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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.

[New York]: Von Zos, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 104pp. This is the special deluxe edition of 40 signed and numbered copies, this being No. 40. Includes a specially developed color sigil which is laid in with its own tissue guard. The book is signed by Edward Gauntlett at the end of the volume. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Color frontispiece. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. The Typhonian Tradition is the purest recension of the ancient magical traditions. There is no physical apostolic succession of adepts down the ages. Rather, the Tradition percolates through the minds of those capable of carrying it: poets, artists and creative occultists. From their works elements of it are projected in novel impressions down the ages. Shades in Mauve takes the form of an historical survey of certain streams that have fed the Typhonian Current from the distant past until comparatively recent times. Beginning with the most ancient headwaters in prehistoric Africa, it notes… Read More

Port Townsend: Feral House, 2008. First Printing. Paperback with French flaps. Quarto. 220pp. Color illustrations throughout. A fine copy. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color, from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs’ Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic ’60s.

Pittsfield, MA: U. F. Grant, No date [1928]. First Edition. Stapled card covers (4.25 x 6.25 inches). Unpaginated [29 pages]. With b&w illustrations. Fine. From Grant's foreword: "I would like to mention that the author is a well known magician, and having a creative brain, he is able to originate magical problems of a practical nature, and the reader may be assured that each effect has been tried and found perfect". The following tricks are presented: Mecca; Hindoo Rope and Rising Card; Grant's Super Rope Trick; Pearls of Persia; Magic Hand and Mystic Rings; Grant's Super Die Box; A Bedtime Story; Sambo the Human Hen; Mah Jong Mystery Sticks; Super Prediction; Vanishing Die And Appearing Girl; Dr. Jeykell And Mr. Hyde.

Colon, MI: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company, No date [1938]. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 14 pp. Inscribed and signed by Greenwood on the title page. Illustrated. Small area of surface loss to front cover (from price sticker). Evidence that this originally may have had a cloth taped spine but it has been removed. Still a very good copy. Smoke 'em if you got 'em! Greenwood (1912-1987) was a professional magician from the Northwest known for his slow motion cigarette and billiard ball manipulation and sleight-of-hand with cards, thimbles, coins and silks.

Devon, UK: The Supreme Magic Co., No date [1963]. No edition stated. Stapled card covers. 36 pp. Illustrated. Some sticker residue to upper right front cover. Very Good. Close-up card magic.

North Hollywood: Nite Time Books, 1964. First Edition. PBO. No. 111 (not in Holroyd). Cover artist's initials: E.M. A fine copy. Very rare. He was a man - but he liked to dress in women's clothing! He tried to resist but it was no use. There was something about the feel of a woman's clothing against his male body that drove him out of his mind with the unbearable ecstasy. And there was that one night when he knew he'd have to go all the way...