London: George Redway, 1886. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original turquoise cloth with spine stamped in gilt; with frontis reproducing a portrait in black and white of Madame Blavatsky painted by of H. Schmiechen. Near Fine with cloth lightly soiled, lightly worn, light spotting to rear cover. Former..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition. xxv, [1], 72pp. Original black cloth decorated in gilt, red, green, and white, gilt topstain. Very Good+ with rubbing to gilt on front cover, evidence of removed bookplate on paste down with former owner's stamps on front free endpaper and both paste..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1929. First edition, trade issue. Signed presentation copy from Szukalski's personal library with the inscription on dedication page, "Incidentally! By a good luck I met Rick Griffin who unknowingly is named after prehistoric Polish ancestors from Holy Riga on the Baltic. Be ever well..... More
Sylmar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1983. First edition. 94 pp. Stiff wrappers. A Near Fine copy with slightly bumped corners, wraps a little rubbed. Art and sculpture by the Polish-born artist. More
New York: Dolphin Books / Doubleday, 1987. First edition. Signed by Maury Terry on the half title with an early inscription to the former owner, dated 5/18/88. xiii, [1], 512 pp. Publisher's red cloth and black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Good+, slightly scuffed and soiled boards, faint tidemark..... More
New York: Dolphin Books / Doubleday, 1987. First edition. xiii, [1], 512 pp. Publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt.Near Fine with slightly foxed edges in Very Good dust jacket with light edge wear. A controversial investigatory book linking the Son of Sam murders with Charles Manson and..... More
New York: [No Publisher], 1908. TLS from inventor Nikola Tesla to Hereward Carrington, August 6, 1908. 1 pp. on Tesla’s personal stationery with the Tesla Laboratory in Long Island vignette heading. Folded, several pinholes to letter, "Tesla" written on verso in colored pencil. Includes original envelope with Tesla’s printed return..... More
[Los Angeles]: A Darkling Publication, [1941]. First edition. 2 pp. Single sheet of yellow paper hectographed in red on recto, green on verso. Very Good with small chip to corner, faint vertical crease through middle, small closed tear to edge, tiny stain noticeable on verso. A truly scarce fanzine; no..... More
London: Reeves & Turner, 1885. First edition. xxvi, [2], 165 pp. Bound in 20th century crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. An ex-library copy, noncirculating, with call number on spine, stamp on top edge, bookplate, institutional perforation to title page and page 63. Call number written on verso of title..... More
![Item #140942574 [Cartomancy; Teuila Fortune Telling Cards] Hand-drawn Vernacular Fortune Telling...](/pictures/thumb/140942574.jpg?v=1641186482)
[no place]: [no publisher]. [ca. 1960s?] A deck of vernacular hand-drawn fortune telling cards, seemingly copied from a deck of Teuila Fortune Telling Cards. 44 die-cut cards numbered numbered to 45 (card #3 is missing) measuring 2" x 3.5" with illustrations on rectos only in graphite and colored pencil, numbered..... More
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1979. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Vallee on half-title in black ink. viii, 243 pp. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, issued sans jacket. A Fine copy. Front and back boards are slightly different lengths; spine not at all cocked as the different board..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1975. First edition. Presentation copy signed by Jacques Vallee, warmly inscribed to occult writer Israel Regardie "with my admiration" on half title. Regardie's bookplate on paste down. viii, 216 pp. Publisher's cloth and boards. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn. A...... More
Oxford: Mrs. C.L.H. Wallace, [1883]. First edition. 135, [3], xii pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate gilt and black stamping, patterned endpapers. Very Good+ with light wear, a few tiny stains to cloth, a few spots of foxing to edges, hinges starting. A scarce vegetarian cookbook with..... More
Los Angeles: Hermes Press/ William Dailey Rare Books, 1998. 20th anniversary edition. Signed by discoverer of LSD Albert Hofmann, Carl Ruck (a historian who has written about the use of psychedelics in ancient Greece), mythologist Blaise Daniel Staples, and scholar of religious studies Huston Smith on title page. Additionally signed..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, [1958]. First British edition. xii, 192 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt stamping, red topstain Fine with black out line on copyright page, in Very Good dust jacket, worn along top edge, laminate toned. More
Los Angeles: National Psychological Institute, 1924. First edition. 390 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine. In the rare dust jacket, chipped at the head with a circular tear in the spine, a few other small tears. A spiritualist work on the..... More
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1981. First edition. Signed by Ken Wilber, warmly inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 17, 1982. xii, 372 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good, top edge foxed, a few pencil notes..... More
New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth. In Near Fine unclipped dust jackets with light rubbing and light wear..... More
New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jackets with light wear and light soiling, in Very Good publisher's original..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Signed by author on front free endpaper beneath former owner's name. 288pp. Brown cloth with silver and black lettering. First American edition, early printing or issue but not first. (No date on title page despite statement of "First printing" on copyright page. Deboss spot on..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. 60 + 4 pp ads. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards (Wade 25). Very Good. Small damp stain at head. Covers darkened with age and lightly marked..... More
Los Angeles: Yogoda and Sat-Sanga, 1929. First edition, first printing. Signed with blessings by Paramhansa Yogananda on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's vertically ribbed red cloth stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good with light staining to covers, dulling and oxidation to gilt stamping. Former owner has..... More