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Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 2002. Revised Enlarged Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Maroon cloth with yellow lettering to front and spine. 363 pages, plus 14 black and white plates at end of volume. Light rubbing to cloth. A few tiny pinholes to upper front of jacket and onto cloth of front board. Still a very good copy in like dust jacket. A very thorough overview of Tantra. Chapters include: The Origin of Tantra; The Goddess of Tantra; The Mother Cult; Consciousness in Tantra; Occultism in Tantra; Spirituality in Tantra; Kundalini; Sadhana; Worship; Significance of Tantra; Yoga in Tantra; The Philosophy of Tantric Sadhana; Mysticism in Tantra; Buddhist Tantra; Tantric Literature; Tantric Pilgrimage; Index.

Kolkata: Punthi Pustak, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii + 223pp. Bound in black cloth with white titles to front and spine. Usual Indian production values. Title misspelled on front cover (Trantric), corners bumped, small bump to lower edge of front board. Still a very good copy in like dust jacket. Includes a history of tantra in relation to Assam, plus a deliberation on the details of the Yogini Tantra (which has still never been published in English), a detailed analysis of the Kamakhya Tantra, comments concerning the Kalikapurana, and more.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2017. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo.This is volume 22 in the Buddhist Tradition Series (edited by Alex Wayman). xiv + 162pp. In pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket). Black and white plates, bibliography, index. A very good copy. A scholarly monograph on the Tantric Goddess Chinnamasta, whose iconography often depict her as severing her own head, with two attendants drinking the streams of blood from her neck. She has Buddhist origins but is probably more known as one of the Dasamahavidya (the ten tantric manifestations of the Goddess Kali) from the Hindu tantric pantheon. The work discusses her origins, her ritual procedures, visualizations, and more. Appendices detail the one thousand names of the Goddess plus locations of her temples in Northern India and the Kathmandu Valley.

Livorno, Italy: Media Print Editore, 2019. First Edition. Softcover (not issued in hardcover). Small octavo. viii + 292pp + ii (ads). Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 141. Stiff white wrappers with titles printed in red on front and spine. The tiniest bit of corner wear, otherwise a near fine copy. This new volume comes from the author's collaboration with Roberto Migliussi of Italy. It consists of the first year lessons from Bertiaux's order: Monastery of the Seven Rays. Michael Bertiaux is the author of many occult works including the "Vodoun Gnostic Workbook", "Vudu Cartography" , "Cosmic Meditation", and "Ontological Graffiti.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Listed as Volume One: Texts (there was never a volume two). lviii + 353pp. With black and white figures and line drawings. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. The Greek magical papyri" is the name given by scholars to a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt. Dating from the second century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., these fascinating papyri have survived not only the forces of nature but the systematic efforts of ancient official cults to destroy such documents. They provide a rare glimpse into the vast religious “underworld” of late classical and early Christian times. This new translation has been brought up to date and is now the most comprehensive collection of this literature, and the first ever in English. It is an invaluable resource for scholars in a wide variety of fields, from the history of religions to the classical languages and… Read More

Oakland: Magic Limited, Lloyd E. Jones, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (8.5 x 10.75 inches). Signed by Frank Blaiseell on the title page. 86 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Near fine. Scarce. A series of tricks and experiments utilizing magic squares and a deck of cards, and more.

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

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 130pp. Cover art by Edward Valigursky. Near fine. Includes Spawn of the Dark One by Robert Bloch; The Invisible Man Murder Case by Henry Slesar, and other short fiction pieces. Also includes The Riddle of Levitation by Frank Russell (non-fiction).

Milwaukee: Nightstand Book, 1962. First Edition. PBO. 1599 (Holroyd page 385). Cover art by Harold W. McCauley. Tiniest bit of wear to top of spine otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. Frigid wife ... her passion locked within her, dark and unwanted. Her mind a turmoil of unnatural wants and strange desires." A joint effort by Block and Westlake.

New York: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. xxiv + 496 pages. Some light indentations to bevelled board edges, wear to crown of spine, otherwise a very good to near fine copy. Quite scarce in the first edition. A curious and fascinating treatise on the use of feces, urine, and other bodily excretions in ritual and myths from throughout history. There's really no other book like this - how could there be? Included are such exotic chapters as "The Urine Dance of the Zunis," "The employment of Excrement in Food by Savage Tribes," "Posture in Latrines," “The Bacchic Orgies of the Greeks,”, “The Ordure of The Grand Lama of Thibet”, “The Mushroom in Connection to the Fairies”, “Poisonous Mushrooms Used in Ur-Orgies”, “Tolls of Flatulence Exacted of Prostitutes of France”, “Phallic Superstitions in… Read More

Philadelphia: Kanter's Magic Shop, 1946. Second Edition. Stapled wrappers. 44 pp., plus ads. Full thumb print (?) to bottom of title page. Slight corner curl to upper right front. Two former owner's names in ink. Very Good. Lu Brent (1903 - 1993) was a semi-professional magician starting in 1927. He specialized in small magic. Numerous tricks involving cigarettes and more.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1969. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 304pp. Red cloth with white and black titles to front and spine. Very light edge and corner wear, faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket André Breton outlines the goals, significance, and political stance of the Surrealist movement.

London: Maggs Bros., 1954. First Edition. Original wrappers. Octavo. 203 pages, plus 8 plates at end of volume. A few additional b&w illustrations. Some foxing to spine, light edge wear. A very good copy of this desirable catalogue. This catalogue lists 129 works on magic and witchcraft with the rest devoted to early medicine and science. Some rare volumes listed here.

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., No date. First Edition. Color wrappers. Tall octavo. 80 pp. Illustrated in b&w. A near fine copy. 166 items with detailed descriptions. Aldine, Estienne, Ibarra and Bodoni presses, illustrated books, fine bindings, French, German, Italian and Spanish Literature, Greek and Latin Classics.

Wee Hours, 1968. First Edition. PBO. WH 565 (Holroyd page 535). Cover by Eric Stanton. Fine. Sleaze novel with S&M and bondage scenes.

No publishing information provided. Stapled yellow card covers. Unpaginated [20 pp]. Illustrated in b&w. Very Good. An excellent system on how to spot marked decks of cards, with examples on the major and popular decks in use.

London: Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo. This is the first edition, in the second state binding (first state binding had full gilt image to front panel). Bound in green cloth with blind-stamped image to front panel. 546pp. 240 black and white illustrations. Short tear to cloth at upper spine. Light corner wear, otherwise a near fine copy. This is Budge’s classic work on the religion of the predynastic portion of Egyptian history as well as the cults, theological systems and religions of the dynastic period. The book is in two parts. Part one contains the principal facts about the religious beliefs and thoughts of the Egyptians, and their conception of God and the ‘gods’, their enneads and triads, the religions and systems of the great cities, etc. Magic, the cult of animals, the cult of Osiris, and the Tuat, or Other World, are treated at some length. Part two of this work is devoted to a series of revised English translations of a… Read More