Search Results: Titles starting with A from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

UK: Hell Fire Club Books, no date (2018). Privately Printed. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Limited to 156 copies bound in quarter scarlet pigskin. Seven-fold Star of Babalon blind-stamped to front. Mark of the Beast stamped in gold to the center, with Aleister Crowley's facsimile signature in gilt to lower front, gilt titling to spine. Includes folding card with publication details and limitation number. Illustrated with b/w figures and emblems. A lovely book production. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. This invaluable work gathers together all the available information pertaining to the sex magic practices and rituals of the O.T.O. from various authors and practitioners including Crowley, Theodor Reuss, Frater Achad, Gerald Yorke, Marcelo Motta, and many others. Includes the full texts of Crowley's Amrita, De Arte Magica, and others as well as numerous Secret Papers of the O.T.O. Additional information is gleaned from essays, letters, and more. CONTENTS: Introduction; Hymn to Pan with… Read More

Richmond Vista, CA: Xoanon Publishing, 2007. First Printing. Single sheet, printed on one side, 8.5 x 11 inches. "Xoanon Publishing Limited is pleased to announce the formation of Three Hands Press, a sister publishing house treating contemporary and historical Metaphysical, Folkloric, and Occult Subjects." A fine copy. The sheet invites subscribers to submit name and contact information as a charter subscriber to "this new publishing endeavour". Authors slated for publication at the time of this announcement are: Andrew D. Chumbley, Michael Howard, Dale Pendell, and Daniel A. Schulke.

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

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xi + 476 pp. Blue cloth with silver spine titles. Illustrated with color plates and b&w photographs. Small bump to lower spine. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. Scarce. Beads, bones, rags, straw, leather, pottery, fur, feathers and blood—these are the raw materials of vodun artworks. The power of these images lies not only in their aesthetic, and counter-aesthetic, appeal but also in their psychological and emotional effect. As objects of fury and force, these works are intended to protect and empower people and cultures that have long been oppressed.In this first major study of its kind, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the artworks of the contemporary vodun cultures of southern Benin and Togo in West Africa as well as the related voudou traditions of Haiti, New Orleans, and historic Salem, Massachusetts. Blier employs a variety of theoretically sophisticated psychological, anthropological, and… Read More

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

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 146pp. Cover art by Edward Valigursky. Light edge wear otherwise near fine. Includes Parasyche by Jack Vance (book-length novel); Garden of Evil by Henry Slesar (illustrated by Virgil Finlay), and more.

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.

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

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.

Brussels: A New Think Publication, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Octavo. Limited to 400 copies.114 pp. Small slip with 3 additional listings is laid in. Includes a few musical scores. An uncommon item. A very good copy. A complete discography (through 1983) of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago (Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Don Moye, Malachai Favors, and others) featuring poetry, photography, song lyrics, and more.

Koln : Taschen, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (10 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches). Red boards with white lettering. In original dust jacket. Hundreds of illustrations. A near fine copy in like dust jacket. A fantastic collection of artwork by pioneer fetish artist Eric Stanton. If one were to ask cartoonist Eric Stanton what he did for a living, he'd say he illustrated people's "fantasies." Here is a compendium of his stylistically unmistakable--and sexually explicit--drawings of domination and S/M erotica. The book traces his years working with Irving Klaw and others.

Chicago: Iceberg Projects, 2022. First Edition. Single sheet folded once to make a 4 page booklet. Loose single-sided sheet laid-in. A fine copy. This brochure was created for the premier US exhibition of Austin Spare's drawings which make up the recently published book by Fulgur Press: Psychopathia Sexualis: Drawings from the Kinsey Institute. The brochure was only available during the exhibition which ran from March 19th to May 22nd, 2022. 

Chicago: Merit Books, 1961. First Edition. PBO. 602 (Holroyd page 360). Cover art by Richard Sloan. Very mild edge wear. Near fine. Quite scarce. I spent many, many hours admiring and fondling my beauties. They were an obsession to me. I wanted to possess the finest in womanhood. But no one will ever believe my story. No one will believe that sex and murder were as necessary to my plan as bread and water are to survival." Okay, this one is pretty disturbing! Myles Neville is actually Jerry M. Goff Jr.