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

No Place: Xoanon Publishing, 2012. First Edition. Stapled color wrappers. Octavo. 24pp. Limited to 250 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 115. Black and white frontispiece, illustrated with color photographs. Also included is a two sided sheet on white card stock, which lists all of the books, talismans, ephemera, etc., that were on display at the exhibition. Booklet and sheet are both in fine condition. Vox Baetyla XX, lists 96 items (books, talismans and other objects) which were on exhibit during the 2012 Esoteric Book Conference held in Seattle.

London: Fulgur Limited, 2008. First Edition. Tall 4to. Green cloth with white spine titles in original matching dust jacket. Limited to 700 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 276. xi + [38]pp. Nineteen full page color drawings by Spare. Small corner bump, otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket. Reproduction of a sketchbook featuring delicately colored drawings created by Spare in 1924. Produced at a time when his life was in acute crisis, the drawings evoke a rare world of grotesque truth and sublime transcendence. It includes an analytical introductory essay by Robert Ansell discussing the development of Spare’s magic-aesthetic. Published here for the first time, this important sketchbook can be considered a companion volume to The Book of Ugly Ecstasy.

Varanasi: Prachya Prakashan, 2005. Reprint. This is No. 11 in the Tantra Granthamala series. Hardcover. Octavo. Paginated in Sanskrit (approximately 60 pages). A very good copy in like dust jacket. This is the first translation into English of Vamakesvarimatam, one of the most authoritative and oft-quoted manuals of Sri Vidya, and one, furthermore, with a decidedly Kaula slant. In common with many other Tantras, Vamakesvara is also hard to understand owing to its use of codings and language meant only for the initiates. The detailed understanding of these codings depend on Oral instruction, for initiates only, and Mike Magee being one such, has very successfully decoded the hidden meaning and made them clear in his Translation. Michael Magee was for seven years a Co-editor of the international Publication "SOTHIS" which covered the esoteric sciences of both East and West in a comprehensive fashion. In 1976 he began his study of Sanskrit, attending classes at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan… Read More