Rare books from By The Way Books

Santa Fe: Bocaccio Press, 1975. First edition thus. Case edges are worn; External paper surfaces somewhat soiled; Otherwise excellent condition.. Presentation copy inscribed by the illustrator(s) as 'M Taylor McCall' and parenthetically signed 'Love Mick', in addition to standard copy inscription; ('Taylor McCall' is the artist couple Mick Taylor and Sheena McCall, they are friends of the singer Donovan Leitch who provided illustrations for his albums Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow and illustrated his 1970 collection of writings, Behind Us, also published by Boccaccio Press); Number 15 of 150 copies, illustrated edition of Ouspensky's original of 1913, with 23 multi-colour silk-screen prints and letterpress in loose gatherings, heightened in gold and silver, pages measure 23 3/4" X 16 1/4"; Printed on special order hemp paper made by Luigi Amatruda in Amalfi, Italy, untrimmed with deckled-edges; Includes an introduction booklet, likely the prospectus, untrimmed; In original half calf portfolio… Read More

London: Thomas Northcott, 1693. Second edition. Leather binding in very good condition except for a 1/4" cut to the top of the spine; Plane binding in keeping with early Friends publications, though new end papers appear to be more recent; Repaired with new end papers, original rear paste-down retained; Pages show modest age toning; a couple pages with light stain to lower corner; One leaf has a 3/4" tear which runs into text between lines; A couple pages, 110/111 with a couple stains in the text; Last 14 pages have small stain at the fore-edge.. Bronner & Fraser 96B; "copyright" page facing title page reading 'Licensed, May 24, 1693' is pasted to the end paper, not part of gathering A and is not referenced in Bronner & Fraser's collation; [12] 136 pages; 467 entries, one more than in the first edition.

Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd in association with Hedley, 1984. First edition. Leather bound in very good condition in a very good slipcase; Slight rubbing and a couple small spots to the spine.. Signed by Derek Taylor, George Harrison and Larry Smith (who designed the end papers. Limited to 2000 numbered copies. Publisher's original dark brown half leather, with five raised bands and gilt title and decorations to the spine, a gilt ship illustration to the upper board, and a gilt reproduction of Taylor's signature to the lower board. All page edges gilt and with bound in marking ribbon and buckram slipcase. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles of personal documents and memorabilia; Errata slip pasted in at rear before List of Illustrations.

Lama Foundation, 1970. First edition. Very good condition; Lacking mandala on front cover; Modest stain to the corner of the first page; Twine has been replaced, not original; Rear cover has a small ripple to it; Both covers in laminate, assumed applied later; LP in very good condition in new paper sleeve; Cookbook and Quotations pages in very good condition.. 11.24" x 11.25", 108 pages in fourteen signatures bound with twine with LP; Plus, Cookbook for a Sacred Life: 7.5" x 7.5" stapled booklet, 121 pages; And Quotations pages: 4 pages 16" x 8", each page has 8 segments with Cut-line boarders with quotes from spiritual masters on both sides.

London: William Charlton Wright, 1835. Third edition. Modest soil to title page and plates with old tear on frontis plate at fold neatly closed on verso; Binding and slipcase very good except for small bump to corner of the case.. by the author of the Prophetic Messenger, with coloured designs on copper by R. Cruikshank & the author, and a piece of music by Blewitt";12mo, 7" x 4"; pp. 148, 4 (music by Blewitt), 149-198, [2] (ads); Inserted engraved hand-colored folding frontispiece (10.5" x 10.75") and hand-colored vignette title page, additional hand-colored engraved folding plate (10.75" x 11"), other tables and diagrams in the text; 20th-century half brown morocco over brown cloth covered boards, maroon morocco label on spine; and contained in a brown cloth slipcase.

Delhi: Sundarlal Jain, 1966. First edition. Paperback in good condition in custom box; Stain to spine edge of front cover from removed tape; Spine cover mostly missing; Partiall, 1.5", separation of front cover from text block, otherwise binding sound; Modest age toning to covers .. 198 pages. First edition of his first book in English.

1980. First printing. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket; Jacket edges worn and curling.. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies; Large landscape format, 13" x 11.5"; 560 pages.

New York: Privately Printed, 1951. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Small imprint of paperclip at top of title page; Small unrelated slipping pasted to top of copyright page.. Hand numberd '94' of 100 copies; Errata pasted in on front paste-down; 289 pages. King was a member of Orage's groups in New York, where he served in a teaching role for certain groups. He also is the only one to have set down in publishable form what Orage digested of Gurdjieff''s teaching.

Paris: La Society Anonyme des Editions de L'Quest, 1933. First printing. Paperback in good condition; Covers stained wear to spine and short tear to spine edge of fropnt cover; Cover and some pages creased and curled.. This is the first copy we have seen without suede covered paper covers; With one Registration bank, numbered 530; Ownership signature of Dr. Alfons Paquet, Alfons Paquet was a German writer who knew Alexandre de Salzmann in Germany, while on a tour of Turkey he crossed paths with de Salzmann while the latter was with Gurdjieff, later he helped set up readings of Beelzebub's Tales in germany (see Webb); 89 pages.

Poona: Rajneesh Foundation, 1984. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket; Modest wear to jacket with some ripples in the jacket laminate.. Limited edition of 1,500 copies, this copy unnumbered; Large oblong volume, profusely illustrated; 557 pages.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1950. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Modest wear to spine ends and corners; A few light blemishes to the covers; short cease to rear board.. Subscribers' edition with label pasted in stating 'This is Copy No. 135 Of the First Edition of the First Series of the Writings of G. Gurdjieff This edition has been made possible by those who had benefitted from his ideas and who wished to assist in the publication of his works. This copy was subscribed for by Eleanor Lindsay-Watson.' Copy number and subscriber's name are hand written in. Gurdjieff's name is a printed signature. 1238 pages.

New York: Weiser, 1992. Very good condition; Spine somewhat soiled and bowed from readings; Page edges somewhat soiled; Original glassine wraps present on three volumes, though a bit torn.. 10 volumes; Limited to 750 copies; pp. by volume: Vol. I: [iv], 255; II: 139, 397; III: 331, 76; IV: 352, viii, 113; V: 158, 176; VI: 170, vi, 124; VII:: 424, VIII: xi, 252, xvi, 101, 253-257; IX: xv, 313; X: xxxix, 223, xv, 244.

Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2014. First edition. Volumes in fine condition; Bump to one corner of slipcase.. Two volumes: Facsimile of Manuscript - Hardback in full calf leather binding incorporating skrying mirror. 416pp coloured pages (of which 209pp are blank) It is clearly stated to be the book of the Fratres Lucis and is bound to match the appearance of the book as Herbert envisaged and drew it in the frontispiece of the manuscript. All edges are hand gilded, thus avoiding the too shiny gaudiness of machine gilding. Leather joint, decorated endpapers. The front cover has a real satin silk doublure (a traditional bookbinding device, a panel of silk set into the inside of the boards). Inset into the doublure on the front board is a reproduction of a sigil from the book which features an eye within concentric circles. The actual eye itself if formed with a portion of paper from the original manuscript, so as to create a magical link with the original. In a recess of the doublure on the rear… Read More

London: A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R, Clavel at the Peacock, 1697. Third edition with Additions. Contents good; Modest foxing and toning; Stain to upper fore edge of most pages, not affecting text.. pp. [xxx], 148, [4] (Contents); In new modern cloth with new end papers.

Xoanon, 2015. Third edition. New condition.. Deluxe edition of 111 numbered copies bound in half Crimson Goatskin with corners, marbled panels with gilt impress, marble end papers, silk marker, in matching fine slipcase; With Subscribers' Confirmation Letter and Prospectus; New Foreword by Daniel Schulke and Soror I.S., plus a special new image has been added to the original book as well as three original Andrew Chumbley illustrations, which were not published in earlier editions; [x], 366 pages.