The Satanic Rituals by Lavey, Anton Szandor

Toronto: Samisdat Publishers [no date]. (Trade paperback) 160pp. Very good. Illustrations, photographs. Except for the thumb-soiled fore-edge, this is a nice copy of a scarce Nazi flying saucer book. (Arcane, Conspiracy Theories, Experimental Aircraft, Flying Saucers, Nazis, UFOs).

Gouveneur, NY: Brothers of the Book, 1898. First edition. Hardbound in nearly fine condition; Modest gift inscription on front end paper, "K. to J 12/25/'98." (the author's mother was Katherine and her brother was Jay).. Hand-numbered limited edition of 350 copies; Claude Bragdon's first book, a collection of his poems; Printed on handmade paper with edges untrimmed; Paper cover label apparently designed by Bragdon; Original prospectus, subscription form and return envelope laid in; 6" x 4.25"; 42 pages.

Norrkoping: Library of Love 86-901-027-4-4 [86-901-027-4-4] 1990. (Hardcover) 137pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black leatherette with gilt lettering. Illustrations, photographs. The spine is worn and chipped and the corners are lightly bumped. "After listening to the first lecture of the seminar on the Teachings of the Fire, held in Sweden from August 8-12, 1989, one of the participants asked the following question: 'How is it that such wise and necessary teachings were unknown for centuries, and then were suddenly revealed to the public?' Raul Amon, Teacher of the Fire, replied that we are living at a time when there is a great need for knowledge like that contained in the Teachings of the Fire, which can help reduce the amount of aggression in our surroundings". Time Period 1989. (Arcane, Arcane, Healing, Lecture, Meditation, New Age).

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1978, first printing. 8vo., color frontis+303pp., illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. Some foxing to edges of page block, wear at lower tips of covers and spine, mild fade to edge of cloth, otherwise very good, clean, tight in very good minus dust jacket with loss along the top edge. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Mason Brothers, 1853. 192 pages. Illustrated with in-text wood engravings. Binding is embossed brown cloth, with gilt lettering on front cover. Hiram Mattison (1811-1868) was a prominent Methodist minister in New York, who, in addion to his opposition to fraudulent psychics, was an active proponent of temperance and abolition of slavery. In this book he debunks his era's fad of "spirit-rapping" and other practices by which mediums or spiritualists claim to communicate with the dead. As Mattison states in the preface, spirit-rapping "is the grand climax of soothsaying, astrology, witchcraft, phrenology, mesmerism, clairvoyance, Psychology, Fourierism, Millerism, Mormonism, and all other superstitions, delusions, and isms that have ever been, or probably ever will be." The book is in about very good condition: clean and tight, with some minor edgewear and shallow chipping of cloth at head and foot of spine. Pages are moderately foxed. Previous owner's name… Read More

Toronto: Samisdat Publishers [no date]. (Trade paperback) 160pp. Very good. Illustrations, photographs. Except for the thumb-soiled fore-edge, this is a nice copy of a scarce Nazi flying saucer book. (Arcane, Conspiracy Theories, Experimental Aircraft, Flying Saucers, Nazis, UFOs).

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924 first American edition in this English translation, near fine, light rubbing to cloth, pencil to endpaper, top edge dusted red, dust jacket is unclipped but rubbed to joints and corners with some splitting along the folds and minor edge chipping to spine ends, 317pp, translated by Keene Wallis, dust jacket design by Gropper. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Gropper . 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Reading: Gedruckt fur Charles M’Williams, 1820. Hardcover. See Description. First American Edition. 12mo. 142p. With a dramatic woodcut frontispiece depicting the Anti-Christ as a seven headed dragon. Re-bound in quarter calf with marbled boards preserving the original calf spine. Title page shows age-toning, soiling and staining; a small darker spot of staining is present near the upper corner. The inside margin of the frontispiece is carefully restored with some spots of loss to the inner black border-line of the illustration. End papers are stained; notations in an early hand are scrawled on the front free end paper. Interior pages contain light age toning, scattered marginal foxing, soiling and wear. A German mystic named Christian Armbruster penned this apocalyptic work (first published in Germany in either 1813 or 1814). The author predicts the immanent end of days by comparing current events at that time – i.e. the rise of the Emperor Napoleon – to the prophecies in the Book of… Read More

Oceanside California: The Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. Fine but for sticker on front pastedown, with proclaimer's name scratched out. ( I think this actually enhances this copy )..

Norrkoping: Library of Love 86-901-027-4-4 [86-901-027-4-4] 1990. (Hardcover) 137pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black leatherette with gilt lettering. Illustrations, photographs. The spine is worn and chipped and the corners are lightly bumped. "After listening to the first lecture of the seminar on the Teachings of the Fire, held in Sweden from August 8-12, 1989, one of the participants asked the following question: 'How is it that such wise and necessary teachings were unknown for centuries, and then were suddenly revealed to the public?' Raul Amon, Teacher of the Fire, replied that we are living at a time when there is a great need for knowledge like that contained in the Teachings of the Fire, which can help reduce the amount of aggression in our surroundings". Time Period 1989. (Arcane, Arcane, Healing, Lecture, Meditation, New Age).