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[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover in solander box. Quarto. Deluxe Edition of 37 hand-numbered copies only, though the number of this copy is hand-written as #18 of 34 copies. The book is signed by Peter Hamilton-Giles. Book is bound in full black goat with elaborate red and gold foil blocking to front and rear, spine with raised bands with a uniform gilt design in each panel. All edges gilt, red and black head and tail bands, black book ribbon. The solander box is bound in quarter black goat meeting nonpareil marbled paper with vertical gilt decorations along edges of leather. Spine of box has seven raised bands with title and gilt devices to panels. Edges and inside of box are in black velvet with a blind embossed insignia inside on the left hand side. Also included are a sigillic piece of artwork (by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles) which has been drawn from one of the points mentioned in the book. Printed on 120 gsm Munken Rough. 415 pages. Full page illustrations by Carolyn… Leer más

[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 314 pp. Deluxe Edition: Limited to only 33 signed and siglized copies. Book is contained in a solander box in marbled quarter Moroccan presentation and foil blocking, swathed in black goat leather. The book itself is bound in full black leather highly decorated in two foil block colours, marbled endpapers, book ribbon, head and tail bands, foil blocking on the inside casement front and back, and each book copy with its own unique piece of sigillic artwork by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles. Each piece of artwork will bind an aspect of the volume into that specific copy. The book is signed and sigilized by Peter Hamilton-Giles. A fine copy in a fine solander box. This work examines the role of the Black Dragon’s sinistral horn as a physical and yet liminal position between physical and metaphysical realities. Building on the work of Volume 1 and Codex Althaeban Malik, Volume 2 underscores the development of telluric sorcery… Leer más

At New Cythera, no date [1925]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (10 x 13 inches). Text in French. 80 pp. In a beautiful full morocco binding (signed Max Fonseque) with 5 raised bands and gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and preliminary pages. Printed on cream vellum with the "Lafuma paper mills" watermark. 20 full page erotic plates engraved by Coiny after Carrache. A near fine copy. Quite uncommon. A superb facsimile of the extremely rare Didot edition of 1798, featuring 20 highly explicit plates showing the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures (Mars and Venus, Jupiter and Juno, and many more). Includes four superb satyr and faun engravings. 20 plates in all in fantastic detail. A right tour de force, as they say!

Ixaxaar Occult Literature, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Limited to 434 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 195. Black cloth with silver stamped titles and seal to front. Spine titled in silver. Black endpapers. 212 pages. Black and white illustrations, seals, and sigils. Exceedingly scarce in the first edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This book of the Scythe-Bearer provides a solid theoretical, historical and mythical foundation for the Cult of the Left-Handed Reaper, and offers clear instruction for ritual practice connected to both the folk-magical tradition, as well as the more sinister, hidden line of traditional witchcraft connected to the Cult of the Skeletal Lord of the Bloody Scythe. Written by the Magister of the Temple of the Black Light and the Templum Falcis Cruentis, and illustrated with selected original artworks depicting the esoteric manifestations of the Lord of Death, Liber Falxifer presents a unique and powerful system of both low… Leer más

[UK]: Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2009. First Edition. Leather bound. fine. Deluxe limited edition of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Billy Rennie (an initiated member of the Society). Small oblong quarto. 184pp. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in plates. Bound in full leather limp binding, using the same kind of leather that is used for horse harnesses. The front cover is decorated with a horse shoe design blocked in iron foil using a real horseshoe as a dye. The nail holes are picked out in genuine gold, as these have a significance to Society members, as explained in the book. The title is blocked in genuine gold. This deluxe copy has a small wages envelope tipped in on the front pastedown. Inside is a horsehair knotted in a special way which, historically, was the way by which potential members were invited to join the society (the horsehair-filled envelope being placed on the potential member’s bed). Some very light wear to the leather otherwise a fine copy. This clandestine esoteric society… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 1969. Second Printing. Large quarto. Title page in red and black. xiv + 118 pp. + 70 full-page b/w plates and additional illustrations including one fold-out diagram. Some edge and corner wear, dust jacket is price clipped with some mild wear. A very good copy in like dust jacket. This is the scarcest volume of this series. The earliest version of religious texts of ancient Egypt, which are today generally known as the Pyramid Texts, appeared first on the walls of the burial chambers of King Unas, in his pyramid at Sakkara, near Cairo. These potent spells were inscribed in order to assist the king's passage from his earthly body into the world of the beyond, and they imply the recognition of his human qualities that must undergo divine transformation after death. As the first of the pyramids to bear inscriptions in its interior, it is one of the oldest literary documents not only of Egypt but of mankind itself. The inscriptions of Unas are a relatively late discovery,… Leer más

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Two Volumes. 1148 total pages. Bound in black cloth with silver spine titles. In original pictorial dust jackets. Illustrated with b&w photographs and illustrations. A near fine set in like dust jackets. Note: Photos show some camera glare from the mylar dust jacket covers. S. T. Joshi s award-winning biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi's original manuscript, and this expanded and updated edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in addition, updates the texts with new findings from Lovecraft research since Joshi's original biography was issued. This is a monumental work and will remain until the end of time, the most definitive work on Lovecraft's life.

Dublin: Kerubim Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 362 pp. Limited to 100 hardcover copies (this is No. 17) SIGNED by Nick Farrell on publisher’s bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Illustrated in b&w. 2 tiny corner bumps, otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. Extremely scarce in hardcover. Over the years many myths have built up about one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers. Many of these have been created by those who wish to damn the Golden Dawn and its system of magic or by those who want to naively believe a bogus magical story about the Order and its founders. In King Over the Water, Golden Dawn magician Nick Farrell paints a picture of the founders of the Golden Dawn becoming out of their depth as the Order began to create magicians. Rather than painting Mathers as an eccentric genius, Farrell sees him as an autocratic fantasist. He sees Mathers struggling to keep up as his students rapidly became… Leer más

UK: Hell Fire Club Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 2 Volumes. Limited to 251 hand-numbered copies in slipcase. The first volume is bound in dark green toad-effect sangrain from a vintage roll of material produced by the Ratchfords Mill in Manchester in the 1950s. Along with the main volume showing Alex Sander's notebook (details below), a second, cloth-bound volume is included with a complete transcript. Both are housed in a cloth slipcase with sangrain edges. The books are both in fine condition in a fine slipcase. The notebook contains material reflecting the hereditary witchcraft traditions of Northern England, the rituals and practices of both Gardnerian Wicca and later Alexandrian Witchcraft, as well as the teachings of Aleister Crowleys sexual magick, the ‘Key of Solomon’ and instructions for ritual and spiritual practices culled from surviving lineages of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In Alex’s hand, the notebook is a remarkable fusion of traditional… Leer más

Munich: Theion Publishing, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 207pp. Auric Edition hand-bound in full "Kosmic Blue" leather (looks black) complemented by a consecrated silver talismanic pendant in the shape of a three-legged spinning, rotating sun wheel spraying telesmatic light, to front panel, enclosed within a blind-stamped border. Same border design to back panel. Limited to 80 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 50. With b&w photographs. A near fine copy. This groundbreaking release is the first authoritative work on Ludwig Klages and his pagan metaphysics ever to be published in English. Without a doubt Klages is one of the most intriguing and enigmatic pagan thinkers of the early 20th Century. A figure of great controversy he radically rejected Christianity and Monotheism in favor of a pan-daemonic paganism. Advocating the return to primordial states of consciousness through magico-erotic encounters with the living powers of the ensouled cosmos, Klages was a driving… Leer más

Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal Folio (measures 20 x 14 inches). Limited to 1000 deluxe hand-numbered copies this being No. 741. xxiii + 100 full page b&w engravings on heavy card stock. Captions for each plate on facing page. Bound in quarter brown leather over brown boards. Endpaper maps. Housed in a sturdy slipcase. Slipcase has some wear and markings. A near fine copy in a very good slipcase. An uncommon title. Note: this is a very large and heavy book. When packaged for shipping it weighs nearly 15 pounds. Additional shipping charges will be required for international orders. With 100 amazing full page engravings showing ancient ruins and monuments of Egypt as well as imagery of Muslim Egypt. A spectacular production.

Bolingbrook, IL: The Teitan Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lamen to upper front panel. Spine titled in gilt. 416 pages, b/w photographs. Former owner's name neatly inked (small) to top right of front free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Others covered here are Jack Parsons, C.F. Russell, Jane Wolfe, Max Schneider, Louis Culling, Grady McMurtry, and many more. Much of the source material that Starr worked with came directly from Smith's wife, Helen Parsons Smith.

London: Jerusalem Press, 2015. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in quarter purple leather over white cloth boards. Silver spine titles. Marbled endpapers. Page marker ribbon. Litho printed. Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 51. Book is signed by the author and laid in is an original signed ink drawing by the author, and a facsimile invitational card to a Spare exhibition from 1909. 250 pages. An errata slip is also present. Includes two plates sections in color, plus over 100 illustrations in black and white. A fine copy in like dust jacket, in a fine cloth-covered slipcase with large silver design to front panel. A fantastic production. Comprising a revised and much expanded republication of the long out of print books ‘The Early Work…’ and ‘The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare’, this volume features 93 color images and includes 50 unpublished artworks by Spare. In addition, it features 20 very early ink drawings from a recently discovered… Leer más

London: Privately Published, 1894. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (12.5 x 9.5 inches). 1894 facsimile of the 1865 edition. Bound in early 20th century half calf over boards. Gilt rules along leather. Spine with 5 raised bands with titles and decorations in compartments. This edition limited to 500 numbered copies, printed from type, twenty-five of which are large paper copies. This volume is one of the large paper copies though it is not numbered. Marbled endpapers. 254 pages plus 40 pages of black and white erotic plates at end of volume. Printed on thick paper. Some rubbing to boards and along edges of leather, slight indentation to lower front right edge. A very good or better copy of this large paper edition. This work, which was Knight’s first book (first published in 1786) sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults. Knight's apparent preference for ancient sacred eroticism over Judeo-Christian puritanism led to many attacks on him as an infidel and as a… Leer más

London: Privately Published, 1894. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (12.5 x 9.5 inches). 1894 facsimile of the 1865 edition. Bound in contemporary quarter leather over brown buckram boards. Spine titled in gilt. This edition limited to 500 numbered copies, printed from type, twenty-five of which are large paper copies. This volume is one of the large paper copies and is numbered "Twenty Five." Marbled endpapers. 254 pages plus 40 pages of black and white erotic plates presented throughout the text (some copies of this edition had all the plates bound at the end). Printed on thick paper. Some wear to the leather on spine and along spine edges. Edge and corner wear. Small catalog listing of this title affixed to front pastedown. Front hinge cracked but does not affect the binding. A very good of this large paper edition. This work, which was Knight’s first book (first published in 1786) sought to recover the importance of ancient phallic cults. Knight's apparent preference… Leer más

Original pointillistic study in black ink measuring 117 x 97mm in A4 white card frame. This item is from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). Comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in near fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. Description from Provenance card; "genitalia take on sigil-like crab form, deeply ambiguous.

[UK]: Hell Fire Club Books, 2023. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Six volumes in slipcase. Though not stated this production is said to be limited to only 14 sets. All volumes hand-bound in black quarter leather over blue cloth with gilt Egyptian design to front. Black endpapers. Text printed in black and red inks throughout onto high quality Rives Tradition 120gsm cream paper (first 5 volumes only). All six volumes contained in a blue cloth slipcase with gilt Egyptian design to front panel. Fine all around. The first three volumes are based upon Aleister Crowleys own first edition issued in 1909, the fourth volume contains other Holy Books not issued in the first edition, whilst volume five is a complete text of the Book of the Law suitable for both private and Temple use. Originally the volumes of ‘THELEMA’ were issued one at a time as the aspirant progressed through the successive grades of the Outer College of the Order. The publishers have kept much of the presentation and… Leer más

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 475 pp. Black cloth with copper spine titles. A few b&w images. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce. This is the first comprehensive collection of Dali's shorter writings to appear in English. The volume includes almost all of his writings published in the 1920s and 1930s, most of which appear here for the first time in an English translation. It also offers a substantial selection of Dali's short pieces from the 1940s and later, including excerpts from some of his book-length publications. the texts are accompanied by extensive commentaries and annotations that serve to illuminate the rich intellectual background and the broad range of references brought by Dali to his writings.

Original pointillistic study in black ink measuring 141 x 76mm in A4 white card frame. This item is from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). Comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in near fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. Description from Provenance card; "Shimmering lines surround what may be an eye or orifice above countered by a variant shade version below.

Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1925. First Edition. 2 Volumes in original wrappers plus a third volume (atlas) in a hardcover portfolio with string ties and loose plates inserted (as issued). Small quarto. Text in French. Volume One (Expose): 220 pp. Volume Two (Les Textes Magiques): 236 pp. Volume Three (Atlas): a portfolio consisting of over 160 photographic images and line drawings shown on 71 loose plates (all present). Both text volumes remain largely unopened along top edge. A fine, complete and unread set. A detailed study of ancient Egyptian magic from the time of the Old Kingdom to that of the Copts. The author is considered to be the founder of Egyptology in Czechoslovakia. Lecsa states in the introduction: "A large number of magical texts of the ancient Egyptians have been preserved to this day, but only a few of them have been published until now, and only a part has been studied and translated. It is therefore impossible for me to offer readers the translations of all… Leer más