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

New York: Award Books, 1967. First Edition. PBO. Mass market paperback. A269S (not in Holroyd). Corner curl to back cover, edge wear. Very good. A new look at the astonishing power of this strange and ancient craft - embracing love potions, magic charms, orgiastic rituals and primitive voodoo rites.

London: Jerusalem Press, 2015. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in quarter purple leather over white cloth boards. Silver spine titles. Marbled endpapers. Page marker ribbon. Litho printed. Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 51. Book is signed by the author and laid in is an original signed ink drawing by the author, and a facsimile invitational card to a Spare exhibition from 1909. 250 pages. An errata slip is also present. Includes two plates sections in color, plus over 100 illustrations in black and white. A fine copy in like dust jacket, in a fine cloth-covered slipcase with large silver design to front panel. A fantastic production. Comprising a revised and much expanded republication of the long out of print books ‘The Early Work…’ and ‘The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare’, this volume features 93 color images and includes 50 unpublished artworks by Spare. In addition, it features 20 very early ink drawings from a recently discovered… Read More

Candlelight Books, 1964. First Edition. PBO. CB 101 (not in Holroyd). Cover artist unknown. A fine copy. Sex contracts ... signed, sealed and delivered, these wanton chicks gave out on the company plan. No guy was too strange or too different to turn down. They gave their bodies to the V.I.P.'s who needed diversion. So if one good sex deal deserved another, the girls made sure it was down on paper. They wrote a baudy entity on their curvey, undotted lines and the sex bargain was fulfilled for profit."

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2011. Reprint. Hardcovers (2 volume set). Octavo. clxi + 470, 471 - 1046pp. Bound in red boards with gilt spine titles. A very good set of books in near fine, pictorial dust jackets. Classic work of Indian folk magic. Atharva-Veda means the Veda of the Atharvan or the Knowledge of Magic Formulas. The great importance of the Atharva-Veda Samhita lies in the fact that it is an invaluable source of knowledge of popular belief as yet uninfluenced by ancient Indian priestly religion, of the faith in numberless spirits, imps, ghosts and demons of every kind, and of the witchcraft so eminently important to ethnology and for the history of religion. It is a collection of 731 hymns, which contain about 6000 verses, in the recension which is best preserved. Many of the hymns contain charms, magic spells and incantations meant to be pronounced by the person who seeks some benefit, or more often by a sorcerer who would say it on his or her behalf. The most frequent goal of… Read More

Angora Press, No date (1990). Reprint. Softcover. Tall octavo. 112pp. A couple of light scrapes to front. A very good or better copy. Also known as Hollywood Drag and Let Me Die In Drag.The man on death row was prepared to die. When he faced the warden for the last time .. before his execution ... he was told that he had one last request. After all the years the warden had spent in penal institutions, this man's final request thoroughly shocked him. "What did you say?" he asked in disbelief. The prisoner looked at him calmly and repeated his request ... "I want to die as a woman!

New Delhi: Dev Publishers & Distributors, 2024. Softcovers. Octavo. 10 volumes. Titles listed below. All volumes in fine condition. Technically, this is not a complete set of Woodroffe's books but it does include all of his major works. The titles included are as follows: Mahanirvana Tantra: The Great Liberation; Principles of Tantra (Volumes 1 and 2 in one book); The Garland of Letters; Sakti and Sakta; Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali; The Serpent Power; The World as Power; Isha Upanishad, Bharata Shakti and The Seed of Race; Introduction to Tantra Sastra; Is India Civilized? (Essays on Indian Culture).