Search Results: Authors starting with C from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

Oakland: Magic Limited - Lloyd E. Jones, 1958. No edition stated. Stapled card covers. 13 pp., plus 11 pages of ads. Near fine. An excellent card trick using a prepared deck. Harry Canar (1876-1950) was a leader among the magical fraternity in the 1920's and active in the affairs of the Pacific Coast Society of Magicians.

London: Quaker Oats Limited, 1935. First Edition. Color pictorial card covers. 12mo (4.5 x 6.75 inches). 64 pp. Illustrated in b&w. A tight copy in very good or better condition. A promotional book on magic for younger folks, published by Quaker Oats. Includes a number of tricks with instructions. Most pages have a short sentence at the bottom of the page encouraging the consumption of Quaker Oats.

Fresno: Vega Books, 1961. First Edition. PBO. V-13 (Holroyd, page 531). A fine copy. Rene's telegram had stated simply that Rafe Brocken was dead - for Sam to come to Santa Cruz Island. When he got there she told him more: that his brother had been murdered, his throat cut with a straight razor, and that he'd been involved with some Mexican girl who lived on the island. This last bit Sam couldn't understand; Rafe had always lived with boisterous discretion. He had been loyal and true to Rene. Something was off-key here. Something was missing. Sam had yet to find out about the Satanist cult on the island ...

At New Cythera, no date [1925]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (10 x 13 inches). Text in French. 80 pp. In a beautiful full morocco binding (signed Max Fonseque) with 5 raised bands and gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and preliminary pages. Printed on cream vellum with the "Lafuma paper mills" watermark. 20 full page erotic plates engraved by Coiny after Carrache. A near fine copy. Quite uncommon. A superb facsimile of the extremely rare Didot edition of 1798, featuring 20 highly explicit plates showing the erotic play of Graeco-Roman deities and mythological figures (Mars and Venus, Jupiter and Juno, and many more). Includes four superb satyr and faun engravings. 20 plates in all in fantastic detail. A right tour de force, as they say!

Belle Mead, NJ: Mario Carrandi, Jr., 1993-1998. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 12 separate catalogues, each around 70 pages in length. Illustrated in b&w. All catalogues have a mailing label and all in very good to near fine condition. A collection of catalogues from this esteemed firm specializing in magic books and collectibles. Hundreds of items are listed. Each issue with illustrations in b&w. Catalogue numbers are as follows: 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47. A handy set of reference works.

Wee Hours, 1967. First Edition. Wee Hours 554 (Holroyd page 535). Cover by Gene Bilbrew. Fine. Scarce.

Corinth , 1966. First Edition Thus. Terror Takles Book No. 2. CR147 (Holroyd page 211). Cover art by Robert Bonfils. Near fine. Title story by Hugh B. Cave.

Los Angeles: F. G. Thayer, no date (ca 1915). Second Edition. Stapled wrappers. 12mo (5 x 7 inches). Unpaginated [16 pp]. Illustrated in b&w. Light edge wear to oversized covers. Small letter "G" written at lower left front. Near fine.

Los Angeles: F. G. Thayer, no date (ca 1915). Stapled wrappers. 12mo (4.75 x 7 inches). 16 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Small area of surface loss to upper front of first page, light edge wear to oversized covers. Otherwise near fine. Selection of vintage magic tricks.

Kansas City: A. M. Wilson, M. D. , 1916. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Small octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Light edge wear. Small area of surface loss to lower back cover (probably from removing a price sticker), small letter "G" written at lower left of front cover. Very good.

Los Angeles: F. G. Thayer, 1919. No edition stated. Stapled wrappers. 12mo (5 x 7 inches). Unpaginated (20 pp). Illustrated in b&w. Some light wear to edges of oversized covers, small letter "G" written at lower left front, otherwise near fine.

New York: D. Robbins & Company, 1948. Stapled card covers. 24 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very Good. It is exactly as the title suggests.

[New York]: Tannen Publications, 1952. First Editions (stated on title page). Stapled card covers. 11 pp.Illustrated in b&w. Very Good. A complete, routined mindreading act.

Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition. Standard hardcover edition limited to 726 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 45. Bound in dark grey cloth with textured black end papers. 152 pages. With black and white illustrations by the author. A fine copy in a fine, letterpress dust jacket. The Opuscula Magica series is scheduled for four volumes (two have been published). The series presents short exegetical works on magic by the British occult author Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004) including his magical essays, homilies, and other obscure works which originally appeared in small-circulation occult journals now out of print. Volume One contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron Magazine. The essays reflect a degree of magical insight, clarity of vision, and creativity seldom equaled in… Read More

Hercules, CA: Xoanon Limited, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 86pp. Limited to 727 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 500. Dark grey cloth with silver device to front, spine titled in silver. Color frontispiece plus 8 full page color plates and one additional color illustration, all by Chumbley. A bit of light rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Begun in 1993, Khiazmos was initially conceived as a poetic contemplation reflecting upon the arcana of magic polarities and paradoxes, and upon the emerging witchcraft philosophy of Crooked Path Sorcery that came to encompass and remains at the heart of the work of the Cultus Sabbati as a whole. Chumbley refined these over the years and its final selections were completed in 1999. The work consists of a series of aphorisms which embody a grimoire of magical philosophy concentrating on two major currents within the Sabbatic Tradition. The first is the Doctrine of the I-Congressive (Self in magical congress with… Read More

Tuscaloosa: Silk King Studios, 1942. Pictorial wrappers. 16 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Book has been folded resulting in a vertical crease throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. Features the classic rope trick by Keith Clark using a piece of soft rope and a pair of scissors. Clark was better known for his cigarette manipulations.

New York: Paragon Book House, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Royal octavo. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1937. This is the first single volume edition (complete and unabridged). xxiv + 314pp. Navy cloth with orange titles stamped to front and spine. In original dust jacket. With 360 b&w images. Some light edge wear to dust jacket. A tiny bit of dust to bottom page edges, othwerwise a fine copy in a near fine jacket. Two of the most important sourceworks of Lamaistic esotericism. Each pantheon, or collection of Icons, is presented in photo-reproduction from the priceless originals, with descriptive indexes in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. An amazing collection of Buddhist imagery.

After Hours, 1965. First Edition. PBO. AH 125 (Holroyd page 60). Cover by Eric Stanton. Tiny tear to upper spine. Near fine.

Self published, 1989. No edition stated. Stapled wrappers. 10 pp. Illustrations. This booklet may have come with an electronic device which is referred to in the text (a beeper). If so, it is not present here. Very good. An updated version of the Talking Skull, The Spirit Bell, and Laser Beam, all rolled into one. The tricks and gags presented here involve a "beeper" which makes sounds during tricks, some used with a watch.

Portland: Wrigley-Cross Books, 1995. First Edition. Introductions by Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe and David Langford. Paperback. Octavo. 163pp. Signed on the title page by Lionel Fanthorpe. Near fine. A bibliography of all the Fanthorpe titles published by John Spencer under the Badger imprint, plus many humorous excerpts from the books which often were padded and ended abruptly to meet strict work counts. Included is one complete story "Curse of the Khan".Fanthorpe began working for Badger Books in the early 1950s, and over the period of the next 15 years produced many books under different pseudonyms, some of which were pen-names shared with other of Badger Books' writers. These included: Victor La Salle, John E. Muller, and Karl Zeigfreid. Pseudonyms exclusive to Fanthorpe's short story output include Neil Balfort, Othello Baron, Noel Bertram, Oben Leterth, Elton T. Neef, Peter O'Flinn, René Rolant, Robin Tate and Deutero Spartacus. Names he used for novels… Read More