Ananga-Ranga; (Stage of the Bodiless One) or, The Hindu Art of Love (Ars Amoris Indica). Translated from the Sanskrit, and annotated by A.F.F. and B.F.R. by Translated by Arbuthnot, Forster Fitzgerald and Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1885

Tucson: UFO Photo Archives, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author, with short inscription. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. slight rubs to dustjacket. some light marginalia and a few turned page corners. 382pp. [ref. 3.104 AH].

London: Oxford University Press, 1899. Second edition. Cloth bound in very good condition.. Two volumes bound together; xxx, 492 & xxi, 448 pages.

New York, Pageant Press, 1953, hardcover, viii-173 pp, First Edition stated, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine-end and corner wear. An epic work of verse comprising a collection of inter-related poems 'to help establish a lasting peace upon our earth'. Presented as a tale of happenings to a family in varying voices of the Father, the Mother, and the Son.

It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family dressed in colorful robes and served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Chistie, Frank Zappa, and many other celebrities at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in their mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos with their spiritual leader, Father Yod. Yod was an outlandish figure who had 14 wives, drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted his own psychedelic rock band, Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time. He surprised many by suddenly morphing from health food restaurateur into mystical leader of what many considered a cult: a group of young people who lived strictly devoted to his esoteric teachings, unusual sexual practices, and philosophies of natural living and dying. Still, as controversial as he was to outsiders, Father Yod was, by inside accounts, a deeply loving and spiritually powerful magus who taught his Family to recognize their divinity within and… Read More

Ron L. Hubbard - Science of Survival. Simplified, Faster Dianetic Techniques - Wichita (Kansas), Hubbard Dianetic Foundation; The Wichita Publishing Co, 1951 - First Edition, 4th printing- Hardcover (rebound, library binding) - 328pp - 20x14 cmCondition Good - Rebound in library binding, label removed inside and small stamp on title page. Cover a bit dirty, inside in really good condition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Sri Niranjanananda Swamy, India, 1949; Second Edition; 8vo, 376 pages plus a 14-page index at the back. Commemorative 50-year celebration volume of the life and work of Bhagavan Sri Ramana, comprised of over 75 writings by numerous notable Indian mystics and public figures, as well as such Westerners as C.G. Jung, William S. Spaulding, D. Fuchsberger, and Eleanor Pauline Noye. Color frontispiece portrait plate of Ramana. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of closed tears on the blank back panel. Clean, crisp, and bright. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Keiseisha, 1909. Green cloth hardcover with thread-tied binding. Used- Good condition. Book shows shelf wear. Light scuffing on the edges and corners. Small tear on the bottom right corner on the back cover. Slight creasing on the spine. Light pencil markings on pg. 2-8, 31, 173, 175-177. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968. Hardcover. Used- Very good condition. Book is clean and tight with some mild shelf wear. Dust jacket shows some minor damage and small tears at the edges. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books

Roxbury, MA: American Avatar, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Spine creased, covers rubbed with a few chips & edgewear, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Derived from letters written between 1958 through 1966, along with photos & poetry by Mel Lyman (1938-1978) seminal and controversial counterculture figure, musician, writer and founder of the Lyman Family aka Fort Hill Community, a family, cult and/or commune. Lyman played banjo and harmonica as a member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band starting in 1963. In 1966 Lyman founded the Fort Hill Community in Roxbury, Boston. His underground newspaper Avatar (published 1967-68), shocked the staid Bostonians at that time.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 269pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, original decorated endpapers, small light stain to front boards, boards square & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.