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

No Place: Transmutation Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Limited Edition of 77 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 63. 86pp. Bound in black cloth spine over purple boards with silver device and titles to front. Spine titled in silver. Illustrated in b&w by Hagen von Tulien. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. Scarce. Frater U.D. is a German occultist, a longtime member of the Fraternitas Saturni, and co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros. From the author: "If this were some ordinary (as in: purely literary) anthology of poems with some fancy but equally conventional illustrations, rest assured we wouldn't bother you with it nor waste your time as well as ours.Only this isn't quite the case here. As you won't need me to tell you, "gnosis" is generally understood to be "revealed salvific knowledge" i.e. nothing that will easily render itself to the limitations of rationalist cognition and raciocination of the prevalent… Read More

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 130pp. Cover art by Edward Valigursky. Near fine. Includes Spawn of the Dark One by Robert Bloch; The Invisible Man Murder Case by Henry Slesar, and other short fiction pieces. Also includes The Riddle of Levitation by Frank Russell (non-fiction).

Oakland: Lloyd E, Jones - Magic Limited, 1952. Reprint. Stapled wrappers. 40 pp. A few b&w illustrations. Former owner's name and mailing label. Very Good. Includes a number of choice effects by Ovette and Louis Lam (of Holland), plus a couple others.

London: George Johnson, 1925. First Edition. Stapled wrappers (4.25 x 5.5 inches). 32 pp. With b&w illustrations. Some fading to edges. Very good. Jardine Ellis was a master of what is known to Conjurers as “close quarter work.” The majority of his effects were designed to puzzle the single onlooker, and in this particular class of Magical deception he was a past master. Ellis was quite secretive about his effects but once stated "when I am gone it does not matter what becomes of them.” So, here are explanations of 12 of his deceptions.

New York: D. Robbins & Company, 1948. Stapled card covers. 24 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very Good. It is exactly as the title suggests.

Albany, OR: J. A. Enterprises, 1973. First Edition. Card covers in white comb binding (as issued). Octavo. 52 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very Good. Here are five tricks using dollar coins with detailed instructions by Andrus.

London: Fulgur Limited, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tall quarto. Limited to 600- standard copies bound in brown cloth, with original dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w and color. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The recent discovery of Spare's original Conceptual Folio for the book, once owned by the respected writer E.M. Forster, has revealed an unseen series of powerful magico-erotic drawings - termed by Spare 'blasphemous Ideographs' - that provide an important key to understanding the 'secret ritual of Self-Love' that underlies this evocative and deeply personal work. This new edition features a high quality facsimile of the first edition from 1921 plus a full color facsimile of the Conceptual Folio. Designed, edited and compiled by Robert Ansell.

Koln: Taschen, 2000. No edition stated. Softcover. Quarto. 512pp. Illustrated with hundreds of b&w photographs. Some light edge wear otherwise a near fine copy. Hundreds of photographs presented from the collection of Mark Rotenberg. Nothing is held back. Very explicit. Also includes an insightful interview with Rotenberg.

London: Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo. This is the first edition, in the second state binding (first state binding had full gilt image to front panel). Bound in green cloth with blind-stamped image to front panel. 546pp. 240 black and white illustrations. Short tear to cloth at upper spine. Light corner wear, otherwise a near fine copy. This is Budge’s classic work on the religion of the predynastic portion of Egyptian history as well as the cults, theological systems and religions of the dynastic period. The book is in two parts. Part one contains the principal facts about the religious beliefs and thoughts of the Egyptians, and their conception of God and the ‘gods’, their enneads and triads, the religions and systems of the great cities, etc. Magic, the cult of animals, the cult of Osiris, and the Tuat, or Other World, are treated at some length. Part two of this work is devoted to a series of revised English translations of a… Read More