Mysticism & Spirituality

With a preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.London: Elkin Matthews. 1897. A rare work revealing "the magnitudes of the sun, moon, and other planets". First edition. 8vo. 225x145mm. pp. xiv, [2], 403 [1]. Blue paper covered boards, backed in white cloth. Paper label to spine. Joints cracked and tender but boards holding. Tears to spine and slight loss to label. Corners and edges a little worn and some marks and fading to boards. Pages uncut. Some toning to edges but otherwise internally in very good condition.

London: William Rider. 1914. If these stones could speak First edition. 8vo. 217x135mm. pp. xix, [ibl], 292. Coloured frontispiece and ten black and white plates. Original blue cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to extremities, slight fading to spine and a mark on the lower cover. Internally very good. A nice copy of this extensive and important study of the symbolism of precious stones. It examines the Hindu, Jewish, Chinese, Egyptian, Roman, Gnostic, and Christian lore of gems. The final section discusses the astrological connections of key gems, sign by sign. Ref.

London. 1934. Moon Trail and White Hawk. Messages from the Spirit World. An archive of manuscript and typed material relating to the Great Metropolitan Spiritualist Association (GMSA).1. Eleven typed transcripts of addresses and messages from the spirit world. These are from spirits known as Moon Trail and White Hawk. One was channelled through a Mrs Hambling and the others are, given the provenance, probably through Harold Jones himself as he was a well known medium. The earliest is dated July 13th 1930 and the latest January 1943. 2. Minute book of the Finsbury Park Church of Spirit Teaching.

von Dr Med. A. Freiherrn von Schrenck-Notzing aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing mit einer Einleitung von Professor Dr Eugen Bleuler.Berlin und Leipzig: Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co.. 1933. Rudi Schneider's own copy inscribed to him by the author's wife. First edition. Front free endpaper is inscribed, "Dem lieben Rudi, zu Weihnachten 1932. Gabriele Freifrau von Schrenck-Notzing". 8vo. 232x152mm. pp. viii, 170. With a frontispiece and five plates of black and white photographs, illustrations in the text. Black cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards.

Utica, N.Y. Published by M.J. Randolph. 1861-62. "It is of my death that first I wish to speak, and of what took place thereafter" First edition. 181x110mm. pp. [2], 268 [4pp adverts]. Brown cloth, blindstamped decoration to upper and lower covers and lettered in gilt to spine. Corners bumped and rubbed and some wear to edges and head and foot of spine. Joints a little tender but holding. Some soiling and marking to the edges but overall a very good copy of a book that is extremely rare in commerce, none appearing in the auction records.

with an Introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.London: Cassell and Company, Ltd.. 1918. Signed by Conan Doyle. First edition. 8vo. 204x130mm. pp. xxii, 270. Blue cloth, lettered in dark blue to upper cover and gilt to spine. Fading to spine and some marking to boards, corners a little worn. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped. Joints a little tender but otherwise a very good copy of this celebrated and important introduction to spiritualism which ties together various themes and loose ends from his four previous books on the subject. Signed "A.

Paris: Éditions Montaigne.. [1933]. Why do you exist? Inscribed by Richet First edition. 8vo. 188x120mm. pp. 292, [2], 16pp adverts. Original red wrappers. Fading to a small strip at the top edge of the upper wrapper. Some slight fading and creasing to spine. Pages uncut. A very good copy of Richet's last work, representing the final working out of his parapsychological ideas. Half title is inscribed "À Madame H. Salter, en respectueux sympathie Charles Richet".

London: The Psychological Press.. 1886. The life of a chancer First edition. 285x220mm. pp. [4], 196. Frontispiece portrait of William Eglinton, eight full page chromolithographs and thirty-three illustrations in the text. Original grey cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black and in gilt on the spine. Soiling to upper cover and spine. Head and foot of spine rubbed and corners a little worn.

London: Rider & Co.. 1937. In the rare dust jacket. First edition. Large 8vo. 230x145mm. pp.323 [1bl], 16pp adverts. With twelve illustrations. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Original dust jacket. Toning to spine and edges of jacket. Internally excellent. A near fine copy in the scarce dust jacket. Mary Neff (1877-1948) was born in Akron, Ohio where she became a teacher. She joined the Theosophical Society in 1908 and three years later went to work for the Theosophical Publishing House at Adyar where she was also the private secretary to Charles Leadbeater.

London: The Psychic Press and Bookshop.. n.d. [1927]. "Love, not fear, must reign in each heart". First edition. Published at the same time as the George H. Doran edition in blue cloth. 186x125mm. pp. 216 [1, 3pp adverts]. Publisher's pale blue wrappers. Spine toned and some soiling to wrappers. Slight chipping to, and small tears to joints at head and foot of spine. A little foxed and browned but otherwise a very good copy. Pheneas was a communicating entity who became the principal spirit guide of Conan Doyle and his family.

or, reasons to prove their existence: in opposition to a lecture, delivered by the Rev. N.T.Heineken, in the Unitarian Chapel, Bradford.London: Printed for the author.. 1825. A counterblast to a "disgusting heterodoxy". Second edition. Enlarged and Corrected. 12mo in 6s. 176x105mm. pp. [4], x, [11-13], 14-176. Blue half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine decorated in gilt. Label in the second compartment is missing. Rubbing to joints, edges and head and foot of spine. Corners worn. The last thirty leaves have water staining to the bottom edge affecting only the margin and not the text.

Founded on Their Own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents Collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren.London: George Redway.. 1887. A great cloud of unknowing First edition. 8vo. 191x125mm. pp. viii, 446. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover decorated with a red border and with gilt insignia. Spine lettered in gilt and decorated in red. Some soiling and an old label mark to spine and creasing to lower cover. Corners a little rubbed and head and foot of spine. Some light foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Arthur Waite was a member of the Societa Rosicruciana in Anglia.

A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens on the Earth for the Past Twenty-Four Thousand Years, together with a Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; the Creation of Planets; the Creation of Man; the Unseen Worlds; the Labor and Glory of Gods and Goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; with the New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With revelations from the second resurrection, formed in words in the thirty-third year of the Kosmon era.New York and London: OAHSPE Publishing Association.. 1882. the sum of corporeal and spiritual knowledge First edition.

London: Thomas Bosworth. 1853. Presentation copy First UK edition, published the same year as the first US edition. 8vo. 170x105mm. pp. xxxii, 93 [1], [2], 14pp adverts. Publisher's brown cloth (binder's ticket - Westley's - on rear pastedown), decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Spine has a paper label with the title and author written in pencil. Presentation copy from publisher, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper "with the publisher's compliments". Front pastedown has bookplate of Alan Gauld and T.J. Ring.

with an introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Beverley: Wright and Hoggard.. [1917]. A rare pamphlet on Christian-spiritualist ecumenism First edition. 184x124mm. pp. 27 [1bl]. Original printed wrappers. It has been folded in half (vertically) and has a crease running along the centre but otherwise in very good condition. This little pamphlet reproduces a lecture given by The Reverend Fielding-Ould to the London Spiritualist Alliance on March 22nd 1917. The introduction by Conan Doyle is a letter to Fielding-Ould praising the lecture.

Preface de Camille Saint-Saens.Paris: Librairie C. Reinwald.. 1897. Arthur Waite's copy First edition. 8vo. 181x115mm. pp. [4], viii, [2], 317 [1bl]. With drawings by A Collombar. Bound with DAREL, Th. De la Spiritualisation De L'être, Aperçus Philosophiques. Paris: Chamuel. 1898. pp. 334 [2]. Inscribed on the half title "a Monsieur Dawson Rogers. Hommage respecteuse de l'auteur". Edmund Dawson Rogers was a journalist and spiritualist from Norfolk and one of the founders of the British National Association of Spiritualists and the Society for Psychical Research. Rare, Worldcat locating only six copies. Bound in red cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

London: The Bodley Head.. 1974.First UK edition, first printing. 215x15mm. pp. [10], 11-412. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dust jacket. Front free endpaper has gift inscription.

New York: The Viking Press. 1961.First edition. 8vo. 202x135mm. pp [6], 152. Quarter cream cloth, blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in blue. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to top edge of jacket and chipping to head of spine and three small closed tears to the jacket but otherwise in excellent condition and near fine internally. A very good copy of Matthiessen's third novel which examines the fragility of goodness in the face of all-encompassing evil.

London: Secker & Warburg. 1972.Wondering what the hell's going on. First UK edition. 197x125mm. pp. 218. Publisher's blue cloth with slight damage to spine. Original illustrated pop art dustjacket designed by Paul May in the manner of Roy Lichtenstein. Some slight rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, marking to the lower cover and creasing to the spine. Internally in excellent condition throughout. A rare book and an even rarer dustjacket. Crews learnt karate in order to write this book - a typically immersive act. But the book is only partly about karate.

Traunesian Woods and Garden Grove: Marianne Francis. 1965- 1966. Telethought channelling Four typescripts by Marianna Francis. 1. 2nd May 1965. Garden Grove. "From Divine realms of spiritual manifestation I greet you". Two leaves typed on recto only. 2. 29 Aug. 1965. Traunesian Woods. "Korton: Greetings in the Light of our Radiant One". One leaf typed on recto only.3. 30 April 1966. Traunesian Woods. "Greetings, our brothers, our sisters of Earth". Five leaves typed on recto only.4. June 25, 1966. Traunesian Woods. "What is Truth? A lecture given by a Brother from Mars".

London. Frederick Muller: 1945.8vo, 112pp, illustrated throughout with 4 colour lithographs by Michael Ayrton. Near-fine text block in very good condition. Illustrated cloth with some light shelf-wear and discolouration to extremeties.  A selection of memento-mori verse selected by Phoebe Pool and issued as part of the 'New Excursions into English Poetry' series. With the pen inscription of F.