London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1901. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards over beige spine cloth with paper title label to spine printed in black. Near Fine with light rubbing through at corners and bottom edge, spine cloth slightly toned, title label toned as well..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1909-1910. First edition. The first four volumes (of ten total), Vol. I, Nos. I-IV. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed spine labels. Good condition overall, bindings worn and a little frayed, labels chipped and lacking on Nos. II and III. Front cover..... More
London: The O.T.O., 1939. First edition. Signed by Aleister Crowley and inscribed to Ralph Shirley on the front free end paper. Shirley was the editor of The Occult Review. Bound in publisher's brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt, with frontis portrait of Crowley. Very Good. Cloth faded and soiled, scratch..... More
London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. First edition. Signed by George Cruikshank on the front wrap. 48 pp. Publisher's blue wrappers. Very Good+, lightly worn at extremities and a little soiled. An expose of the various absurdities of spiritualism and their assumptions about the spirit world (he wonders why ghosts always appear..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First edition, first printing in the scarce cloth-bound issue. Bound in publisher's original sky-blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very Goof with wear at tips, light fraying to spine ends, slight lean to binding. Two former owner bookplates to front pastedown, slight sporadic soiling. A...... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing with no ISBN, no subsequent printing mentioned, $3.33 price at base of spine and Lama Foundation listed as the publisher on the rear cover. Bound in publisher's original purple and white printed wraps. Very Good with toning, soiling and..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing. Signed by Ram Dass and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original purple and white printed wraps; with no ISBN, no subsequent printing mentioned, $3.33 price at base of spine and Lama Foundation..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing. Signed by Ram Dass and inscribed to a former owner on the front endsheet and inscribed to a former owner, "Don - in the book written by nobody + owned by nobody we meet to know God". Bound in..... More
[San Cristobal, New Mexico]: Lama Foundation, 1970. First edition. Brown paper sheets bound with twine, mandala label mounted on front cover. Very Good with light edge wear, staining to cover affecting the first several pages. The mandala is slightly lifted along two edges. The prototypical form of the classic spirituality..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation. Later printing. Signed by Ram Dass on the title page, briefly inscribed. Near Fine with light rubbing and wear, but on the whole a nicer copy than as normally found. Copies signed by the author are scarce. More
London: Georgnes Newnes Ltd., 1920, 1921, 1923. The saga of mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the famous "fairy photographs," one of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, unfolds in three issues of the popular British magazine The Strand. Ironically, the creator of arch-logician Sherlock Holmes was publicly..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1950. First edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Browning to endsheets, gutters of prelims, and to spots on the top edge of page block. Black cloth is sharp and clean. The dust jacket shows light rubbing at extremities, and toning to the spine..... More
New York: Grass Roots Defense Committee, [1970]. First edition. 6 pp. Folded unbound sheets. Near Fine, a little toned with age. Uncommon: two copies in OCLC. An obscure pamphlet from 1970 calling for a radical leftwing/rightwing alliance to "go underground" (presumably together) and battle The Establishment. This grouping would take..... More
London, Paris, & Leipzig: Hippolyte Balliere, J.B. Balliere, & T.O. Wiegel; Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1843-1856. Complete run of the publication in 13 volumes. Various cloth bindings: vols. 7 & 11 are original, the others are in 20th century institutional cloth. A Fair+ ex-library set deaccessioned from the John..... More
Austin: Pyrimid Publishing Company, 1972. First edition. Signed by Roky Erickson diagonally on the front free endpaper. 70 pp. White cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with rubbing and a little foxing to boards, "Autographed Copy" sticker on front board. Rare thus. A self-published volume of poetry written by the..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. Third edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to "My brother on the path," Sri Deva Ram Sukul, an author and yogi. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First British edition. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, spine sunned and pages and pages lightly toned. A very attractive copy. The first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol, by American folklorist..... More
New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. Bound in publisher's dark brown leatherette binding over semi-flexible boards, with emblem stamped in gilt on front cover, in original glassine wrapper housed in original brown card-paper box with two publisher's prospectuses laid in. Fine, virtually as new, in a Near..... More
New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. Signed by Eugene Fersen in gold ink as "Svetozar", dated and inscribed to a former owner on the first blank sheet. Bound in publisher's dark brown faux-alligator leatherette binding over semi-flexible boards, with emblem stamped in gilt on front cover; lacking..... More
New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. Signed by Eugene Fersen in gold ink, and inscribed to feminist and birth control activist Margaret Sanger. Bound in publisher's dark brown faux-alligator leatherette binding over semi-flexible boards, with emblem stamped in gilt on front cover; lacking the box. Very Good..... More
London: The London Literary Society, [1888]. First edition. [iv],356 pp. Bound in publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth, front and rear covers ruled in black, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, floral endpapers. Very Good, slight lean to spine, rubbing along edges, foxing to edges and early pages. Scarce. Not in..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1919. First edition. 298 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Darkening to spine lettering, a few minor blemishes to cloth, else Fine. Contents clean and bright. Lacking extremely scarce dust jacket, but otherwise a superb copy. The American compiler of the..... More
New York: B.W. Dodge and Company, 1909. First edition,second state original blue cloth with red stamping, no gilt. 328pp. A Fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Faint crease to front flyleaf, hint of dust soil to top edge. An excellent copy of the only published novel by the famous..... More
New York: Claude Kendall, 1931. First edition. Signed by Charles Fort on the page following the front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to previous owner. That owner's regifting below. [x], 411 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Very Good with rubbing to spine lettering, slightly bumped corners..... More
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1925. First edition. 96 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with slight bowing to boards, foxing to edges and prelims, a few small spots of foxing to margins of contents. Former owner's name and info written on front free..... More