Search Results: esoteric/occult from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/good +. Teal cloth with blue gilt lettering on spine, and blue gilt illustration of astrological signs on cover. Price clipped dust jacket has a price sticker on the bottom of flap. Dust jacket has age toning. Contents include basic astrology and more indepth materials for interpreting aspects. Includes glossary and cross index of aspects. 461 pp. Later Printing.

Alchemical Guild. Limited. Boards. New. Red and white boards, spine white with red lettering. Tight unread copy. Limited edition of five copies, this is copy number 2. Illustrated with photographs and art by very artists. 434pp.

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1923. First Edition. Boards with 1/4 cloth. Good. 8 3/4 x 5.5 inches (22 x 14 cm), yellow boards with brown spine, some fading on front cover, black lettering on spine, foxing on front flyleaf. Verso of half title page has works by A. L. Cleather pasted down, photo of Blavatsky on frontispiece, plus additional photos in text. Title page has stamped: 'donated by H.P. B. Library Victoria, B.C., Canada. Page ix has postscript pasted in.Pencil handwriting below the paste down. Highlighting on the page, another page has writing in read. Rear endpaper has a pink paste down from the Oriental Bookstore. 30 page addendum, a posthumous attack on H.P. B. by Basil Crump. 76 pp.

London: Trubner & Company, 1872. First Edition. Cloth. Very good.. 7 x 4 3/4inches (18 x 12 cm), reddish brown pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind stamp,wear to top and bottom of spine and corners. Bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper verso. 119 pp.

Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1919. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4" stapled pale peach wraps. 23, [1] pages. Faint soiling and minor rippling to the wraps, title page a bit age-toned, but a tight clean copy, near fine. Noted theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, and orator, Besant was also a passionate advocate for Indian home rule. This appears to be the first separate printing of "Memory," reprinted from LUCIFER, VOL. V. (1889), an elusive theosophical magazine which ran from 1888-1897, for which OCLC records only two institutional holdings. This pamphlet is only slightly less scarce, with OCLC locating four copies; by contrast, Besant's 1935 "Memory and its Nature," in which she expands upon the thoughts she expresses here, is held by at least 37 institutions.

St. Albans: D. W. Findlay, 1975. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. 7.5 x 9 3/4 inches (19 x 24 cm). Red cloth with gold lettering on front and spine, pictorial dust jacket with pictures of magic books on front, black and white printing on front and spine. Limited edition # 146/500. vii-xii, 1-280 pp. Comprehensive catalogue of esoteric and occult books.

London: E.W. Allen, 1880. First Edition. Cloth. Good +. Green embossed cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, wear to extremities, front endpaper has a paste in entitled," the Psychic Library" with blank rows and columns. Laid in is a pink slip 4 x 5.5 inches (10 x 14 cm), slip entitled, "A New Magazine", dated October, 1881. A description of a children's magazine called "Little Hearts and Little Hands". This is a call for subscriptions from John Farmer, editor and JJ Morse, business manager. Front free endpaper has holes and rips, half title page has former owner's signature in ink. 152 pp. First edition.

New York: Alberta Publishing Company, 1920. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Poor. 5x 7 3/4 inches (12.5 x 11.5 cm), dark blue boards with bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has back panel and spine but large rips in front with front flap laid in. This book is by the spirit of Thomas Carlyle as told through William J. Bryan. 236 pp.

Burlington, MA: Pride Publications Inc, 1992. First Edition. Wrap. Very Good. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (21 x 13 cm), Cream color stapled wrap with illustration of a witch trial. Contents include several men and women who have been accused of witchcraft. 62 pp.

New York: Ives Washburn, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Siegel. Black cloth, orange lettering on front and spine. Top page edges red, deckled edges. 379 pp. including index. Black and white illustrations throughout. OCLC shows only two copies of the American first edition, one in Canada and one in the British Museum.