New York: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1988. First Edition. Slipcased. Illustrated and designed by artist Caroline Smith, this tarot deck is a reinterpretation of the traditional tarot system, but based on the four elements. Smith's approach to tarot is intuitive and symbolic, her system is simple and elegant, for anyone with basic knowledge.....
Price: $175.00
New York: Macmillan, 1948. First US Edition. Cloth. Eliza Butler, or Elsie (1885-1959) as she was more generally known, was born in Bardsea, Lancashire, into an old Irish family. She learnt German initially from her Norwegian governess, and was sent at the age of 11 to a private school in.....
Price: $100.00
London: Chapman & Hall, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pink wrappers bound in at rear. Binding signed by Samuel Tout. The Victorian binder worked in London from 1868-79 and later partnered with William Coward in a bindery in Whitechapel, returning to an independent shop in 1880 at the same location. 14.....
Price: $750.00
Leipzig: G. J. Göschen, 1790. First Edition Thus. Completely unsophisticated copy in original printer's wraps and uncut. Archival housing bears armorial bookplate of Claire Mendel, noted German Consul and collector. First single edition of the work that first appeared in Volume 7 of Goethe's writings in the same year. [Hagen (1983).....
Price: $500.00
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1886. First Edition/First State. Original Wraps. One of the unspecified number of copies which had the date hand-corrected in ink by the publisher from 1885 to 1886. Initially scheduled to be released for Christmas, 1885, it was delayed until 1886 due to the glut of.....
Price: $6,500.00
Carpe Noctum Press, 2003/2018. Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. "The book is an artist book by Sialia Rieke who recounts a story of an angel coming to earth and falling in love with a human. The bat is my interpretation of him flying to the woman on a cloudy day forming the.....
Price: $2,000.00
London: Rider & Co., 1931. First Edition. Cloth. The author considers magic and ritual to be "...a perfectly natural means of human expression: an attempt to control and heighten the emotions which are to man as true and as necessary as the intellect..." Smith writes of various kinds of magic.....
Price: $125.00
Los Angeles, CA: Phoenix Press, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. "This book constitues a simple and natural approach to the study of philosophy. It is an attempt to rescue the wisdom of the ancients from scholasticism's ponderosity..."--Introduction. Manly Hall's pivotal work for students studying mysticism. Scarce copies. Light shelf/edge wear, light.....
Price: $85.00
Privately Printed, 1933. [First Edition]. Mail-in correspondence from Zolar, famed early 20th century astrologer. This particular collection is an astrological character analysis for December, under the sun sign, Capricorn. The description analyzes both men, women, and children and discusses the qualities of the sign. Early and scarce astrology specimens. Three.....
Price: $45.00
[San Francisco, CA]: O.T.O. and Stellar Visions, [1984]. Reprint. Staplebound. As the title suggests, this work contains facsimiles of a number of O.T.O. related texts that were originally collected in Crowley's "Blue Equinox" (1919), comprising "Liber LII," "Liber CI," "Liber CLXI," "Liber CXCIV," and "Liber XV." The book was sanctioned.....
Price: $75.00
Atlantic, N.J.; Chicago, IL: [A.F. Seward], [1936]. Original Wraps. Typical mail-in astrological forecast and review of the planets for 1935, covering the dates of Capricorn, December 21-January 20th. Dr. A. F. Seward was known worldwide for his psychic skills and professional divination, including astrology readings, crystal gazing, fortune-telling, palmistry, and.....
Price: $50.00
Edwards, CO: Helen Hiebert Studio, 2010. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. I’ve been fascinated with light for as long as I can recall. As a child, I always looked for rainbows, and I enjoyed trying to identify every color, from red to violet. This book explores the wonder of that interaction.....
Price: $2,400.00
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Universal Library, complete and unabridged. Published anonymously and not attributed to Defoe until 1775, Roxana emerged as popular work in the eighteenth century. Reprinted frequently and with frequent alterations. A rather nice copy of an iteration that is sometime challenging.....
Price: $45.00
Boston, MA: Crosby and Ainsworth, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. W.J. Rolfe and J.A. Gillet, teachers in the high school, Cambridge, Mass. General astronomy book for all education levels. Color spectrum frontispiece. Light shelf/edge wear, loss at head and tail, rear board cracked and repaired, very minor foxing at preliminaries, else.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1869. Later Printing. Hardcover. Elias Loomis, LL.D., professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Yale College. Basic college level astronomy book and observation. Rebound in fine cloth board, marbled edging, yet clean, with foxing throughout, although text block unaffected. viii, [9]-346 pages, includes illustrations.....
Price: $250.00
New York: Leisure Goods and Services, Inc., [1975]. First Edition. Hard-core pornography buyer's guide newspaper collection featuring challenging sex and sexuality topics, including fringe fetish communities, alternative kink lifestyles, and LGBTQ communities. Interviews with porn stars, film makers, and others in the adult film industry. Minor toning, light wear/tear typical.....
Price: $100.00
[France]: [1980s]. First Edition. Underground French sex paper featuring challenging sex and sexuality topics, including fringe fetish communities, alternative kink lifestyles, and LGBTQ communities. A combination of fiction, edgy softcore photos, serious writing and drawings with plenty of socially redeeming context. Contains titles: Super-Gags (V6N8-9), Sexy Gags (V5N3,5); Fou Rire.....
Price: $150.00
Old Chelsea, New York: Milky Way Productions, Inc., [1980s]. First Edition. The underground sex paper featuring challenging sex and sexuality topics, including fringe fetish communities, alternative kink lifestyles, and LGBTQ communities. A combination of fiction, edgy softcore photos, serious writing and drawings with plenty of socially redeeming context. Ads for.....
Price: $200.00
Old Chelsea Station, NY: SMUT, [1976]. First Edition. Large format newsprint, colored printing on titles with numerous illustrations. The underground sex paper featuring challenging sex and sexuality topics, including fringe fetish communities, alternative kink lifestyles, and LGBTQ communities. A combination of fiction, edgy softcore photos, serious writing and drawings with.....
Price: $250.00
Pennsylvania/New York: Maureen Cummins, 2019. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards. Done as part of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project. "The project brought five artists into conversation with Syrian and Iraqi individuals resettled in Philadelphia. Cummins interviewed four participating families in 2018. The interviews captured the unspeakable losses experienced by.....
Price: $2,600.00
Paris et London: Privately Printed, [1930] 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Influenced by the Marquis de Sade’s libertine fiction, The Pleasures of Cruelty is one of the darkest Victorian flagellant novels, reveling in cruelty, degradation, and the pleasures of the rod. An extract entitled ‘The Sultan’s Reverie’ was published in William Lazenby’s.....
Price: $35.00
Paris et London: Privately Printed, [1930] 1898. Reprint. Stiff Boards. Influenced by the Marquis de Sade’s libertine fiction, The Pleasures of Cruelty is one of the darkest Victorian flagellant novels, reveling in cruelty, degradation, and the pleasures of the rod. An extract entitled ‘The Sultan’s Reverie’ was published in William.....
Price: $25.00
New York: Khepri Press, 2015-2019. First Edition. Staplebound. This is a collection of all seven zines plus an Introduction and On the Mystic, Magick, Talismanic, Alchemical Practice of Zine Making. From the Introduction: “Re-reading this collection I’m in thrall to its tactility and analogue affect. I get a palpable sense of Cotnoir.....
Price: $80.00
New York: Khepri Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Cloth. Alchemy is the art and science of bringing something to its final perfection, or its completion, much as a work of art is completed or perfected. And so, at heart it is about creation, creator, and creativity. Rooted the Alexandrian alchemical tradition.....
Price: $137.00
New York: Khepri Press, 2017. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Alchemy is the art and science of bringing something to its final perfection, or its completion, much as a work of art is completed or perfected. And so, at heart it is about creation, creator, and creativity. Rooted the Alexandrian alchemical.....
Price: $365.00