to boards and gilt-ruled raised bands to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, a few..... More
Poltergeist Over England. Three Centuries of Mischievous Ghosts.
London: Country Life Ltd., 1945. [Ghosts] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 423 [1]. With a black and white frontispiece, 12 photographic plates, and numerous in-text illustrations by Hookham. Publisher's black cloth with green titles to spine and upper. Blind Ex Libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker..... 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
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 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