[No place]: [No publisher], ? Two copies of single-sheet typescript on thin paper, reproduced in blue ink. 2 pp. each. Number "1" and "Andy" written in blue pencil on upper margin of one sheet, "2" and the same name written on upper margin of verso of other sheet. Rust from..... More
London and New York: H. Bailliere, 1856. First edition. iv, 208 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped dark cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with slightly sunned spine, slight wave to text, a little foxing to contents, former owner's bookplate on paste down. Nice shape overall..... More
New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1939. Fourth edition. Signed by Alice A. Bailey on the title page. [xvi], 372 pp. Bound in publisher's dark teal cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear, offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner signature and bookplate to front free endpaper..... More
Clarksburg, WV: Saucerian Books, 1970. First edition, first printing. [viii], 151 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver. Very Good+ with moderate lean to binding, faint dampstain to cloth, light foxing to fore edge of text block and endpapers, light but pernicious staining to 48-57 pp. In a...... More
![Item #140940712 [Beecher & Stone on Spirit Rappings] A Review of the "Spiritual Manifestations.":...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140940712.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606974234)
London; London & Dublin: Thomas Bosworth; H. Bailliere & James McGlashan, 1853; 1852. xxxii, 93; [1], 256 pp. Later three quarter leather with pebbled cloth [?] sides, gilt design at front, gilt ruling to spine bands, black title band and gilt title label "Beecher & Stone on Spirit Rappings." Rare..... More
Mokelumne, CA: Health Research, [1980]. [v], 1-11, 12a, 12-59, 7 pp. Bound in publisher's side-stapled yellow wraps. Reprint, publisher's ads at rear dated January 1980. Contains some underlining and checkmarks in margins in pencil, else Very Good. A long essay by one of the better-known 20th century proponents of hollow..... More
Buffalo, NY: The Ellicott Press, [1933]. First edition. viii, 142 pp. with two re-order coupons intact. Bound in publisher's black suede covered wrappers lettered and decorated in gilt. Very Good with dulling to gilt, light soiling, chip to bottom edge of front wrapper and small closed tears to rear cover..... More
London: The Popular Phrenologist Company, 1896-1904. First edition. Complete in nine volumes with wrappers bound in, bound in three parts. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with bumped corners,offsetting to endpapers, former owner's name on front free endpapers and a few penciled notes to rear paste down, typical..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition. (First printing with complete number line at rear.) Signed by William Peter Blatty on the front free endpaper, inscribed in the year of publication "To Nancy- With all my best, + the hope you'll avoid Princess phones! Bill Blatty May 28, 1971."..... More
London & New York: The Theosophical Publishing Company; William Q. Judge, 1888. First edition, first printing. Two volumes, British sheets with American publisher's (Judge's) imprint at foot. xlvii, 676; xiv, [2], xxx, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with..... More
Bombay: The Theosophical Society, 1879-80. 1879-1880. First edition of the first theosophical magazine. Issue numbers 1 through 12 comprising the complete first volume, bound together by the publisher in contemporary red cloth with a brown morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Quarto. [2, general title and printer's slug], iii, [Index..... More
![Item #140943889 From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan [Hindustan]. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140943889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660599164)
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892. First edition in the English language. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing the the cloth, light waer at spine ends, light marking to rear cover. Thin blemish to front pastedown, stray mark to rear paste down..... More
London: The Theosophical Publishing, Company, Limited, 1888. First edition, first printings; British sheets with American publisher's (Judge's) imprint. An ex-library set bound in mismatched navy blue buckram with typical library markings. Good only with original spine clumsily laid over spine on volume I. Tipped-in 2 pp letter dated Aug 16..... More
Antique cabinet card photograph depicting a portrait of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875, gaining an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy. Image measures roughly 3.75" x 5.5", mounted on card stock measuring 4" x 6.5". Near Fine with trivial edge..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1905. First edition. Three volumes in publisher's original cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to cloth, bookseller ticker to front paste downs, pages tanned and with a few light pencil markings. A work which describes the Tuat..... More
London: Martin Hopkinson and Company Ltd., 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight wear to corner and spine ends, former owner name to front paste down and endsheets browned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning..... More
Sonoma, CA: Truth Burbery, 1924. First edition. 69 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed stiff wrappers printed in black. Very Good, wrappers lightly worn and soiled, handwritten recipe in pencil on p. 66. Probably the second, and much more extensive, publication of Indian recipes in America, written by a Caucasian..... More
Glen Ridge, NJ: Self Published, 1923. A manuscript of outsider meditations on science, religion, and metaphysics in the forms of poetry, prose, mathematical equations, and illustrations. [i], 36 pp. 37 sheets written recto only in cursive script with several sketched illustrations. Loosely bound with cord through two Clarke & Baker..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1951. First edition, first printing. 225 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with black stamping. Very Good, cup ring to front board, in a Very Good dust jacket with toning, light edge wear, a few small abrasions to front panel, unclipped ($3.50). An uncommon..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. [xii], 196 pp. Dark grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hint of foxing to edges, light shelf wear. Jacket has some rubbing, some small tears and small creases at extremities, price intact..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Carlos Castaneda and inscribed to a previous owner, "To Jaqueline, on the day we climbed from the cellar to the attic and back to the cellar again [signed] Carlos Castaneda / Los Angeles, May 25th 1969." Bound..... More
Philadelphia: Culture Craft for Beth Hephzibah, 1974. First edition. 140, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's yellow illustrated wraps. Good with dampstaining to back wrap, marginal tidemark extending to the last 30 pages or so, light wear. Scarce, no copies located in OCLC. A publication by the leader of a...... More
Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman on the title page. [vi], 186 pp. Bound in publisher's printed magenta wraps. Near Fine with light wear to covers. A signed book by two prominent cryptozoologists, dedicated to John Keel and..... More
Essex: Earthquest Books, 1985. First edition. 42, [2] pp. Staplebound in publisher's stiff wraps. Near Fine. A rare account of sightings of flying beast, described by many as looking like a griffin, in West London in March 1985. Dedicated to Mothman Prophecies author John Keel. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1879. First edition. Complete in two volumes. xvi, 428, [1]; xii, 472 pp. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's russet cloth with gilt stamping, brown endpapers. Very Good+ with light rubbing, darkening to spines, small pieces of front free endpaper stuck to half title, occasional light foxing, a...... More