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

[Richmond Vista, CA]: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 224pp. This special edition was limited to 100 hand-numbered copies bound in full red morocco. Gilt titles and design to spine. Housed in a slipcase. Black endpapers. Over 275 illustrations, 130 of which are in full color. A fine copy in like slipcase. The Occult Reliquary concerns the Richel-Eldermans Collection, an archive of some 2,000 magical images and artifacts housed in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall. Situated at the crossroads of erotic magic, ceremonial angelic conjuration, and witchcraft, the images comprise, in part, a pictorial cipher of the rituals of Ars Amatoria, a European magical order using sex magic, and the lesser-known M M , based in the Hague and Leiden. Also referenced among the collection are materials relating to A A of Aleister Crowley. The transfixing procession of images, charms, magical seals, and ritual objects in the Collection is the work of multiple artists, and displays… Read More

Detroit: Johnson, Smith & Co., No date (circa 1910). No edition stated. Original wrappers. Small octavo. 30 pp., plus numerous ads which take up the second half othe volume. Corner of front cover clipped. Vertical crease to covers. Light staining to left of front cover. One small chip near hinge area of first page. Very good. A collection of helpful hints and recipes for all sorts of things one would encounter back in the day, plus some charms, tricks, and info on hypnotism and ventriloquism. The ads which take up the second half of the book are quite fascinating. Besides tricks and gags, one could also order movie projectors, radios, and much more, including guns!

London: The Magic Wand, 1943. No edition stated. Brown pictorial wrappers (5 x 7.25 inches). 40 pp. With b&w illustrations. Price sticker ghost to upper right of title page. Very good. This is part 1 of what was a 2 part series. Includes some unusual magic experiments.

Unique Book, 1967. First Edition. PBO. UB 146 (Not in Holroyd). Cover by Eric Stanton. A near fine copy.

Richmond Vista: Three Hands Press, 2010. First Edition. Standard hardcover edition limited to 726 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 45. Bound in dark grey cloth with textured black end papers. 152 pages. With black and white illustrations by the author. A fine copy in a fine, letterpress dust jacket. The Opuscula Magica series is scheduled for four volumes (two have been published). The series presents short exegetical works on magic by the British occult author Andrew D. Chumbley (1967-2004) including his magical essays, homilies, and other obscure works which originally appeared in small-circulation occult journals now out of print. Volume One contains nine essays written between 1990 and 2003, including one previously unpublished. This volume also includes an Author’s Introduction never before published, as well as an expanded version of the interview with Chumbley in The Cauldron Magazine. The essays reflect a degree of magical insight, clarity of vision, and creativity seldom equaled in… Read More

San Diego: Late-Hour Library, 1968. First Edition. PBO. LL750 (Holroyd page 340). Cover art by Tomas Cannizarro. A fine copy. The private stud was on a trail that pointed to an amusement park that specialized in orgies. He had to follow the scent through an open city ...

New York: Tudor Publishing, 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 411pp. Blue cloth with gilt design and titles to spine. Edge and corner wear to the otherwise beautiful dust jacket. A very good copy in like jacket. The Dabistan was written in the 17th century by Moshan Ali, a widely traveled Persian scholar. It presents an outline of all the religions, creeds and sects known to the Orient, including Judaism and Christianity. No other work gives a more complete pictire of the customs, beliefs and manners of the people of the East. The famous 18th century Orientalist, Sir William Jones, who first brought this work to the attention of the Western world says of it: "It contains more recondite learning, more entertaining history, more beautiful specimens of poetry, more ingenuity and wit, more indecency and blasphemy than I ever saw in a single volume".

Holyoke: Columbia Publishers, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 130pp. Cover art by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller). Near fine. Includes Riddle of the Deadly Paradise by Charles Long; The Sun Stood Still by Maurice Vaisberg M.D., and others

Original pointillistic study in black ink measuring 117 x 97mm in A4 white card frame. This item is from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). Comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in near fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. Description from Provenance card; "genitalia take on sigil-like crab form, deeply ambiguous.

Original pointillistic study in black ink measuring 141 x 76mm in A4 white card frame. This item is from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). Comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in near fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. Description from Provenance card; "Shimmering lines surround what may be an eye or orifice above countered by a variant shade version below.

An original artwork: Untitled 2 (The priestess with aroused vulva): Original pointillistic study in black ink. Measures 110 x 70mm in A4 grey card frame. This piece was from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). It comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. This particular drawing was published in “Starfire” Journal of the New Aeon. Vol. II No. 1, to illustrate an article entitled Bastrum-Enoi / Ast Rubi-Onem by the artist.

No place: No publisher, No date. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 20 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Former owner's small address label to inside front cover (Mr. Mystic the Magician). Light edge and corner wear. Very good. Includes several tricks by Eddie Joseph. The Suggested Routines by Abbott is a list of routines for different ocassions/events and only runs two pages.

An original artwork: Untitled 3 (A grieving Priestess below a proud vulva): Pen on paper. Measures 11cm x 7cm in A4 grey card frame. This piece was from the collection of Soror Pasht Akhti & Frater Anshar of the Cultus Sabbati. The collection was originally sold by Caduceus Books (Ben Fernee). It comes with the original certificate of provenance signed by Ben Fernee. Artwork is in fine condition. Soror Pasht-Akhti was a member of the Cultus Sabbati under Andrew Chumbley. This particular drawing was published in “Starfire” Journal of the New Aeon. Vol. II No. 1, to illustrate an article entitled Bastrum-Enoi / Ast Rubi-Onem by the artist.

Holyoke: Columbia Publishers, 1958. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers (digest). 130pp. Cover art by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller). Near fine. Includes The Outcasts by George H. Smith; The Destroyers by Theodore Thomas, Fourth Factor by Brian W. Aldiss, and more.