Paris: Acéphale, 1937-38. Large 8vos, each issue saddle-stapled in wraps, 3/4 a double number. With errata slip laid into the second number The first four issues, lacking only the rare fifth number. Acéphale was the public review of the secret society of the same name, Each issue of Acéphale was..... More

Lisboa: F. Silva, [1893]. 8vo, 24 pp, bound in printed wrappers. Text in Portuguese. Illustrated with several small engravings in the text. The second of a number of almanachs connected with the Witch of Arruda, published from around 1892 until 1909. This issue includes texts on a variety of topics..... More

Paris: Chamuel, 1897. First edition. 8vo, xxiii, 417 pp, wrappers typographically printed in black and red. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Albert Poisson, and photographs of Papus and August Strindberg. With a preface by Papus. Text in French. First edition of this work on tarot and alchemy by the..... More

New York: 1918. First edition. 8vo, 121, iii pp, printed wraps. Association copy, with a note in pencil to title page denoting that this copy belonged to Ralph Ginzburg, and heavily annotated by him throughout in what appears to be his hand. The posthumously published, first separate edition of this..... More

np: nd [c. late 19th century]. 6 x 9" broadside, printed in English with Chinese letters at left margin. Complete with both original sensitive leaves, each printed on thin glassine paper hand-painted with red pigment. Lacking the original envelope. Sensitive leaves were a fortune-telling device by which the temperament of..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1922. 32mo, saddle-stapled in lightwraps printed in black. Gibbs 122b, second noted variation in the LBB(2) binding, with copyright date still present. The transcript of a debate held in 1919 in London by the Rationalist Press Association, which Conan Doyle had once been a member of. McCabe..... More

np: nd. 4to, the three works each mimeographed from typescript and ringbound into commercial black folder with mounted typewritten title to cover, with the exception of the Mathers, which is a typescript. Provenance: from the collection of NASA scientist Ralph Donaldson. A fascinating collection of occult works. The most mysterious..... More

np: Folk-Lore, 937. First separate edition. 8vo, pp. 115-182, printed wraps. Profusely illustated with drawings. An offprint from Folk-Lore, and the first separate edition of this fascinating work addressing labyrinth ritual and threshhold South Indian and Malekulan tattoo designs. This was Layard's second work in the series, following his lecture..... More

Philadelphia: David McKay, [1929]. First American edition. 8vo, 32 pp, bound in purple ribbed and blind-ruled cloth titled in gilt at the spine. In the original pictorial dust jacket, printed in green and black on heavy cream paper. Illustrated with black and white drawings. The first American edition of this..... More

Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo, 76 pp, bound in black cloth with titles stamped in silver foil. In the publisher's dust jacket. Fine in a dust jacket that shows a tiny closed tear at head of front gutter, else fine. More

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1957. First edition. 12mo, viii, 61 pp, bound marbled boards backed in yellow linen with black titles. Title, initial, and printer's device on colophon printed in red. One of 250 numbered copies printed by letterpress at the Dolmen press, the first 50 copies being hand-colored and signed..... More

Mansfield, MO: Zion's Order of the Sons of Levi, 1966. Foolscap, [24] pp. including covers, mimeographed from typescript and photographs and side-stapled into an offset printed, phtoographically illustrated poster. Issue of July August 1966. The newsletter of the religious intentional community, a sect of the Latter Day Saint movement founded..... More