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

Unique Book, 1968. First Edition. PBO. UB 153 (not in Holroyd). Cover by Eric Stanton. A fine copy.

Dublin: Kerubim Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 362 pp. Limited to 100 hardcover copies (this is No. 17) SIGNED by Nick Farrell on publisher’s bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Illustrated in b&w. 2 tiny corner bumps, otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. Extremely scarce in hardcover. Over the years many myths have built up about one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers. Many of these have been created by those who wish to damn the Golden Dawn and its system of magic or by those who want to naively believe a bogus magical story about the Order and its founders. In King Over the Water, Golden Dawn magician Nick Farrell paints a picture of the founders of the Golden Dawn becoming out of their depth as the Order began to create magicians. Rather than painting Mathers as an eccentric genius, Farrell sees him as an autocratic fantasist. He sees Mathers struggling to keep up as his students rapidly became… 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

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some light wrinkles to spine, corner crease.A very good or better copy. A planet frozen in time, saves nine!

London: Scion Limited , 1950. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some light wrinkles to spine, tiny chips to spine, otherwise a clean copy in very good or better condition. Nebula is an evil alein woman who wants to exterminate mankind.

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Some light wrinkles to spine, very faint corner crease, otherwise a clean copy in very good or better condition. The destruction of a universe and the creation of another one. Whoopee!

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some wrinkles to spine. A very good or better copy. About a spaceship leaving the earth's atmosphere which eventually triggers a fiery holocaust resulting in only a handful of survivors. A real feel good story!

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some light wrinkles to spine, otherwise a very good or better copy. Vulcans destroy the earth so it can rebulid back better! An early World Economic Forum wet dream.

Union City, NJ: Ken Allen Products, No date [1955]. First Edition. Original card covers with interior pages stapled at top. 12 sheets printed on recto only. 2 ghost tape marks to inside front cover. Very light edge wear. Very good. Includes the following routines: Chinatown Finale, Chinatown Flip, Chinatown Surprise, Chinatown Letter, Chinatown In-Out, Chinatown Budda, and Chinatown Monte.

No place: No Publisher, No date [1933]. No edition stated. Stapled card covers. Small format (4.25 x 5.25 inches). 31 pp. Some very light edge wear. Very good. Scarce. Includes 50 new and simple card tricks that anyone can do with any deck of playing cards, without sleight-of-hand or practice.

Fresno: Saber Books, 1963. First Edition. PBO. SA-43 (Holroyd page 502. Cover art by Bill Edwards. A fine copy. A story of a man's escape from the drab routine of married life through a girl whom he possessed completely (his wife's niece), and whose wanton sex appeal turned a southern town into a frenzy.

Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 284pp. Red cloth with white spine titles, in original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full-page color photographs. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. The Goddess Devi, the primordial Shakti, is a revelation of the eternal Brahman in a maternal aspect. She is worshipped during the autumnal festival of Durga Puja in Bengal every year. Photographer Peter Bjørn Franceschi presents a photographic exploration of the mother goddess in the making, which takes the viewer through the winding lanes of Kumartuli, home to the master artists who craft the clay idols of the Devi for the Durga Puja. Accompanying these photographs are verses from Sankaracharya's poetic work Saundaryalahari (Waves of Beauty), translated by the scholar Minati Kar. The work is a paean to Goddess Durga, entwining Advaita Vedanta and Tantra philosophy to paint a splendid picture of Devi, starting from the crown of her head and… Read More

No Place: Transmutation Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Limited Edition of 77 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 63. 86pp. Bound in black cloth spine over purple boards with silver device and titles to front. Spine titled in silver. Illustrated in b&w by Hagen von Tulien. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. Scarce. Frater U.D. is a German occultist, a longtime member of the Fraternitas Saturni, and co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros. From the author: "If this were some ordinary (as in: purely literary) anthology of poems with some fancy but equally conventional illustrations, rest assured we wouldn't bother you with it nor waste your time as well as ours.Only this isn't quite the case here. As you won't need me to tell you, "gnosis" is generally understood to be "revealed salvific knowledge" i.e. nothing that will easily render itself to the limitations of rationalist cognition and raciocination of the prevalent… Read More

Los Angeles: Genii Publishing Co., 1961. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 66 pp. With b&w photos. Very good. Advice on generating publicity for upcoming magicians, plus biographical information on Furst, and more.