Search Results: Occult & Esoterica from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

UK: Hell Fire Club Books, no date (2018). Privately Printed. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Limited to 156 copies bound in quarter scarlet pigskin. Seven-fold Star of Babalon blind-stamped to front. Mark of the Beast stamped in gold to the center, with Aleister Crowley's facsimile signature in gilt to lower front, gilt titling to spine. Includes folding card with publication details and limitation number. Illustrated with b/w figures and emblems. A lovely book production. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. This invaluable work gathers together all the available information pertaining to the sex magic practices and rituals of the O.T.O. from various authors and practitioners including Crowley, Theodor Reuss, Frater Achad, Gerald Yorke, Marcelo Motta, and many others. Includes the full texts of Crowley's Amrita, De Arte Magica, and others as well as numerous Secret Papers of the O.T.O. Additional information is gleaned from essays, letters, and more. CONTENTS: Introduction; Hymn to Pan with… Read More

Richmond Vista, CA: Xoanon Publishing, 2007. First Printing. Single sheet, printed on one side, 8.5 x 11 inches. "Xoanon Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the formation of Three Hands Press, a sister publishing house treating contemporary and historical Metaphysical, Folkloric, and Occult Subjects." A fine copy. The sheet invites subscribers to submit name and contact information as a charter subscriber to "this new publishing endeavour". Authors slated for publication at the time of this announcement are: Andrew D. Chumbley, Michael Howard, Dale Pendell, and Daniel A. Schulke.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xi + 476 pp. Blue cloth with silver spine titles. Illustrated with color plates and b&w photographs. Small bump to lower spine. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce. Beads, bones, rags, straw, leather, pottery, fur, feathers and blood—these are the raw materials of vodun artworks. The power of these images lies not only in their aesthetic, and counter-aesthetic, appeal but also in their psychological and emotional effect. As objects of fury and force, these works are intended to protect and empower people and cultures that have long been oppressed.In this first major study of its kind, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the artworks of the contemporary vodun cultures of southern Benin and Togo in West Africa as well as the related voudou traditions of Haiti, New Orleans, and historic Salem, Massachusetts. Blier employs a variety of theoretically sophisticated psychological, anthropological, and… Read More

UK: Hell Fire Club Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 2 Volumes. Limited to 251 hand-numbered copies in slipcase. The first volume is bound in dark green toad-effect sangrain from a vintage roll of material produced by the Ratchfords Mill in Manchester in the 1950s. Along with the main volume showing Alex Sander's notebook (details below), a second, cloth-bound volume is included with a complete transcript. Both are housed in a cloth slipcase with sangrain edges. The books are both in fine condition in a fine slipcase. The notebook contains material reflecting the hereditary witchcraft traditions of Northern England, the rituals and practices of both Gardnerian Wicca and later Alexandrian Witchcraft, as well as the teachings of Aleister Crowleys sexual magick, the ‘Key of Solomon’ and instructions for ritual and spiritual practices culled from surviving lineages of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In Alex’s hand, the notebook is a remarkable fusion of traditional… Read More

Warminster (UK): Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1977-1978. Vol. I is stated as a reprint (1978), no indication of reprint for II (1977) and III (1978). Hardcover. Octavo. 3 Volumes: Vol I: Spells 1-354, Vol II: Spells 355-787, Vol III: Spells 788-1185 & Index. All volumes in blue cloth with original dust jackets. Volume I jacket is price-clipped. Former owner's bookplate to free endpaper of each volume. Otherwise all volumes fine in near fine dust jackets. The Egyptian Book of the Dead has long been familiar to people interested in ancient Egyptian religion, but its earlier and equally extensive counterpart, the collection known as the Coffin Texts, are lesser known. The Coffin Texts date primarily from the early part of the second millennium BC, and were intended to provide a deceased person, buried in the coffin on which a version of the texts was written, with the magical spells and speeches which would enable him to achieve a secure and important place in the next world. Faulkner provides an… Read More

Chicago: Iceberg Projects, 2022. First Edition. Single sheet folded once to make a 4 page booklet. Loose single-sided sheet laid-in. A fine copy. This brochure was created for the premier US exhibition of Austin Spare's drawings which make up the recently published book by Fulgur Press: Psychopathia Sexualis: Drawings from the Kinsey Institute. The brochure was only available during the exhibition which ran from March 19th to May 22nd, 2022. 

Firense: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. Sewn wrappers. Octavo. text in Italian. xxi + 225 pp. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Scarce. Mostly unopened along the top edge. A near fine, unread copy. Superb bibliography of works on Magic and related subjects including Alchemy. Over 1200 works are described, most of which are in Italian or Latin. An excellent reference work.

[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 314 pp. Deluxe Edition: Limited to only 33 signed and siglized copies. Book is contained in a solander box in marbled quarter Moroccan presentation and foil blocking, swathed in black goat leather. The book itself is bound in full black leather highly decorated in two foil block colours, marbled endpapers, book ribbon, head and tail bands, foil blocking on the inside casement front and back, and each book copy with its own unique piece of sigillic artwork by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles. Each piece of artwork will bind an aspect of the volume into that specific copy. The book is signed and sigilized by Peter Hamilton-Giles. A fine copy in a fine solander box. This work examines the role of the Black Dragon’s sinistral horn as a physical and yet liminal position between physical and metaphysical realities. Building on the work of Volume 1 and Codex Althaeban Malik, Volume 2 underscores the development of telluric sorcery… Read More

No place: Atramentous Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 130pp. Limited to 333 copies. Bound in terracotta cloth with blue insignias to front and back panels. Spine titled in blue. Heritage blue endpapers. Illustrated in color and b/w. A near fine copy, issued without dust jacket. This grimoiric work by David Herrerias is based on Andrew Chumbley’s Dragon Book of Essex, Qutub and Azoetia, as well as Austin Osman Spare's Zoetic Grimoire of Zos and The Book of Pleasure. Combining his Mexican cultural background with western occultism, The Book of Q’ab iTz presents an opportunity to engage with a pantheon of tricksters, familiars, Gods and Goddesses through the dream state. And while it acknowledges the influence of others, it is not a simple reflection of the past, but rather marks the evolution of the mysteries based on individual endeavour. The work is visually stunning.

[UK]: Atramentous Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover in solander box. Quarto. Deluxe Edition of 37 hand-numbered copies only, though the number of this copy is hand-written as #18 of 34 copies. The book is signed by Peter Hamilton-Giles. Book is bound in full black goat with elaborate red and gold foil blocking to front and rear, spine with raised bands with a uniform gilt design in each panel. All edges gilt, red and black head and tail bands, black book ribbon. The solander box is bound in quarter black goat meeting nonpareil marbled paper with vertical gilt decorations along edges of leather. Spine of box has seven raised bands with title and gilt devices to panels. Edges and inside of box are in black velvet with a blind embossed insignia inside on the left hand side. Also included are a sigillic piece of artwork (by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles) which has been drawn from one of the points mentioned in the book. Printed on 120 gsm Munken Rough. 415 pages. Full page illustrations by Carolyn… Read More

London: Maggs Bros., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Originally issued in pictorial wrappers, this copy has been rebound in quarter red goat over maroon boards (original wrappers bound in). 220 pp. plus indexes. Illustrated with full page plates, mostly in b&w, some foldout. A beautiful, near fine copy. Contains 442 total items with detailed descriptions. One of the most unusual catalogues I have encountered. Includes some extremely rare works from the 15th through 20th centuries. Several occult works and many other oddities. With an 8 page introductory essay about the catalogue. Most of the books listed are now practically unobtainable.

London: Fulgur Limited, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Landscape quarto. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, this being no. 203. Black cloth with small blind-stamped image to front panel, silver spine titles. 96pp, color and b&w illustrations. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. An excellent introduction to the work of Austin Spare. The book was published to accompany an exhibition of Spare's work at the Maas Gallery in London and it contains a comprehensive collection of his art, a biographical introduction, a checklist of his exhibitions and essays by those who knew Spare personally. Contributors include Kenneth and Steffi Grant, Clifford Bax, Hannen Swaffer, Philip Paul, John Smith, Haydn Mackay, Ralph Straus and Grace Rogers.

Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxi + 178pp. Bound in pictorial boards with matching dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w and color plates at end of volume. A very good copy in like dust jacket. Camunda, the Divine Mother, is one of the manifestations of Shakti. She is considered to be the most feroscious goddess of the Hindu pantheon and her cult is of considerable antiquity. The Mahabharata, the Puranas and other literary texts have provided vivid accounts of her origin. The author presents a rich and variegated picture of the Camunda art of Orissa, highlighting the iconography of individual images with special reference to the Silpa and Tantric texts.

London: Jerusalem Press, 2015. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in quarter purple leather over white cloth boards. Silver spine titles. Marbled endpapers. Page marker ribbon. Litho printed. Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 51. Book is signed by the author and laid in is an original signed ink drawing by the author, and a facsimile invitational card to a Spare exhibition from 1909. 250 pages. An errata slip is also present. Includes two plates sections in color, plus over 100 illustrations in black and white. A fine copy in like dust jacket, in a fine cloth-covered slipcase with large silver design to front panel. A fantastic production. Comprising a revised and much expanded republication of the long out of print books ‘The Early Work…’ and ‘The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare’, this volume features 93 color images and includes 50 unpublished artworks by Spare. In addition, it features 20 very early ink drawings from a recently discovered… Read More

Munich: Theion Publishing, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 207pp. Auric Edition hand-bound in full "Kosmic Blue" leather (looks black) complemented by a consecrated silver talismanic pendant in the shape of a three-legged spinning, rotating sun wheel spraying telesmatic light, to front panel, enclosed within a blind-stamped border. Same border design to back panel. Limited to 80 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 50. With b&w photographs. A near fine copy. This groundbreaking release is the first authoritative work on Ludwig Klages and his pagan metaphysics ever to be published in English. Without a doubt Klages is one of the most intriguing and enigmatic pagan thinkers of the early 20th Century. A figure of great controversy he radically rejected Christianity and Monotheism in favor of a pan-daemonic paganism. Advocating the return to primordial states of consciousness through magico-erotic encounters with the living powers of the ensouled cosmos, Klages was a driving… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 475 pp. Black cloth with copper spine titles. A few b&w images. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce. This is the first comprehensive collection of Dali's shorter writings to appear in English. The volume includes almost all of his writings published in the 1920s and 1930s, most of which appear here for the first time in an English translation. It also offers a substantial selection of Dali's short pieces from the 1940s and later, including excerpts from some of his book-length publications. the texts are accompanied by extensive commentaries and annotations that serve to illuminate the rich intellectual background and the broad range of references brought by Dali to his writings.

New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors, 2024. Softcovers. Octavo. 10 volumes. Titles listed below. All volumes in fine condition. Technically, this is not a complete set of Woodroffe's books but it does include all of his major works. The titles included are as follows: Mahanirvana Tantra: The Great Liberation; Principles of Tantra (Volumes 1 and 2 in one book); The Garland of Letters; Sakti and Sakta; Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali; The Serpent Power; The World as Power; Isha Upanishad, Bharata Shakti and The Seed of Race; Introduction to Tantra Sastra; Is India Civilized? (Essays on Indian Culture).

Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Folio (10 c 13.5 inches). 77 pp. Limited to 1520 copies, this being No. 278. Signed by the publisher B.H. Newdigate and by the illustrator Zhenya Gay. Bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards, spine titled in gilt. Includes 12 stunning lithographs by Zhenya Gay. the book is in near fine condition. The slipcase is in very good condition with some light rubbing and some edge wear, mainly at spine tips. This is De Quincey’s classic autobiographical account about his addiction to laudanum (opium and alcohol) and the effect it had on his life. The Confessions was the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight. The book was originally published anonymously in September and October of 1821 in the London Magazine. It was first released in book form in 1822 and again in a revised edition in 1856.

New Delhi: DK Printworld / National Museum Institute, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. xx + 704pp. Cloth bound with spine titled in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w photos. Light edge wear to cloth. Dust jacket has some wrinkling to lower back cover. A near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket. Note: this is a very large and heavy volume and additional shipping charges will be required for overseas orders. . In the multifaceted goddess cult, the goddess takes diverse forms in her role as a destroyer of demonic forces and a donor of boons to her devotees. The goddess is also the divine consort, creator of the universe, source of progeny, prosperity and immortality. In her numerous roles the goddess maintains the equilibrium and sanctity of the universe. In mythology, the Mother Goddess is worshipped as the earth, fish, snake, tree or the forest. This volume is comprised of forty-one well researched and illustrated papers on the Cult of the… Read More

Scarlet Imprint, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 146 pp. Limited to 465 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 439. Bound in white shimmering cloth with silver stamping to front and silver titles to spine. A near fine copy. A nice collection comprising the work of 26 leading poets from the occult and pagan communities, and six essays on the agony and ecstasy of the creative process. Contributors include: Ruby Sara (editor), Penelope Shuttle, Peter Redgrove, Caroline Carver, Paul Newman, John Harness, Christopher Greenchild, Paul Holman, T.Thorn Coyle, Mr VI, Geo Athena Trevarthen, -Ariel, Veronica Cummer, Erynn Rowan Laurie, Sara Amis, Chris Page, Michael Routery, D.B Myrrha, Elizabeth Vongvisith, Anna Elizabeth Applegate, David Trevarthen, Pamela Smith-Rawnsley, P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, Rebecca Buchanan, Patricia Cram, and Mark Saucier.