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

[France]: Edition Nationale, 1986. No edition stated. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket (Pictorial boards). Large quarto. 180pp. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs in b&w and duo-tone. Bump to lower spine area. A very good copy. Fantastic collection of French erotic postcards.

Xoanon Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 105 pp. Limited to 740 hand-numbered copies. Beautifully bound in natural linen cloth with stamped title and device to front. Color plates and additional illustrations in b&w. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. EIKOSTOS, a Greek word meaning ‘Twentieth’, is a complete historical bibliography of the first two decades of Xoanon Limited. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, it details the history, specifications and arcana of each Xoanon title. The text draws upon previously unpublished images, texts and correspondence to embody the patterning of magical emanation crucial to the manifestation of the XOANON corpus. Also included are notes on critical reviews, rare and privately published magical volumes, ephemera, and forthcoming works by the initiates of the Cultus Sabbati. As a scribe bearing witness to time, EIKOSTOS unfolds the Sabbatic Current as manifest through the bound pages of the enchanted book.

UK: Hell Fire Club Books, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 2 Volumes. Limited to 251 hand-numbered copies in slipcase. The first volume is bound in dark green toad-effect sangrain from a vintage roll of material produced by the Ratchfords Mill in Manchester in the 1950s. Along with the main volume showing Alex Sander's notebook (details below), a second, cloth-bound volume is included with a complete transcript. Both are housed in a cloth slipcase with sangrain edges. The books are both in fine condition in a fine slipcase. The notebook contains material reflecting the hereditary witchcraft traditions of Northern England, the rituals and practices of both Gardnerian Wicca and later Alexandrian Witchcraft, as well as the teachings of Aleister Crowleys sexual magick, the ‘Key of Solomon’ and instructions for ritual and spiritual practices culled from surviving lineages of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In Alex’s hand, the notebook is a remarkable fusion of traditional… Read More

Printed for the Author by Walden Printing Co., No date (1980s). First Edition. Stapled wrappers. 16 pp. Illustrations. Very good. Sands (1920 - 2006) began practicing magic at the age of 17 and was an active member of the New York City magic scene with the guidance of Dr. Abe Hurwitz, the father of Shari Lewis (and Lamb Chop). This volume includes the Sandslide Book Test; Playing Card Toss-Up; Chicken Thief Switch, and others.

Kearny, NJ: Attis Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. x + 110pp. Black cloth with white spine titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated throughout with full-page photos in b&w (some with hints of color). A fine copy in like dust jacket. A fantastic collection of macabre and erotic photographs by Santerieross. At first glance it appears that Joel-Peter Witkin may have been an influence, and that may be the case but the works presented here have a certain type of beauty that Witkin lacks. These photographs are alive. This is a sequel to his previous work, "Fruit of the Secret God".

Three Hands Press, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 476 pp. Limited to 1500 hand-numbered copies. Bound in green cloth with gilt title to front, spine titled and decorated in gilt. With 12 full-page color plates and over 300 illustrations in b&w, by Benjamin A. Vierling. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Being a compendium of trees and herbs from countless spiritual traditions, this exhaustive Herbal of esoteric botany examines in detail the folklore, magical uses and spiritual essences of the vegetal kingdom. While presenting the material through both magical and mythopoetic narrative, the stance of the book is also grounded firmly in supportive disciplines such as botany, chemistry, and anthropology, and also includes up-to-date phylogenetic and pharmacological findings. The text focuses especially upon the Doctrine of Plant Essence, and how those powers are utilized in the active practice of magic and sorcery.Interspersed with encyclopedic plant entries are short narratives… Read More

Chicago: Published by the Author, 1919. No edition stated. Stapled card covers. Small octavo. 42 pp., plus ads. Tipped-in sepia photo of Schulte. Small vignettes in b&w at end of chapters. Fine. Scarce.

No place: Cigam, 1931. No edition stated. Stapled wrappers. 62 pp. With b&w photographs and drawings. Evidence of sticker removal on back cover. Light edge wear. Very good. A collection of tricks by famous magicians of the 1920s and 1930s.

New Delhi: DK Printworld / National Museum Institute, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. xx + 704pp. Cloth bound with spine titled in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w photos. Light edge wear to cloth. Dust jacket has some wrinkling to lower back cover. A near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket. Note: this is a very large and heavy volume and additional shipping charges will be required for overseas orders. . In the multifaceted goddess cult, the goddess takes diverse forms in her role as a destroyer of demonic forces and a donor of boons to her devotees. The goddess is also the divine consort, creator of the universe, source of progeny, prosperity and immortality. In her numerous roles the goddess maintains the equilibrium and sanctity of the universe. In mythology, the Mother Goddess is worshipped as the earth, fish, snake, tree or the forest. This volume is comprised of forty-one well researched and illustrated papers on the Cult of the… Read More

Fethistory, 2019. Second Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 203pp. Illustrated with b&w photos and drawings throughout. A near fine copy. Charles Guyette, the "G-string King," referenced in the film of Wonder Woman's creator, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and costumer to Bettie Page, was the first person to produce and distribute fetish art in America. In 1935, he was arrested and sent to federal prison. But what should've been the end was just the beginning. Although rarely credited by name in his lifetime, he influenced everyone who followed him, particularly the publishers Robert Harrison, John Willie, Irving Klaw, and Leonard Burtman. The aim of this book was to evoke the spirit of Guyette — to collect surviving fragments of a decimated catalog largely by referencing vintage fetish publications from the 1930s through the 1980s and reconstruct a lost history. This portfolio of images is followed by biographical information seen nowhere else, and serves as a… Read More

New York: The Citadel Press, 1958. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. Quarter plum cloth over black boards. Gilt titles and devices to spine. Black and white illustrations of sigils, seals, and figures throughout. Spine is sun faded, some age toning to endpapers, otherwise a near fine copy in a very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket. Black magic and sorcery have been practiced through the ages with the aid of certain writings which were jealously guarded for uncounted centuries. Such works are the 'Black Books' of the Magicians. They contain spells, charms and the methods for making powerful talismans; the rituals of raising spirits through the Magical Circle - the whole gamut of supernatural power and its attaining. This volume includes the entire text of the four books of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus, the Book of the Spirits, the Almadel, the Book of Power, the Clavicle and the Testament (of Solomon), the Grimoire of Honorius the… Read More

Delhi: Nag Prakashan, 2018. Third Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo. xciv + 760pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. A large and heavy volume. Some light wrinkles to cloth (common with many Indian publications), a bit of rubbing to gilt on spine but appears to be an unread copy. Issued without dust jacket. Very good. This is Shastri's translation of the Kalika Purana which was originally issued in three separate volumes. This is the complete text and translation in a massive one-volume edition. The Kalika Purana glorifies the goddess Kamakhya, or Kamakshi, and details the ritual procedures required for worshiping her. It also includes worship of Kali, Durga and other goddesses. The work belongs to the goddess-oriented Shakta branch of Hinduism. Most probably it was composed in or near medieval Kamarupa (modern Assam). Chapters 67 through 78 of the text constitute the Rudhiradhyaya which discusses bali (animal sacrifice) and of Vamacara Tantrism. The Rudhiradhyaya section is… Read More

Amherst, WI: Palmer Publications, 1961. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. 192pp. Small chip to spine. Very good. A collection of short stories by Richard Shaver (with some help by Palmer), some of which appreared in Amazing Srories in the 1940s.

Amherst, WI: Palmer Publications, 1961. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. Cover illustration by Richard Shaver. Light edge wear and creases. Very good. [The Shaver Mysteries]. A collection of short stories by Richard Shaver (with some help by Palmer), some of which appeared in Amazing Stories in the 1940s.

Amherst, WI: Palmer Publications, 1962. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. Front and back cover photographs by Ray Palmer. Light wear to upper spine. Very good. [The Shaver Mysteries]. A collection of short stories by Richard Shaver some of which appeared in Amazing Stories in the 1940s, and more.

Amherst, WI: Palmer Publications, 1962. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. Front and back cover photographs by Ray Palmer. Light wear. Very good. [The Shaver Mysteries]. A collection of short stories by Richard Shaver some of which appeared in Amazing Stories in the 1940s, and more.

Holyoke: Headline Publications, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 128pp. Cover art by Kelly Freas. Near fine. Includes The Aliens Were Haters by Robert Silverberg; Creature From Space by Harlan Ellison; First Man in a Satellite by Charles W. Runyon, and more.

London: MacMillan and Co., 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Stout octavo. 2 Volumes. xl + 724; x + 855 pp. Both volumes in brown buckram with gilt titles and design to spines. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Some light edge wear but both volumes in very good to near fine condition. A massive study of all the pagan races and tribes of the Malay Peninsula with informative details on their belief systems, customs, rituals, languages, and so much more. An ethnographic classic!

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 130pp. Cover art by Edward Valigursky. Light edge wear otherwise near fine. Includes The Night We Died by Henry Slesar; The Vengeance of Galaxy 5 by Harlan Ellison, and more.

New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2009. First Indian Edition. Hardcover in pictorial boards. Thick octavo. xxvii + 701pp. A near fine copy. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic,… Read More