BABE: The Life of Oliver Hardy
New York: Citadel Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo: 224 p. with numerous textual photographs. A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. More
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FLIGHT SOUTH
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. An unsual novel set in Mexico City and concerning the relationship between young fraternal twins and an enigmatic matador named Granados. A year prior, Esquire published..... More
THE WALL STREET GIRL
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. A tale of New York and a young man's relations with two women: a young stenographer and his wealthy fiancee. Frontispiece and six illustrations..... More
THE POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1850. Hardcover. An early and rather scarce American edition, published during the poet's lifetime, with an introduction by Henry T. Tuckerman. Octavo, two volumes with the publisher's ads at..... More
PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM AS ILLUSTRATED IN PHALLIC WORSHIP OR THE REPRODUCTIVE PRINCIPLE
London: George Redway, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. The only edition, with an introduction by J.G.R. Forlong, author of the monumental Rivers of Life (1883). Hodder Michael Westropp (1821-1885), who also wrote On Phallic Worship and..... More
KUNDALINI: An Occult Experience
Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1962. Third Edition. Hardcover. Arundale (1878-1945) was a Theosophist, Freemason, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar, and a bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. 12mo: xvi, 102 p...... More
THE PURITAN ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN SELF
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Second printing. Influential interpretation of the structures of expression and feeling that composed the writing of Puritan New England. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt..... More
FOOD IN TIBETAN LIFE
London: Prospect Books, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first book in English to describe Tibetan foods, their preparation and cookery, and their relation to Tibetan culture." Illustrated by the author, with Tibetan script..... More
C. IULII CAESARIS QUAE EXTANT, ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri
Leiden: Elzevier, 1635. Hardcover. First Elzevier Edition, first issue, "...la plus parfaite des productions elzeviriennes, le principal chef-d'oeuvre entre tous ceux qui ont immortalise le nom des grands typographes neerlandais" (Willems). Includes also the commentaries..... More
TWO YEARS AGO.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. With the Crimean War as its backdrop, this novel called attention to the issues of sanitation and public health. From the library of Scottish lawyer, university administrator..... More
HEREWARD THE WAKE, “LAST OF THE ENGLISH.”
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Perhaps a review copy: a holographic note that reads “From the Publisher” appears on the half-title in the first volume. The story of Hereward, a...... More
ALTON LOCKE, TAILOR AND POET. An Autobiography.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. In this novel, Kingsley set out to expose the social injustice suffered by workers in the clothing trade and the trials and tribulations of agricultural laborers. It..... More
SEVEN SPANISH MYSTICS: Original Studies by Sister Felicia, O.S.A.
Cambridge: Society of Saint John the Evangelist, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Examines the lives and legacies of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Blessed John of Avila, Saint Peter of Alcantara, Luis de Granada, Saint John of the..... More
GHOSTS OF GOSPELS: The Methods of Spiritualism in Healing Compared with the Methods of Christ.
Boonton, New Jersey: The Nazarene Press, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Wilson (1870-1923) was the founder of the Society of the Nazarene, whose aim "was to deepen spiritual life and to impart strength and health to..... More
THE EQUINOX: The Official Organ of the A.A. - The Review of Scientific Illuminism, Vol. I, No. I - X
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser. Inc., 1992. Hardcover. Limited to 750 sets. Massive compendium of articles and other material concerned with occultism and magick. Published semiannually from the years 1909 through 1913, The Equinox served..... More
SEX AND RELIGION: The Bagh-i-Muattar, The Paris Working, The Wake World, Diary 1906-07 e.v., and others commented - being EQUINOX V No. 4
Nashville: Thelema Publishing Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by Marcelo Motta. Also contains Crowley's Letter on Marriage to an Aspirant, the famous "pornographic" poem Leah Sublime, and The Field-Theory of Sex, which includes techniques..... More
THE CHINESE TEXTS OF MAGICK AND MYSTICISM: The Yi Jing, The Dao De Jing, The Jin Gan Jing, and others commented - being EQUINOX V No. 3
Nashville: Thelema Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by Marcelo Motta. "These masterpieces are supplemented by explanatory diagrams, appendices containing material not previously known to exist, and a photograph of the Master in Chinese..... More
THE SCENTED GARDEN OF ABDULLAH THE SATIRIST OF SHIRAZ: A Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by Martin P. Starr
Chicago: The Teitan Press, 1991. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1910 first edition. One of Crowley's rarest works: part homo-erotic parody and part mystical text. Octavo. Original paper-covered boards over a red cloh spine, with gilt..... More
A BOOK OF SKETCHES
York Beach, Maine: The Teitan Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 252 of 418 copies. Reproduces in full a series of color and black-and-white drawings, mostly of women, from a sketchbook used by..... More
THELEMIC MAGICK: Unexpurgated Commented, Part I - being THE ORIFLAMME: Volume VI, Number 5
Rio de Janeiro: Society Ordo Tepli Orientis in Brasil, 1987. Trade paperback. Comprised of Chapters I-II of Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice, along with Motta's notes and commentary, as well as his controversial History..... More
THE MYSTIC SPELL: A Metaphysical Romance
Los Angeles: The Austin Publishing Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Southern California-based spiritualism and psychic experience themed romance novel written in epistolary form. Most of the letters are postmarked Santa Barbara, Pasadena, and Riverside. Octavo..... More
MYSTIC TALES OF LAMA TARANATHA: A Religio-Sociological History of Mahayana Buddhism
Calcutta: Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 1957. Second Edition. Hardcover. Translated into English by Bhupendranath Datta. 128 p. with a frontispiece portrait. Octavo. Original plain paper-covered boards. Some sparse marginalia, with ink notations to the rear flyleaf..... More
WHAT RELIGION IS in the words of Swami Vivekananda
New York: Julian Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. An Indian Hindu monk, Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a key figure in the introduction of the Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world, and is..... More
THE DIONYSIAN ARTIFICERS, With an Introductory Essay on the Myth of Dionysius by Manly P. Hall
Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hall on the front flyleaf. The first 58 pages are commentary by Hall, followed by da Costa's Sketch for the History of..... More