[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, New Mexico]: Lama Foundation, 1970. First edition. Brown paper sheets bound with twine, mandala label mounted on front cover; extremely rare in original mailing box and with all supplements present: Painted Cakes Do Not Satisfy Hunger; Cook Book for a Sacred Life; quotation booklet; Our-Story My-Story Your-Story His-tory;..... 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
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, 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
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
Paris: Jean-Claude Gawsewitch, 2005. First edition of the complete text. 239 pp. Text in French and an unknown language. Beautiful full-color illustrations of strange plants, women, and more. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light bumping to corners, very faint rubbing to jacket. The first publication of the famous..... More
Rochester, N.Y: [Published by the Author], 1908. First edition of the African American author's first book, a book of poetry dedicated to institutions of which he was a member, in particular the Fremasons. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth lettered in white. Very Good with wear at corners and spine..... More
Aberdeen: Impulse Books, 1970. First edition. xiii, [1], 125 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with former owner's name on front free endpaper, a little foxing to edges, edge-rubbing to cloth, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little rubbed and shelfworn. A book about..... More
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[Printed by Harold Snelling], [c. 1920]. A complete collection of five photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright between 1917 and 1920. One of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, perpetrated by two young cousins age 16 and 9. Armed with a camera, the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition, trade issue. ix, [1], 1238 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with splash stain to fore edge that does not intrude into margins, light wear and mottling to cloth, tiny remnant of bookseller's stamp on..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1920. First edition. Signed by Harry Houdini twice: inscribed to former owner, Allan Warshauer, manager of the Orpheum Theatre in Oakland, CA where Houdini did an escape stunt on 3/26/23, dated. Also flat-signed "Houdini" on the dedication page. xiv, 240pp. Bound in publisher's tan..... More
Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Co., 1966. First edition. Signed by Kathryn Hulme on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. [x], 306 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, front stamped in blind, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First edition. 301 pp. Bound publisher's red and blue striped cloth, white spine lettering, pictorial endpapers. Very Good with rubbing along edge of cloth, slight crease to spine, stamp on front free endpaper. Lacking jacket. The Their Eyes Were Watching God author's account of a...... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth stamped in black. Very Good with mottling and toning to cloth, light wear at extremities. Browning to endsheets and sporadic foxing throughout. More
[London]: New English Library, 1971. First edition. Signed by June Johns on the half title. 128 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Good only with two diagonal creases through book, light edge wear, pages toned with age. A British guide to the history of the occult and its practitioners circa..... More
New York: Julian Messner Inc., 1957. First edition. 249 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with blue spine lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, a little edge-worn, price-clipped. The first book by the author of The Mothman Prophecies, an entertaining travelogue of magic in..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1975. First British edition. (Also the first hardcover edition, following the American paperback original.) 288 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt. UFO researcher and longtime MUFON member Frederick Chaffee's copy with his inscription and bookplate on front free endpaper, else Fine in Fine dust..... More