Weirdiana

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.

London: Dow & Lester.. [1907]. Early twentieth century fun with smudgy signatures. 163x95mm. Unpaginated. Frontispiece, title page and 46 leaves. 29 of the leaves have been written on. The idea of The Ghost of my Friends is one asks one's friends to write their signature in fountain pen ink along a crease that runs vertically in the middle of the leaf.

Being a translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, with Prolegomena, Commentaries, and Notes.London and Benares: The Theosophical Publishing Society.. 1906. "I found greater pleasure in the spiritual considerations which insistently imposed themselves upon my mind". First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. 230x140mm. pp. xvi, 481 [1]; xi, [i], 403 [1]; xii, 371 [1bl], [7, 1bl, adverts]. Loosely inserted leaf of handwritten notes. Beige cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Some soiling and rubbing and the head and foot of spines are bumped and rubbed. Spines darkened and that of volume III is soiled.

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.

London: Dow & Lester. n.d. [1909]. How to see a ghost 184x117mm. pp. [2], 23. 25 colour plates. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in black and illustrated with a silhouette of a skeleton (one of the images from the book). Some soiling to the boards and slight rubbing to the corners and head and foot of spine. Internally very good but with some offsetting from the images. Rare, only one copy (Ricky Jay's) appearing in the auction records. It seems to have been first published in New York in 1908 with a London edition issued in 1909 and then again 1915.

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.

with 10 plates in colour and 366 illustrations in the text.London: George G. Harrap & Company. 1931. The iconography of occultism First edition. 278x215mm. pp. 394 [2]. Illustrated throughout in the text and with the ten colour plates called for. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Original illustrated dustjacket.

being facts, records, and traditions Relating to Dreams, Omens, Miraculous Occurrences, Apparitions, Wraiths, Warnings, Second-sight, Witchcraft, Necromancy, etc.London: Henry S. King and Co.. 1875. On an eternal supernatural and supersensuous, life lies the basis of all pity and mercy and sympathy among men. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 188x125mm. pp. ix [v], 291 [1]; [6], 241 [1bl], 36pp adverts. Publisher's brown cloth illustrated on the upper cover with a sunburst and three hands emerging from the clouds with, on the lower cover, a strange creature which seems to be a cross between a wasp and a bat.

Keswick, Cumberland G.P.Abraham. 1906. Aleister Crowley's copy with his annotations. First edition. 8vo. 228x150mm. pp. xxi [i], 394, [4pp adverts]. Twenty nine black and white photographs. Nine full page line maps and diagrams and ten drawings in the text. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Rubbing to edges, head and foot of spine bumped and rubbed. Some marking to boards. Internally very good with only some very slight foxing to the edges. One of the blank preliminaries has the pencil inscription "Aleister Crowley 1906. Bought at the request of Oscar Eckenstein".

France n.p.. c1812. An extensive manuscript on French Freemasonry An extensive and detailed French masonic manuscript. 340x215mm. pp. 220. Red-orange morocco, backed in deep red morocco. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners and edges worn. Internally very good, written in a clear and legible hand. A brief introduction explains that the Grand Orient of France was founded in 1772 out an older Grand Chapter which traced its origins to 1721. This makes the Grand Orient the oldest Freemasonry order in Continental Europe.

Wherein, among other things, the sadducism of these times, in denying spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances, and evidences, is fully confuted: Epicurus his cause, discussed, and the jugling and false dealing, lately used, to bring him, and atheism, into credit, clearly discovered: the use and necessity of ancient learning, against the innovating humour, all along proved, and asserted.London: Printed for T. Garthwait.. 1668. "Unadvised belief". First edition. 8vo. 175x110mm. pp. [16], 316, [4]. Complete with imprimatur and errata leaves. Contemporary calf, boards ruled and decorated in blind. 35mm split to upper joint and some slight cracking.

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.

oder getreuer und christlicher Unterricht für Jedermann, enthaltend, wunderbare und probmässige Mittel und Künste sowohl für die Menschen als das Vieh.Ephrata, PA. J[oseph] B[auman].. 1828. Pow-wow Second edition. 158x95mm. 8vo in 4s. pp. 94. Marbled paper covered boards, backed in brown morocco. Edges worn and rubbing to spine and head and foot of spine chipped. Foxed and browned with the occasional marking but overall a very good copy of the second edition (the first appearing in 1820).

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.

London: Printed by the Co-operative Printing Society Limited. 1913. What is there to believe, but in Self? First edition. Folio. 390x260mm. pp. [4], 59 [1]. Illustrated with 18 full plate prints and with numerous images in the text. Black cloth lettered in white on upper cover. Some marking and rubbing to boards and joints. Extremities bumped and rubbed. Internally very good with only the occasional spotting and toning. A nice copy of Spare's extraordinary work of art, magic, the occult, sexuality, religion and the use of sigils.

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.

Including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy, Sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy.Privately Printed. 1898. A rare limited edition First edition. Large 8vo. 252x185mm. pp. xvi, 297 [1]. Frontispiece and nine plates printed on blue and pink paper. Original black buckram, repair to head and foot of spine. Boards and spine rubbed and scuffed and with some marking and a scratch on the lower cover. Internally a little toned at the edges, and there is some slight creasing and chipping to edges of front free endpaper but overall in very good condition. Front paste down has the bookplate of A.R.

London: William Rider. 1914. The Astral Tramp Second edition. 8vo. 184x122mm. pp. xiii [1bl], 356, [4pp publisher's adverts]. Original green cloth decorated with the image of a temple printed in white and then, in blind a sacrificial tripod and bowl. Title and author stamped in blind to upper cover and in gilt to spine where the cover design is repeated in white and gilt. Corners a little rubbed and bumped. Some small tears to head and foot of spine.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1914.the first appearance of a new Dracula storyFirst edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. [8], 200. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in blind on upper cover. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated dustjacket in a later state with the price of 1/3net replaced with 2/- but in all other regards the jacket is the same as that of the first impression with its chilling illustration by Handforth. There is a split to the cloth at the joint with the lower cover and some fading to spine.

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831.Third edition published with the first illustration of the Dr Frankenstein's monsterThird edition, published as volume IX of Standard Novels series issued with the first part of The Ghost-Seer. 162x100mm. pp. xii, 202; [2], 163 [5]. Frontispiece and illustrated additional title page. Black half calf, marbled paper covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Housed in a green cloth covered dropback box. Rubbing to boards and scuffing to head and foot of spine. Corners bumped. Internally very good but with some foxing and slight soiling.

New York: E.P.Dutton & Company. 1923.First US edition in the scarce dustjacketFirst US edition. 8vo. 185x125mm. pp. [8], 368. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper cover and spine. Original dustjacket. Repaired closed tear to fold of dust jacket at spine and upper cover and small tears at the fold with the flap on the lower cover.

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: Macmillan & Co, Limited. 1911-13.Edward Clodd's copy of The Golden Bough. Presentation copies with a letter from Frazer to Clodd.Presentation copy to Edward Clodd. Third edition. Eleven volumes, without the Bibliography and General Index, but with a copy of volume III of the 1924 The Belief in Immortality with an ALS from Frazer to Edward Clodd. Original publisher's green cloth (although volumes 5-8 are in blue cloth). Upper cover is decorated with a mistletoe design in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt.

London: Henry Colburn.. 1827. Science fiction, feminism and reanimation. The first appearance of the Mummy. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. (185x113mm). pp. viii, 300; [ii], 348; [ii], 303 [1, publisher's adverts]. Bound without half-titles in volumes II and III (volume I was issued without a half-title). Tan half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Spine with green morocco label, lettered in gilt. Some repairs and strengthening to joints, head and foot of spines and corners. Slight scuffing to spines and rubbing to boards.