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London: MacMillan and Co., 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Stout octavo. 2 Volumes. xl + 724; x + 855 pp. Both volumes in brown buckram with gilt titles and design to spines. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Some light edge wear but both volumes in very good to near fine condition. A massive study of all the pagan races and tribes of the Malay Peninsula with informative details on their belief systems, customs, rituals, languages, and so much more. An ethnographic classic!

After Hours, 1965. First Edition. PBO. AH 126 (Holroyd page 60). Cover by Eric Stanton. A fine copy.

Wee Hours, 1968. First Edition. PBO. WH 566 (Holroyd page 535). Cover by Eric Stanton. Fine. Sleaze novel with S&M and bondage scenes.

London: Scion Limited , 1951. First Edition. A Scion Scientific Novel". Digest size. Cover art by R.T. (Ron Turner). Some light wrinkles to spine, corner crease.A very good or better copy. A planet frozen in time, saves nine!

Union City, NJ: Ken Allen Products, 1958. First Edition. Single sheets with 2-comb binding (as issued). Octavo. 23 pp. Text on different colored sheets of paper. Very well preserved for this fragile item. Very good. Comic monologues, one-liners, gags, jokes and funny stories.

New York: Pressman Corporation, 1975. First Edition. Stapled wrappers with Devil head image to front. 30 pp. Last page stuck to back cover but this may be a blank page. Light edge wear. Very good. Instructions on how to perform your own magic show.

Phantom Books, 1965. First Edition. PBO. Phantom Books 54 (not in Holroyd). Cover artist unknown. Light spine crease otherwise a near fine copy. Sadistic women's prison novel.

Macclesfield, UK: Xoanon Publishing, 2008. Prospectus for the Second Edition of QUTUB. Macclesford, UK, Xoanon Publishing. 2008. One leaf, 29.5 x 21 cm (8.25 x 12 inches), printed one side, Illustrated. Offers the Deluxe Edition of 72 copies at £90.00 and the standard edition at £38.00. Folded once, fine condition.

Macclesfield, UK: Xoanon Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Prospectus for the First Edition of Andrew Chumbley's The Satyr's Sermon. One leaf, card paper, 21.5 x 14 cm (5.5 x 8.5 inches), printed both sides, Illustrated. Offers the Deluxe Edition of 111 copies at £235.00 and the standard edition at £110.00. Fine condition.

Xoanon Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Joint Address of Hercules, California and Macclesfield, UK. Prospectus for the first edition of Eikostos. One leaf printed on both sides, in brown, black and white on glossy illustrated paper, 20.5 x 20.5 cm (8 x 8 inches). Offers the standard edition of 740 copies only at $77.00 / £49.00. Fine condition.

Hercules, CA: Xoanon Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Prospectus for the First Edition of Andrew Chumbley's The Satyr's Sermon. One leaf, card paper, 21.5 x 14 cm (5.5 x 8.5 inches), printed both sides, Illustrated. This is the American Issue, with the mailing address in Hercules, California. Offers the Deluxe Edition of 111 copies at $350.00, and the standard edition at $165.00. Fine condition.

[Hercules, CA]: Xoanon Publishing, No date [2017]. First Edition. Prospectus for the First Edition of Lapis Lamiis. One leaf, printed one side on off-white card stock, 21.5 x 12 cm (4.75 x 8.5 inches). Offers the standard edition of 222 copies at $27.00. Prosepctus is cut slightly uneven. Otherwise in Fine condition.

Princeton University Press, 1969. Second Printing. Large quarto. Title page in red and black. xiv + 118 pp. + 70 full-page b/w plates and additional illustrations including one fold-out diagram. Some edge and corner wear, dust jacket is price clipped with some mild wear. A very good copy in like dust jacket. This is the scarcest volume of this series. The earliest version of religious texts of ancient Egypt, which are today generally known as the Pyramid Texts, appeared first on the walls of the burial chambers of King Unas, in his pyramid at Sakkara, near Cairo. These potent spells were inscribed in order to assist the king's passage from his earthly body into the world of the beyond, and they imply the recognition of his human qualities that must undergo divine transformation after death. As the first of the pyramids to bear inscriptions in its interior, it is one of the oldest literary documents not only of Egypt but of mankind itself. The inscriptions of Unas are a relatively late discovery,… Read More