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

New York: Louis Tannen, 1945. First Edition. Stapled card covers. Octavo. 36 pp. Illustrated with photos and diagrams. Former owner's circular blind-stamped initials to copyright page. A very good copy. Complete instructions for Miller's classic Linking Ring Routine with detailed photographs.

[UK]: Darengo Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Large format softcover. Oxfordshire Communications in Egyptology III. 135 pp. Black and white illustrations. A fine, unread copy. This important work considers the Egyptian god Anubis as guardian of the ‘Shaman’s Gate’ which bridges this world and the next. The author quotes liberally from Egyptian sources, some of which have not previously been translated. Anubis, the jackal god who presides over the embalming process, judge and guide of souls, has a critical function in the processes of death, rebirth, and reintegration. Comparaitive material from other mythologies is cited to illustrate the universality of the archetypes of the dog/wolf and the ‘strait gate’ between earth and heaven. This book also includes a text, with translation and commentary, of the invocation to Anubis, Osiris, and other chthonic deiies (PGM XXIII; pOxy 412). This hymn from the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri is a fine poem and an excellent example of the… Read More

Fethistory, 2023. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 325pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Tiny corner bump else near fine. 325+ pages, hundreds of photos, spanning the entire career of Jackie Miller—one of the greatest pin-up, figure, and fetish models of the 1950s and '60s. Includes commentary from Jackie Miller herself. Included in this volume are rare images from some of the key cult photographers of the time: Harry Amdur, Bunny Yeager, Allen Cobert, Robert Silverberg, Jack Bradley, Leonard Burtman, Irving Klaw, Dean Hamilton, and Sam Menning. A contemporary of Bettie Page, Jackie Miller arrived in New York City in the mid-'50s and soon found herself as one of the era's most popular models. Towering at 5'11, she was no demure wisp who walked softly and faded into the background. Instead she was determined to be seen. Her photographs convey a woman eager to smash the conservative moral attitudes of the day. This is the first ever book of photographs dedicated to this… Read More