Collection: Occult

San Mateo, CA: Chowchow Imamoto, 1992. 20pp.; bibliography. Octavo; Saddle-stapled in purple wraps. Light creasing to fore-corners of textblock; fading to wraps; very good. A plain-spoken guide to identifying and remediating disharmonious "geopathic areas" in one's immediate environment, with sections on dowsing with a pendulum,... More

London: Rider & Co., 1931. First edition. 159pp; frontispiece. 8vo; green cloth; lacking the jacket. Gilt spine titles dulled; offsetting to endpapers; small dent to fore-edge of front board. About very good. A collection of transmissions through the medium of automatic writing to American born... More

West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, 1979. First edition. 225pp. 8vo. Red boards; gilt spine lettering; dust jacket. Light bumping to base of spine; mild toning to textblock. Very near fine in a fine jacket, unclipped (unpriced), with a touch of crumpling at spine base.... More

NY: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1971. First American edition. Xix, 236pp.; bibliography. 8vo. Gray boards, orange quarter-cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Softened spine ends; bottom corners lightly tapped; penned notes on half-title; neat ink underlining occasionally throughout. Unclipped (“$6.95”) jacket with moderate wear and... More

San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1975. First edition. [9], 39, [16]pp.; illus. Very good, with moderate edge and hinge-wear. Internally clean and bright. A practical guidebook to electrophotography, a technique for making images of the electrical discharges that surround an object or person. With discussion also... More

London: Rider & Company, 1951. 100pp. Small 8vo; gray cloth boards; black spine titles; dust jacket. Minor vertical discoloration to front board; light toning to textblock; bookseller stamp (Samuel Weiser) to base of ffep. Near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped and complete, with... More

London: Regency Press, 1967. First edition (presumed). 136pp. 8vo; green textured-paper boards; dust jacket. Very slight forward cocking; bookseller stamp (Samuel Weiser) to front pastedown. Jacket price-clipped with moderate rubbing, browning to spine panel, small chips out at spine ends. Very good in a very... More

Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1983. First edition. Xv, 224pp.; index; 8 b&w plates at center. Octavo; green textured-paper boards; dust jacket. Textblock light toned (cheap paper); former owner's seal blind-embossed on ffep. Else near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped, with two short closed... More

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1958. First edition. 111pp.; index; 8 b&w plates at center. 8vo; red cloth; dust jacket. Light bumping/softening to board corners; bookseller stamp (Samuel Weiser) to front pastedown. Very good or better in a very good jacket, price-clipped and moderately rubbed,... More

NY/London: Samuel Weiser/The Aquarian Press, 1970. Reprint. 90pp. Octavo; gray textured-paper boards; dust jacket. A few streaks of dark gray soiling to front board, evidently a production flaw; front board corners mildly tapped. Very good or better in a like jacket, price-clipped and moderately rubbed.... More

Grand Rapids, MI: Minit print of Grand Rapids, 1969. 40pp.; illus. Octavo; saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Rubbing and wear to spine and corners. Very good or better. Signed, dated (1969), and inscribed by the author to front cover recto. An account of the author's... More

Portland, ME: Litho Ltd., [circa 1971]. [20]pp.; illus. Octavo; saddle-stapled in printed card wraps. Very good or better, with rubbing along spine. Signed and inscribed to front cover: "Best wishes, Alex." A collection of writings by and about Alexander Tanous (1926-1990), a Maine-born psychic and... More

Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1973. Reprint edition, following the 1972 first published by Bowling Green University Press. 8vo. Gray boards backed with white cloth; lavender spine titles; dust jacket. 192pp. Light bumping to bottom corners and tops of boards. Else near fine in a... More

NY: Mason & Lipscomb Publishers, 1975. First edition. Xii, 226pp. 8vo. Purple cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Minor nibbling and loss to the upper corner of the mildly edge-toned textblock, either the result of insect damage or a production flaw. Light sunning top of... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthy Press, 1966. First edition. 306pp. 8vo. Brown textured paper blindstamped on front board; black and gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Edges of titles a little rubbed, with some transfer onto jacket interior. Minor bump to top front... More

York Harbor, ME: Arcane Publications, 1968. First edition (stated). Xv, 394pp.; bibliography; index. Purple cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. A couple of negligible smudges to textblock edges. Else fine in a near fine jacket, shallowly clipped at all four corners. Foreword by Hans Hofmann.... More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. First edition. Xiv, 218pp.; index. 8vo. Mottled purple and mauve cloth stamped in metallic purple on front board and spine; dust jacket. Bottom corners mildly bruised. Else fine in a very good (+) unclipped (unpriced) jacket with three... More

London: Routledge & Kagan Paul, 1979. First edition. 8vo. Maroon textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. X, 217pp.; index. 8 leaves of plates at center. Would be fine but for inked margin brackets on three or four dozen pages; most pages with just one... More

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1949. First edition (stated first printing). 102pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte peach wraps printed in taupe on front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling to spine and top of front cover,... More

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1949. First edition (stated first printing). 101pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte peach wraps printed in green on front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling tospine, light toning to textblock edges. Signed... More

Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1953. First edition (stated first printing). 112pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in matte amber wraps printed in red orange front cover and spine. Very good or better, with light wear to corners and hinges, dust-dulling to spine, toning to textblock edges. Signed... More

First edition of this uncommon collection of essays on evil, with contributions from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Radu R. Florescu, Carter Lindberg, Ann B. Ulanov, and others. Foreword by J. Robert Nelson. NY: Association Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. 159pp. Red papered... More

Atlanta: Droke House/Hallux, 1973. 176pp. Octavo; black textured-paper boards; dust jacket. Black-and-white photo reproductions throughout. Old price-sticker on ffep, else fine in a very good (+) jacket with a small chip at the base of the rear panel, and toning to rear panel and spine.... More

Scarce first edition of this ostensibly unfictionalized tale of a group of friends who, using a homemade Ouija board, make contact with the spirits of two sisters, one peaceful and the other malign, who had drowned nearly a hundred years before. NY: The Dial Press,... More

An eminently desirable association copy of the limited edition of Sinclair's first novel, a heady, unhinged mash-up of book trade roman à clef and time-bending Jack the Ripper occultism. In addition to the called-for signatures of Sinclair and artist Rigby Graham, this copy has also... More