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

Varanasi: Chaukhamba Surbharti Prakashan, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 123pp. Plain red boards in pictorial dust jacket. Black and white diagrams. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Being written by Shiva himself, this Tantra in itself is capable of fulfilling all worldly desires. Being preached to Lankesh Ravan by Lord Shiva, it consists of the worship rituals of Sri Kali Ji and Sri Ardrapati Devi. It has various exorcisms, Yakshini accomplishments and Bhootini and Indrajaal accomplishments along with various Ayurveda treatments. Those who use it in the right manner, without hurting human civilization, would become eligible for the next stages of tantric penances, which takes the seeker to the supreme abode. In deciphering the subtitle we find that the meaning of "Indrajal" is to cast powerful hallucinations on someone to distract his mind from reality and also used to cast different kinds of spells using spirits. The word "Bhootini" is widely used… Read More

Suffolk [UK]: Antique Collector's Club, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Brown cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Illustrated throughout in b&w. A fine copy in like dust jacket. An excellent look at the mysteries and lore of book collecting. The technical aspects of bookmaking, the language of book collection, the vexed question of first editions, the matter of completeness and condition, and a lengthy glossary clarifies and puts in context many of the terms often loosely bandied about.

Bolingbrook, IL: The Teitan Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lamen to upper front panel. Spine titled in gilt. 416 pages, b/w photographs. Former owner's name neatly inked (small) to top right of front free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Others covered here are Jack Parsons, C.F. Russell, Jane Wolfe, Max Schneider, Louis Culling, Grady McMurtry, and many more. Much of the source material that Starr worked with came directly from Smith's wife, Helen Parsons Smith.