AHA
Dallas, TX: Sangreal, 1969. 8vo, 76 pp, green cloth titled in silver foil. No dust jacket. Presents Crowley's long poem, here with an afterword by Israel Regardie. Near fine. More about AHA
Esotericism & the Occult
Amrita. Essays in Magical Rejuvenation.
Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. 8vo, 60 pp, bound in gilt-stamped purple cloth. Color frontis. No dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Edited, and with an introduction by Martin P. Starr. Foreword by Soror Grimaud. Cloth faded at extremities, else clean and very good. More about Amrita. Essays in Magical Rejuvenation
De Arte Magica
San Francisco: Level Press, nd [c. 1960's]. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 999 copies. With an introduction by Frater N. Near fine with some minor dustiness to wraps. More about De Arte Magica
The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1979. First American edition. 8vo, 251 pp, hardcover in dust jacket. the first American edition, edited by Stephen Skinner. Very good, with a slight cock to the spine and some moderate page-toning, in a very good jacket a bit rubbed at extremities. More about The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley
The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
Chapel Hill & London: Teitan Press, 1991. 8vo, 137 pp, quarter red cloth with gilt titles backing white boards printed in red. No dust jacket. A facsimile edition of the very rare first edition, which was largely lost due to censorship. This facsimiled edition adds an introduction by Martin P.... More about The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden
Chicago: Teitan Press, 1986. 8vo, 197 pp, bound in gilt-stamped white cloth. Edited, and with a prolegomenon by Martin Starr. First edition thus. A long overdue reprint of the work first published anonymously in 1904, and later largely destroyed by customs. Fine in a dust jacket that has some very... More about Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden
White Stains
New York: Earth Religions Supplies, nd. 8vo, 118 pp, bound in gray buckram with white titles. No dust jacket as issued. C. 1970's reprint. Some faint page toning and a small abrasion to first blank, else near fine. More about White Stains
The Winged Beetle
Chicago: Teitan Press, 1992. 8vo, 228 [1] pp, bound in brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. No dust jacket as issued. A facsimile edition of the work first published in 1910 in a limited edition, here with a foreward by Martin Starr. Fine. More about The Winged Beetle
Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence
york Beach: Teitan Press, 2010. First edition. 8vo, xlviii, 136pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles. One of a limited edition of 777 numbered copies, this an early number, with a bookplate signed by Bogdan and Matthews tipped onto ffep. Fine. More about Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence
O.T.O. Rituals and Sex Magick
np: I-H-O Books, 1999. First edition. 8vo, 498 pp, printed wraps. Illustrated. Issued by order of the literary executor of Aleister Crowley, and increasingly fugitive since publication. Spine well-creased from reading, but this remains a sturdy very good copy, with the binding still very sound. More about O.T.O. Rituals and Sex Magick
The Equinox Vol. V, No. 2. The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism
Nashville: Thelema Publishing Company, 1979. First edition. 4to, 404 pp, bound in redboards titled in gilt. This issue notable for including two of Fernando Pessoa's esoteric poems, Poem in a Straight Line, and The Eight Poem of the Keeper of the Herds, here translated in to English by Motta. Some... More about The Equinox Vol. V, No. 2. The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism
Red Flame No. 3. A Thelemic Research Journal. Friends & Acquaintances of Aleister Crowley
Berkeley: Red Flame, 1998. First edition. 4to, 226, [4] pp, photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 156 copies. This issue is devoted to Crowley's relationships with other figures in his time, a remarkable work. Wraps faded, with the final leaf and back cover pulling away a bit... More about Red Flame No. 3. A Thelemic Research Journal. Friends & Acquaintances of Aleister Crowley
Red Flame No. 4. A Thelemic Research Journal. The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference
Berkeley: Red Flame, 1997. First edition. 4to, 215 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 156 copies. An index and bibliography of Crowley's work, a remarkable work of scholarship, 27410 An about very good copy, with some fading to the wraps, especially at the spine, and a 2"... More about Red Flame No. 4. A Thelemic Research Journal. The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference
Red Flame No. 5. A Thelemic Research Journal. Yî King: A Beastly Book of Changes
Berkeley: Red Flame, 1998. First edition. 4to, 226, [4] pp, photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 156 copies. This issue documents Crowley's work with the I Ching or Book of Changes, an important work of scholarship. Wraps faded, with the final leaf and back cover pulling away... More about Red Flame No. 5. A Thelemic Research Journal. Yî King: A Beastly Book of Changes
Red Flame No. 7. A Thelemic Research Journal. The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley
Berkeley: Red Flame, 1999. First edition. 4to, vii, 190 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 156 copies. The stapled binding has become detached from the outer wraps, thus good only with fading along the spine- but is otherwise complete and sound. A very scarce issue of the journal. More about Red Flame No. 7. A Thelemic Research Journal. The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley
Red Flame No. 8. A Thelemic Research Journal. Liber Al Vel Legis (The Book of the Law)
Berkeley: Red Flame, 2000. First edition. 4to, iv, 210 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 156 copies. A touch of fading along the spine, else a near fine example. More about Red Flame No. 8. A Thelemic Research Journal. Liber Al Vel Legis (The Book of the Law
Psalter of Cain
Hercules & Macclesfield: XOANON, 2012. First edition. 8vo, 109 pp, hand-bound in scarlet linen with titles embossed in gilt, and serpentine-embossed endsheets. One of a limited edition of 701 numbered copies of the standard edition, from a larger edition of 888 copies. Letterpress printed by Joel Benson at Dependable Letterpress... More about Psalter of Cain
Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems
York Beach, Maine: Nicolas-Hays, 2002. First edition. 8vo, 461 pp, bound in navy cloth ruled in blind and titled in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, including fold-out plates. Includes index. Near fine, with a slight sag to the text block, in a fine dust jacket. More about Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems
Serpent Songs
np: Scarlet Imprint, 2013. First edition. 8vo, 214 pp, bound in gilt-stamped cloth. No dust jacket as issued. One of a limited edition of 750 copies. "Serpent Songs is an anthology of the voices of Traditional Craft: the words and works of those who remain untamed, cunning folk, exorcists, pellars... More about Serpent Songs
The Hieroglyphic Monad
London: John M. Watkins, 1947. 8vo, 76 pp, bound in gilt-stamped blue cloth. Printed dust jacket. illustrated with diagrams. Translated with a commentry by J. W. Hamilton-Jones. The translation here was based on the 1591 second edition, and was made with reference to Grillot de Givry's important French translation of... More about The Hieroglyphic Monad
A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee & Some Spirits [of Spirits and Apparitions].
Glasgow & Portmeirion: The Antonine Publishing Company & The Golden Dragon Press, 1974. Folio, [84], 448 [i.e. 348], 45, [4] pp, bound in heavy beige cloth, with gilt-stamped leather spine labels. Illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a sage cloth slipcase with decorative paper pastedown stamped in silver foil. One of... More about A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee & Some...
The Diaries of John Dee
Oxfordshire, UK: Day Books, 1998. First edition. 8vo, hardcover in dust jacket. Fine in a jacket which shows a couple of faint indents else fine. More about The Diaries of John Dee
John Dee on Astronomy: Propaedeumata Aphoristica (1558 And 1568) Latin and English
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 8vo, 264 pp, bound in blue cloth. Printed dust jacket. A reprint of the two editions of the Propaedeumata Aphoristica. Edited and translated by Wayne Shumaker, with an introductory essay by J. L. Heilbron which focuses on mathematics and physics. Spine slightly... More about John Dee on Astronomy: Propaedeumata Aphoristica (1558 And 1568) Latin and English
The Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)
New York: Science History Publications, 1975. 8vo, bound in gilt-stamped black cloth. No dust jacket. With folding plate bound in at rear. A facsimile edition, prepared from the first edition of 1570. Fine. More about The Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570
The Complete Enochian Dictionary. A Dictionary of The Angelic Language, As Revealed to John Dee and Edward Kelly.
London: Askin, 1978. First edition. 8vo, 272 pp, bound in black cloth intricately embossed in gilt. No dust jacket as issued. An important work, including dictionary and a section of Enochian calls. Includes bibliography. Paper very slightly toned, spine ends a touch softened. Near fine. More about The Complete Enochian Dictionary. A Dictionary of The Angelic Language, As Revealed to John Dee...