![Item #30186 [Skull & Crossbones] At Pepperell, Mass. Anonymous](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30186.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1654805799)
Pepperell, Massachusettes: 1906. 2 3/4 x 4 9/16" card, printed in white on very heavy black coated card stock on recto only. Invitation to a ghostly happening in Pepperell, Massachusetts, on Friday evening on March 16, 1906. The card advertises music by Thayer's Orchestra, electrical effects beginning at 8 pm..... More
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
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First American edition. 8vo, 177 pp, bound in black cloth with titles stamped in green foil. Illustrated dust jacket. With a foreward by Bruno Bettelheim. Beradt began collecting dreams of her fellow German’s in 1933, after being forbidden to publish by the Nazis, and continued to..... 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
![Item #30432 Psychical Research Vol. 1-2 [Complete in 2 Volumes]. [Ten Cent Pocket Series Nos....](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30432.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670371614)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, each saddle-stapled in blue wraps [2 staples]. Gibbs 445a, for the first volume, in the third noted state of the wrapper - LBB(2). Gibbs 446a for the second volume, in the third noted state of the wrapper. A wide ranging distillation of the British-born occult..... 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
![Item #30221 How to Live 100 Years [People's Pocket Series No. 93]. Lewis Cornaro](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30221.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656709439)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled blue wraps. Gibbs 93a, noted variation 7, in the LBB(a) binding (the earliest binding after the name change to Little Blue Books. An unusual edition of Cornaro's eccentric classic, based upon the English edition of 1809 - which was in turn based..... 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
London: O.T.O., 1937. 4to, v, 137 + [1] pp, + [65] facsimile manuscript sheets laid in at rear, with errata slip tipped in facing p. [138] listing 17 items. With cancel slip to title page changing the date to 1937, with the High Holborn address. Fore edges of text untrimmed..... 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
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1825. First edition. 8vo, x, [ii], 356 pp, lacking the half title. Bound in half red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled spine by Philip Dusel. First edition of this anonymously published collection of Gothic tales written by a gender non-conforming author who was aided by Mary..... More
![Item #28760 Debate on Spiritualism [Little Blue Book No. 122]. Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph McCabe](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28760.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1656616503)
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. 5 x 6 1/2" engraved bookplate on Rives paper. Superb bookplate featuring an engraving based on the Lady of Elche sculpture. Fine. More
![Item #30654 A Guide to Good Metaphysical Books [with] The Introduction to the Kabalah Denudata...](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30654.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679353801)
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
Gloucester, MA: The Fish, 1989. First edition. 4to, xeroxed in black and white and side-stapled. A limited edition of 115 numbered copies. Single issue of this late 1980's Gloucester art zine from the Discordian milieu, which described itself elsewhere as "sort of a Newsletter/Billboard/Soapbox/ Rant Space and/or Creative Outlet for..... 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
Paris: chez l'auteur et Garnier frères, 1847. First edition. 12mo, 305 pp, bound in 19th century marbled paper over boards backed with crushed brown morocco crudely stamped in gilt, with gilt compartments. Illustrated with a single engraved plate. Text in French. Ex Libris G. Sabattini, with his superb and topical..... 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
London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. 8vo, 288 pp, bound in red cloth titled in black. Lacking the rare dust jacket. First edition of this collection of supernatural fiction by the editor, novelist and associate of Rose Macaulay, with whom she hosted an influential salon in London. Her fiction sometimes dealt with..... 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
np: nd [c. late 960's]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only, with some orange hand-coloring. 1.5" area of staining to verso, bleeding through slightly to left margin of recto, else very good. 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