United Kingdom: Issued by Imperial Tobacco Company, [1920-1929]. First Edition. From the back of card: "The Batak, or Bark Book of Charms, is a magical ritual implicitly believed in by the natives of Sumatra. It is consulted as a reliable guide and counselor in their private and important affairs. In.....
Price: $45.00
[Germany]: [1910]. First Edition. Playing the cards is experimenting with chance. This divinatory card game is a way of unraveling the will of fate and thereby mastering chance. Pythia was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and.....
Price: $200.00
Cincinnati, OH: United States Playing Card Co., [1950-1960]. Reprint. Original Wraps in Box. Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Playing Cards deck provides an easy-to-learn method of divination. Each Gypsy Witch card is numbered and displays a pictorial illustration of the card's symbolic meaning. Individual meanings of the cards are also written.....
Price: $55.00
c.1970. Broadside. Theater production handbill for 1970s musical "Hair," illustrated using the modified "Lovers" tarot card from the major arcana deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith. Smith is one of the most recognized book designers and divination deck artists of the Occult Revival period. A seemingly scarce piece of ephemera.....
Price: $40.00
Jos. Hallworth, [1915-1916]. Presenting weird demonstrations of occult power, marvelous feats of the Orient and startling wonders of the spirit world. Copyright by Jos. Hallworth. Early specimen of exoticism in turn of the century theater. Occult ephemera. Some chipping, otherwise in very good condition. Newsprint brochure, doublesided with illustrations.
Price: $65.00
Terrassiére, Genéve: U.I.P.D (Union Internationale des Professeurs de la Rythmique Jaques-Dalcroze), 1957, 1965-1966, 1971. First Edition. Staplebound. Published journal on the work and writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (6 July 1865 – 1 July 1950) who was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to.....
Price: $150.00
San Pablito, Mexico: c.1970-1979. Unique. The culture of amate/paper dates back to pre-Columbian, Meso-American people. The word amate derives from amatl, the indigenous Nahuatl word for paper. Mayan and Aztec Indians painted on amate/paper to create codices (accordion folded books) depicting stories historical events and even astrology. San Pablito, a......
Price: $300.00
Toronto, Canada: Anathema Publishing, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover/Cloth. "Stories of holy pilgrimages, transformative journeys & revelatory voyages. Come rest by the hearth’s fire and warm yourself, now that your travels are at an end. The night is long, and we are in no hurry. This is a time for reflection.....
Price: $80.00
San Francisco, CA: 2011. First Edition. Staplebound. Zine celebrating May Day with "sabotage." Essay on witches and the act of political action. Like new. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Unstapled, digest size with illus. (unpaged).
Price: $50.00
Nigeria: 1958. First Edition. Original Wraps. The central focus is the city of Ile-Ife; the author, the late J. A. Ademakinwa, was an Ife indigene. He puts the mythologies and traditions of his people to good use to speak to a host of subjects.". . . "Ademakinwa's book fulfills the.....
Price: $350.00
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1979. Second Edition (Enlarged). Original Wraps. Sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, it is an alternative healing medicine method, using light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. Using.....
Price: $55.00
United Kingdom: The Bookplate Society in association with Keriwen Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Austin Osman Spare – One of the most recognized occult artists who elicited emotion under the occult umbrella. In a purposeful way, he left a legacy of existentialism, perhaps the macabre, but more so rather.....
Price: $275.00
Mexico City: Editorial Pax, 1960. First Edition. Original Wraps. Study of the occult sciences. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Bound in original color wraps, pages evenly toned with mild foxing around edges, some edge wear. 164pp. In Spanish.
Price: $45.00
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Neat, professional repair to the inner joints and hinges by Sean Richards. Beginning in Chapter IX, "Natural Causes of Lycanthropy," an early owner has affixed old press clippings about child murders to approx. eight pages of text (in such a way.....
Price: $7,500.00
Indonesia: Early to mid-20th century. Unique. Hardcover. The 'pustaha' [named by the Batak people of interior province of northern Sumatra, Indonesia] are manuscript books constructed and composed by their "datu" or magicians and healers. Origins of the pustaha remain somewhat clouded to non-indigenous research, although, records of provenance date to.....
Price: $1,250.00
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Gulffort, MS: Gulfport Examiner, 1965-1967. First Edition. Staplebound. Belles-lettres, from the French, means writing that is fine or beautiful, crafted or polished. In this sense belles-lettres applies to all specifically literary work, including fiction, poetry and drama. Serial journal dedicated to literary writers and inspiration advocacy with features from Eudora.....
Price: $150.00
Los Angeles, CA: Theosophy Company [Theosophical Publishing Society], [1990] 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. This volume "purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature." "A photographic reproduction Of the Original edition.....
Price: $35.00
New York: Pilgrim Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "Indexed scientific guide to the meaning and use of dreams. The authors, who have specialized in dream research for a dozen years, point out that psychology has found dreams to be among the most effective of all instruments for discovery of one's.....
Price: $75.00
Germany [Berlin?]: c.1972. Limited Edition. "Uwe Bremer, born 1940, is one of the most prominent German graphic artists due to his fantastical compositions combined with fine-nerved ruling symbolically acting geometric body and surface relationships on mostly bright ground. In his work, elements of old star and sky maps, symbioses of.....
Price: $350.00
New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Original Wraps. Raymond Buckland, beloved teacher and a prolific author writes on the subject of candle magick and ritual use of light magic. Originally from England, Buckland became the High Priest of the Long Island Coven, the first American Gardnerian group in.....
Price: $150.00
San Diego, CA: Cochran-Buckland Enterprises, [1987]. First Edition. Original Wraps. Raymond Buckland, beloved teacher and a prolific author writes on the subject of candle magick and ritual use of light magic. Originally from England, Buckland became the High Priest of the Long Island Coven, the first American Gardnerian group in.....
Price: $100.00
San Diego, CA: Cochran-Buckland Enterprises, 1987 [1966]. First Edition [Reprint]. Original Wraps. Raymond Buckland, beloved teacher and a prolific author writes on the subject of candle magick and ritual use of light magic. Originally from England, Buckland became the High Priest of the Long Island Coven, the first American Gardnerian.....
Price: $100.00
Denver, CO: H.O. Wagner, 1967. Reprint (supplement). Staplebound Wraps. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, a group closely associated with - or possibly even the same as the better-known Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, of which Burgoyne was the Secretary. The Wagner's published a reprint of Burgoyne's work in 1963 and subsequently.....
Price: $40.00
Cambridge, UK: University Press, 1952. First 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: $45.00
Applegate, CA: Esoteric Publishing Co. ; Applegate Publishing Co., 1920. Twenty-third Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1887, Solar Biology simplified astrology by basing horoscopes on the sun and moon signs rather than complex planetary movements by radically simplifing a version of astrology during the 19th century. In the text, Butler.....
Price: $85.00