Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. First edition. [xiv], 201 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with typical cracking to publisher's cheap binding, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and a little foxing to flaps. The account of the Lutz family's..... More
[Clarksburg, WV]: [Gray Barker], 1958. Vol. 3, No. 1; April 1, 1958. Saucerian Publication #16. 6 pp. Stapled 8.5" x 11" sheets. Near Fine with very light wear. This issue of Gray Barker's UFO periodical covers the occult book The Third Eye by T. Lobsang Rampa and Barker's "feud" with..... More
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892. First edition in the English language. 318 + (8) pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. (Dated 1892 on title page. Last word of title spelled "Hindostan" throughout text block but not binding.) Very Good. Cloth worn at head and tail. Hinge a bit free..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. 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 ($5.95)..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author 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
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923. 368 pp. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light shelf wear. Small portion of front inner hinge exposed at the base, and rear hinge repaired. Vintage bookseller..... 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
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation. Later printing. Signed by Ram Dass on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Good. Covers creased and rubbed. Heavy creasing to top corners of roughly half the pages. Copies signed by the author are scarce. More
New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1954. First edition. (xvi), 362 pp. Green paper covered boards lettered in silver. Very Good+ with small ding to spine, dust-soiling, in toned Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with darkened spine panel, light wear. An enjoyable history of Atlantis (and other, slightly more obscure..... 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
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1949. Second edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to a former owner, "With very good wishes to Louise Evans, [signed] W. Y. Evans-Wentz / Santa Barbara December 16, 1950." University of California professor D.M. Brown, who drove many times over 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, 1954. First edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to a former owner, Louise Evans. University of California professor D.M. Brown, who drove many times over the hills and canyons above Santa Barbara with a septuagenarian Evans-Wentz scouting property on which to build an ashram..... More
New York: J. F. Tapley Co., 1923. First edition. 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 with light rubbing to covers. Previous owner name at front. Pages wavy throughout, though bright and with clear text..... 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, Publisher, 1932. First edition. 343 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering, red topstain. Bottom edge rubbed, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, rubbed, head-chipped, with a small creased tear to bottom of front panel that is mended with tape on verso. The American paranormal..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First edition. 249pp. Crimson ribbed cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with some scuffs and mottling to cloth but bright lettering. Owner's name and 1924 date written on paste down. Anomalies and inexplicable events by the namesake of the Fortean Society and the paranormal..... More
London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1907. Signed limited edition. Copy #44 of 100 numbered copies, signed by Aleister Crowley and Captain J. F. C. Fuller. Near fine, with cloth lightly soiled, toning to the spine, light foxing to free end sheets, and light staining to title and contents..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to covers, softening to corners and spine ends; spine faded with stamping rubbed. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper..... 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition. (Stated "first edition" on copyright page; was initially published in the Russian and Armenian languages. Trade issue.) 1238 pp. Blue cloth and gilt lettering. Very Good. No jacket. Former owner's name on free front endpaper. Cloth edges lightly bumped, very..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition. 1238 pp. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Light shelf wear, toning to pages with age, a few scuffs/foxing to edges and margins. A few small foxing marks in margins. Dust jacket well-creased along bottom edge, tape on verso, small..... More