Occult

London: Head Productions, 1993 A Bizarre mix of Anarchism, Occult and psychedelic drugs in the form of collage-artwork, cartoons and articles.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1972 Second Printing. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929 Translation of 1927 book by Parisian philosopher and theologian on the effect of magic on the mind. Some chipping and tearing to d/j.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Denoel, 1954 One of the most important books on the subject. Préface du Docteur D.J. van Lennep. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Editions Prima, 1936 The black mass, satanic rituals, Vampires etc. French text. Some minor wear and foxing.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Star Distributors, 1979 Explicit erotic novel with a satanic theme. Part of the Satan's Library Series.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Star Distributors, 1979 Explicit erotic novel with a satanic theme. Part of the Satan's Library Series.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Freemasons' Hall, 1978 First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Privately Printed, 1889 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Privately Printed, 1891 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Privately Printed, 1891 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Kenning, 1901 A history of the Chesire Freemasons. Hand numbered limited edition signed by the author 166/500.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Collins, 1958 Includes bibliography and index.. Second Impression. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Longman, 1981 Surveys previous works on Yoruba religion and outlines a typology of beliefs, as well as offers an interpretation of religious rites as elements of sacrificial system. This serious study gives valuable material for other approaches to religion-comparative, scientific and theological in addition to providing a point to reference for further studies of socio-religious change and a glimpse into the potential future of the Yoruba religion.. Second Printing. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: The Pioneer Press, 1908 Religion from an atheist viewpoint.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Signet, 1968 Scarce book on the voodoo cults of Haiti.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Hollywood: Nosferatu Productions, 1993 Important publication of the gothic underground. Music, films, books etc.. First Edition. Magazine. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1970 Biographical study along with a glossary.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Methuen & Co., 1926 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Tempe: American Federation of Astrologers nd. c.1960.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Pan, 1968 Showing wear. Film tie-in edition. Rare in any condition.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Newport: Coxland Press, 1992. The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) is a non-institutionalized Satanic Order, initially formed in the United Kingdom and which rose to prominence during the 1980's and 1990's. The Order postulates Satanism as being a highly individualized quest that aims to create personal excellence and Self deification. This is thought to aid in the evolution of the individual which in turn leads to the transformation of society into a higher, refined civilization. The ONA also condones, practices, and encourages human sacrifice as a means of eliminating the weak. Nice people. Hand numbered limited edition 14/33, signed by the author. Inentation to front cover, minor red ink stain to spine. Thought to be by David Myatt.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Newport: Brekekk, 1990. The Order of Nine Angles (ONA) is a non-institutionalized Satanic Order, initially formed in the United Kingdom and which rose to prominence during the 1980's and 1990's. The Order postulates Satanism as being a highly individualized quest that aims to create personal excellence and Self deification. This is thought to aid in the evolution of the individual which in turn leads to the transformation of society into a higher, refined civilization. The ONA also condones, practices, and encourages human sacrifice as a means of eliminating the weak. Nice people. Thought to be by David Myatt.. First Edition. Magazine. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1944 This essay written from the point of view of a medical psychologist, is an influential account of ESP.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: The Occult Book Society, 1937 Some fading to boards. nd c.1950s.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1956 A strange and fascinating story in which the author tries to verify the details provided through his subject Ruth Simmons who under hypnosis, he took back in time before her birth to another life, that of Bridey Murphy, a nineteenth century Irish woman. Split to spine, repaired.. Second Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1902 Covers grubby.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1913 Some minor markings to boards.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1925 Covers the formation of the Atom, Spirit-Matter, Sub-Planes, Consciousness, the Peopling of the Field, the Third Life-Wave, Monad at Work, Consciousness & Self-Consciousness. Spine repaired with what appears to be wallpaper, boards crubby.. Fifth Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madras: The Theosophist Office, 1912 Transcriptions of lectures delivered in Benares in 1911. Front hinge cracked, but holding. Covers grubby.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1898 Chapters on thought control; building of character; spiritual alchemy; on the threshold. fep and title page missing.. First Edition. Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1919 Adyar Pamphlets No. 24. Some fading to covers.. Second Printing. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1897 Bound issues in one volume, outer spine missing but binding holding, corners rubbed.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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South Hadley: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1983 First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: New English Library, 1972 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: C.W. Daniel Company, 1938 Abridged edition. d/j repaired with what appears to be wallpaper.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Los Angeles: Theosophical Publishing House, 1918 Information on the principle Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pali, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature (preface). A sensational medium in her Russian homeland, Blavatsky married in her 17th year a man very much her senior, Nicephore Blavatsky, a Russian official in Caucasia, from whom she was separated after a few months. During her next 20 years Blavatsky appears to have traveled widely in Canada, Texas, Mexico, and India, with 2 attempts on Tibet. In one of these she seems to have crossed the frontier alone in disguise, been lost in the desert, and, after many adventures, been conducted back by a party of horseman . In 1875 she conceived the plan of combining the spiritualistic control with the Buddhist legends about Tibetan sages (EB-11). She was the founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 in New York. Some fading and marking to boards and spine.. Second Printing. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1979 Collected writings in three volumes originally published in 1888. Includes index, glossary, notes and bibliogrpahy.. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1930 Deals with many local customs and folk-lore in the Cotswolds during the 19th century. Rebound in strong library. Scarce.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Charles Skilton, 1987 First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Charles Skilton, 1984 First Edition. Hardcover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Folk-Lore Society, 1961 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Coronet, 2001 Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet, novelist, bisexual adventurer and drug user was not a man to inspire half-hearted reaction in his own lifetime. He was either adored or vilified. So Martin Booth's crisply written, agenda-free biography which sets out simply to tell the truth objectively is a welcome addition to Crowley literature. Born to a wealthy brewing family, Crowley, whose parents belonged to the fanatical Plymouth Brethren sect, had a miserably repressed childhood. He spent much of the rest of his life apparently trying to shake off what he regarded as the filth of Christianity. Magic for Crowley, who decided while still at Cambridge in 1898 on a career as a magus, was intrinsically linked to human will. He came to believe that he and his disciples could control almost anything by exerting will. Like the poet WB Yeats he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Eventually he became leader of the Order of the Oriental Templars or Ordo Templi Orientis, which survives as a huge international cult organisation and gave Booth access to its archives. As Booth says "Crowley may have been oversexed but he was first and foremost a religious and not a debauched character". But famously, and how the tabloid press loved it, Crowley believed that sex was what liberated the creative force necessary to his "work" and he had ritual (and spontaneous) vaginal and or anal intercourse with many hundreds of women and men all over the world. Sometimes the rituals--upon which Booth is to be congratulated for sparing us too many prurient details--involved animals too. Drugs changed the perception of the participants. Booth's book does what it promises. It provides the extraordinary facts and leaves you to decide for yourself from an informed position whether this man--in whom interest has grown considerably since his death in 1947, especially during the 1960s--was merely a degenerate charlatan or an impassioned, although arguably misguided, magical missionary, pitiful at the end of his life.. Third Printing. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Georg Allen & Unwin, 1969 The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony. Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture. The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Pauline Brown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Tisbury: The Compton Press, 1979 A detailed study in comparitive literature that covers sources in Dutch, German and other continental contributions.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1973 An unread copy.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Ventura: Elegia, 1992 Important publication of the gothic underground. Music, films, books etc.. First Edition. Magazine. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900 Rebound in strong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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St. Ives: James Pike Ltd, 1977 Some minor rubbing to the cover. Important essay of the occult history of London.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Cambridge University Press, 1952 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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