Search Results: Gnosticism & Esoterica from Berthoff Books

William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Good/Good. 189 pages, with index. Book club edition, original copyright 1969. By "an authority on spiritualism ad psychical research." 8vo, red boards with gray lettering on spine, little shelf wear, front end papers frayed along spine, in DJ with small tears at the crown. Bookstore price in pencil on front pastedown, underscoring observed on one page of opening chapter "Human Bloodhound Tracked Jack the Ripper.

Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1990. Soft cover. Good. 189 pages plus x (10) pages front matter including introduction; with bibliography. First American edition stated. Biography of "one of the most complex and fascinating personalities of the esoteric revival" (back cover blurb), a friend and secretary to Aleister Crowley. Small (5-3/8" x 8-1/4") trade paperback, scant exterior wear, very faint foxing to edges. Underscoring and margin brackets/stars on approximately 50 pages.

Samuel Weiser Inc., 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. 254 pages, with index, illustrated with small line drawings and 10 b&w photos. "Including an account of meetings with G.I. Gurdjieff, A.R. Orage and P.D. Ouspensky. Second paperback printing of book published 1969. Trade paperback, slight rubbing to wraps, binding very tight. Name of former owner written on inside front cover, text pages bright and unmarked.

Arrow Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 448 pages. Second Arrow paperback edition of novel first published 1959. Called a "Roger Brook" story after the fictional ero. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, with Wheatley's customary mix of interests: British intelligence, and satanism. Mass-market paperback, wraps shelf-worn with rubbing along spine, remnant of sticker on front cover, edges/page margins age-tanned, foxing to top edge and inside covers. Old price notation on half-title, interior pages unmarked.

Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 541 pages, with editorial and reference notes, chronological survey. Edited and with Foreword by Paul M. Allen, Afterword by The Rev. Peter Roth, OBE; illustrated with 16 b&w photos in two sections of plates, all of them portraits of Steiner. Trade paperback, wraps soiled and with light creasing to front, wear to corners, small (1/4 - 1/2") tears along spine at front of heel and crown, faint foxing to edges. Bookstore stamp on inside front cover, price written on half-title, pages bright, underlining on approximately five pages.

Henry Goulden, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 176 pages, with bibliographies and chronology, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs (cuts). Trade paperback, small creases to corners of wraps, binding tight. Former bookstore prices on inside front cover (sticker) and half-title (written), pages bright and unmarked.

The Octagon Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 256 pages, with index. A survey of secret societies from ancient to modern times, including the Assassins, Knights Templar, Sufi, Mithra cults, Rosicrucians, others. 8vo, red material over boards, in dust jacket, with outer transparent jacket heavy-stapled all the way through the DJ and the boards, edges and page margins age-tanned, bookstore sticker and another sticker affixed to end papers, chipping to end papers along fore-edge. Old prices in pencil on front pastedown, names of most recent former owners written on flyleaf, two kinds of highlighting: margin brackets on approximately 30 pages, yellow highlighting by an earlier owner on approximately 95 pages.

Claymont Communications, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 383 pages. New American edition of autobiography of the British intelligence operative and associate of Gurdjieff, first published 1961. Trade paperback, minor edgewear, edges have splotchy brown stains as from liquid (but pages not wavy). Name of former owner written on inside front cover, old price in pencil on half-title, interior pages unmarked.