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

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 The text draws upon previously unpublished images, texts and correspondence to embody the patterning of magical emanation crucial to the manifestation of the XOANON corpus.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.

Varanasi: Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover in two volumes. Octavo. xxiii + 360; xi + 363 - 706pp. Both volumes bound in shimmering red silk-like material with gilt titles to front and spine. In the original dust jackets. Red page marker ribbon in each volume. Both volumes in very good or better condition in near fine dust jackets. Sabara mantras are those mantras written in regional languages and which require minimal ritual procedures in order to achieve desires and also to work magic. They were designed for people who were mostly illiterate. There are mantras here for a variety of different deities, both gods and goddesses, and many that can be used for healing, cursing (even killing), preventing witchcraft or black magic, and practically everything else. Precise instructions are given for each mantra and their various uses. At the end of the second volume is a Tantric Herbal glossary with some very useful information.

Los Angeles: F. G. Thayer, no date (ca 1915). Second Edition. Stapled wrappers. 12mo (5 x 7 inches). Unpaginated [16 pp]. Illustrated in b&w. Light edge wear to oversized covers. Small letter "G" written at lower left front. Near fine.

Los Angeles: F. G. Thayer, no date (ca 1915). Stapled wrappers. 12mo (4.75 x 7 inches). 16 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Small area of surface loss to upper front of first page, light edge wear to oversized covers. Otherwise near fine. Selection of vintage magic tricks.

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.

New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1906. No edition stated. Staple bound with red wrappers. Small format (4.5 x 6.75 inches). 63 pp., plus ads. Portrait of Pallme as frontispiece. Additional portraits of Keller, Imro Fox, and others. Small area of surface loss to upper right of front cover. Slight wear and closed tear to upper spine. A very good or better copy of this scarce volume. Not a collection of tricks but rather a complete rundown on the art of being a magician: the different elements of performing, preparations, and much more. Superb!

UK: Scarlet Imprint, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without dust jacket) Octavo. Limited to 1200 copies. Bound in fine black cloth emblazoned with a gilt shield bearing seven keyholes, blackened edges, textured endpapers in British racing green, and a black page-marker ribbon. 368 pages with colour facsimile of British Library Additional manuscript 36674. Edited and introduced by Phil Legard, with supplementary essays by Alexander Cummins, and a foreword by Dan Harms. Illustration of the Tree of Crystal by Sin Eater. A fine copy. The magical experiments conducted by Elizabethan explorer, soldier and courtier Humphrey Gilbert, along with his scryer John Davis, during the spring of 1567 are notable for their forceful methods and stripped down Protestant ritual. The spirits are called into a ‘crystal stone’ by way of a large number of conjurations, charges, constraints, curses and bonds. The work includes the practical conjuration of Bleth, Aosal, Assassel (Azazel) and the four demon… Read More

Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional De Arte Decorativo, 2007. First Edition. paperback. Large quarto. Unpaginated [112pp]. Text in Spanish and English. Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout. Near fine. Amazing catalogue of the Martin Pacheco magic collection which was exhibited at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires Argentina. With over 240 color photographs, the vast majority of which show posters, but also apparatus, ephemera, magic sets and books. The images are stunning to say the least. A superb collection.