New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. First American edition. viii, 390, [2] pp. with both fold-out charts. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good+, rubbing to back board, a little foxing to edges, a few reading smudges. Uncommon in such nice..... More
New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Company, 1927. First edition. [vi], 418 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with navy lettering. Very Good with very clean cloth and bright contents, glue stain to front free endpaper as well as slightly sticky ghost from removed label, a few spots of foxing to..... 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
Paris: [No Publisher], 1933 (but actually later). Earliest reprint, with registration blank numbered 00362. [5]-88 pp. Bound in publisher's navy wraps with gilt lettering. Near Fine, an attractive copy. Pages slightly toned with age. The spiritual leader's first published work. 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
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
New York: Saturday Review Press & E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1975. First edition. [xii], 269 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and paper covered boards, lettered in silver. Near Fine with bookplate on paste down, pages toned with age, in a dust jacket with no fading, small chip at..... More
Lancaster, PA: Examiner Printing House, 1900. First edition. vi, [17]-290 pp. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, floral endpapers. Fair with wear, loss to cloth along spine panel, spine glued down, amateurish repair to front hinge with glue and tape, some neat ink underlines throughout text..... More
Paris: Librairie de Paulin, 1843. First edition. Signed by Claude Francois Lallemand on the title page, inscribed with a flourish on his signature that zig-zags across the word "Hachych," which alludes to the closing lines of the novel: “Il n’existe, d’ailleurs, d’autre trace de signature qu’un énorme zigzag allant jusqu’au..... More
San Francisco: Murgenstrumm, 1968. Original pressing. (Typo with LaVey described as a “physical researcher” and not a psychical researcher on the rear cover.) Vinyl LP in sleeve. Very Good with light wear and minor scratches in a Very Good sleeve, bright with some edge wear. Recorded at the Church Of..... More
Seacaucus, NJ: University Books, 1972. First hardcover edition. 220 pp. Bound in publisher's bright red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing along bottom edge and a hint of foxing to edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with wear from a removed sticker visible on the front..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1914. First American edition, first printing. xxxvi, 536 pp. with 20 illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt stamping and topstain, tissue-guarded frontis of the author. Very Good with cracked hinges that are holding; textblock fallen; light wear at tips; contents bright. In the..... More
Cincinnati: John Uri Lloyd, 1895. First edition, limited issue. Signed twice by the author: in ink at the end of a two-page facsimile note at the front, as issued, and signed on bookplate at front, numbered 317 in the Author's edition. One of approximately 1200 copies. xiii, [1], 376 pp..... More
New York: New American Library, 1963. First American edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light foxing to edges, boards slightly bowed, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and shelf wear, tiny chip near foot, a little foxing to..... More
New York: New American Library, 1963. First American edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Top and fore edges heavily foxed, otherwise in nice shape, in a Very Good dust jacket, tiny chip at head, light rubbing, unclipped ($5.95). The book that introduced many..... More
Frankfurt: Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1708. First edition in German. [4], 153 pp. With 50 half-page engraved emblematic illustrations. Bound in period vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good, normal discoloration to vellum; old ink notes in German on front endpaper and in margin of title page, expected modest foxing and..... More
London: George Redway, 1896. First edition. Complete in two volumes, library rebinds in different navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library copies, noncirculating, with bookplates on paste downs, textual marks, perforations to plates, barcode sticker on front board of Vol. II. Top edge of Vol. II has stamp as well..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First edition. Signed by Terence McKenna diagonally on the page facing the title page. xxii, 313 pp. Bound in publisher's original green paper-covered boards over black spine cloth stamped in bronze. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with two tiny laminate bubbles to front..... More