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New York: The Dial Press, 1957. No edition stated. Hardcover. 8vo. First half of book in English, second half in French (on different colored paper). 157pp. Black and white illustrations including 57 calligraphic devices by Dali. Rubbing and edgewear to boards. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has darkened spine, rear of jacket is rubbed and shows some scrapes and surface loss. Still a very good copy in like jacket. Nothing has ever aged more rapidly and more poorly than modern art." Dali holds nothing back here as he tells the reader what is wrong with modern art, its artists, and its critics. Nobody escapes. "The critics have been cuckolded by the ugly, the modern, the technical and the abstract." Dali shares critical evaluations of Picasso, Cezanne, Turner, Pollock and others. On Jackson Pollack's work: "The indigestion that goes with fish soup." Quite the entertaining read.

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.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2013. Hardcover with dust jacket, in pictorial slipcase. Folio (10.6 x 15.8 inches). 544pp. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Tiny corner bump to book otherwise book, DJ and slipcase in near fine condition. This book celebrates more than 500 years of the stunning visual culture of the world’s greatest magicians. Featuring more than 850 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings as well as paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Caravaggio among others, The Big Book of Magic traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s. Combining sensational images with incisive text, the book explores the evolution of the magician’s craft, from medieval street performers to the brilliant stage magicians who gave rise to cinematic special effects; from the 19th century’s Golden Age of Magic to groundbreaking daredevils like Houdini and the early 20th century’s vaudevillians.

Kolkatta: Punthi Pustak, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 300pp. With b&w photographs. Plain white cloth with dust jacket. DJ flaps are lightly affixed to inner boards as is often the case with Indian publications. Otherwise a very good copy in like dust jacket. This is the first complete translation in English of the Kamakhya Tantra, a tantra detailing the worship of the goddess Kamakhya. Appendices include additional instructions for worship from the Kalika Purana and the Yogini Tantra. In addition to the translation, there are chapters concerning the Ten Mahavidyas, the history of Kamakhya temple and surrounding areas, and other bits of information concerning Kamakhya. A long awaited and much needed English translation of this important tantra.

Kolkata (Calcutta): Punthi Pustak, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv + 348pp. Simple cardboard binding with dust jacket. Black and white photographs at end of volume. The dust jacket flaps have been affixed to the inside of the cardboard. PLEASE NOTE: this is a horribly bound book! It is a good copy only. Buy it strictly for the information within, which is quite informative and available nowhere else. An exhaustive and exclusive study on the Taravidya. It contains the original texts of Taratantra and deals with the Tara-cult including the form of Tara, mantras of Tara, Taradhyanas, Tarakavacam, Taradiksa and detailed methods of Tara -worship. This book is enriched with the origin myth of the Dasamahavidyas, origin of Kali, Bhuvanesvari, Chinna-masta, Dhumavati, Vagalamukhl, Matangi and Kamala; Their forms and mantras, Vasistha's penance, history of Tarapitha, Taratemple, Mahasmasana and Jivitakunda; short life history of Acarya Brahmananda Giri, Sadhaka Bamakhyapa (Vamakhyapa) and Sri… Read More

Chicago: Scorpion Books, 1964. First Edition. PBO. 101 (Holroyd page 504). Cover art by Albert Neutzel under the name of Gus Albet. A fine copy. Lesbian sleaze. "The shocking story of what happens when a woman discovers there is more than one kind of lover."

Wee Hours, 1967. First Edition. Wee Hours 543 (Holroyd page 534). Cover by Bill Alexander. Fine. Scarce.

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.

No place: Published by the Author, No date (ca. 1920s). No edition stated. Stapled wrappers (5 x 7 inches). 25 pp. Light edge wear. Very good to near fine.

New York: The Vixen Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 184pp. Blue cloth with back spine titles. Small chip, edge wear, light rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket. A very good copy in like dust jacket. Sleaze novel. "The moon was a devil - a round yellow she-devil - sending her leaping beams down to kiss a bit of madness into each life she touched. Shedding her golden glow upon the wave-lapped beach, inciting sibilant sighs and sounds of soft violence ..." (from the DJ flap).

San Diego: Candid Reader, 1969. First Edition. PBO. CA980 (Holroyd page 197). Fantastic cover art by Robert Bonfils. Light creasing to spine. Near fine. Scarce. It began, for Bob, with a dogfight in the sky, and ended up with carnal combat in the bushes with three round-heeled beauties. He found that a friendly chick can be more dangerous than an airborne enemy, but he stuck it out, all for the love of Butterfly." If lusty Lepidoptera is your thing, then this one's for you!

London: John Spencer, No date. First Edition. Digest size. Cover art by Facey. Wrinkles to spine, small chip to lower spine, otherwise a very good copy. Contains 6 short stories including "Space Pirates" by Hamilton Donne; "The Outlaw of Space" by Lawrence Smith; "The Visitors" (uncredited); 'Lunar Revolt" by Frank C. Kneller; "Plan for Conquest" by D.J. Mencer; and "The Planeteer" by Martin L. Baker.

Detroit: Johnson, Smith & Co., No date (ca. 1910). No edition stated. Original pictorial wrappers. Small octavo (5.25 x 7 inches). 100 pp., plus many pages of ads. With 89 b&w illustrations. Corner crease and faint vertical crease to front cover, staining to front cover which shows on inner cover and lighty on first few pages. Otherwise a solid, very good copy of this scarce volume. Includes "The Miser's Dream" and many other tricks.

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1902. First Edition. Original pictorial wrappers. 12mo (4.25 x 6.5 inches). 164 pp., plus 26 pages of publisher's ads. with 86 illustrations in b&w. Book has been bumped or dropped resulting in a bend that affects the entire volume. Still completely readable. Outer cover is starting to separate from text pages. A good to very good copy of this scarce volume. Includes a complete explanation of Downs' world-famous coin creation, "The Miser's Dream," as presented by him at the Palace Theatre. London, for nearly 200 consecutive performances.

[UK]: Darengo Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Large format softcover. Oxfordshire Communications in Egyptology III. 135 pp. Black and white illustrations. A fine, unread copy. This important work considers the Egyptian god Anubis as guardian of the ‘Shaman’s Gate’ which bridges this world and the next. The author quotes liberally from Egyptian sources, some of which have not previously been translated. Anubis, the jackal god who presides over the embalming process, judge and guide of souls, has a critical function in the processes of death, rebirth, and reintegration. Comparaitive material from other mythologies is cited to illustrate the universality of the archetypes of the dog/wolf and the ‘strait gate’ between earth and heaven. This book also includes a text, with translation and commentary, of the invocation to Anubis, Osiris, and other chthonic deiies (PGM XXIII; pOxy 412). This hymn from the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri is a fine poem and an excellent example of the… Read More