EXPERIMENTUM. Potens Magna in Occult Philosophy. Compiled and Scribed by Frederick Hockley. Bound with A Brief Essay Concerning Experimentum by Dan Harms. Transcript & Translation of the Text Prepared & Annotated by Dan Harms.
HOCKLEY, Frederick.

Quarto, original publisher's half blue sheepskin leather over marbled paper boards, the spine panel titled and decorated in gilt. Housed in cloth slipcase edged with same marbled paper used for the boards with a row of gilt decoration on either side, felt lined. Issued in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 55. 33pp of full colour plates reproducing Hockley's lavishly illustrated manuscript, plus 37pp of text by Dan Harms who gives a brief Introduction, a full transcript of the manuscript (Hockley's calligraphy looks beautiful, but can be hard to read), plus commentary and a bibliography. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. Accompanying the book is a small folder, [6] pp, self wrappers, sewn with red ribbon on spine, containing a higher quality reproduction of one of the talismans from the MS embellished with gold, silver and copper metallic dies, along with the transcribed text and comment on the talisman. Who knows if it was Hockley's intent but the metallic inks add another dimension to the image. The paths with wording appear to float above the background. Such subtle visual effects were frequently utilised in magical work. These folders were produced in a very small number and are much rarer then the book itself. ¶ A facsimile reproduction of an original Hockley manuscript housed in the Harry Price collection, Senate House Library, University of London. Collects a number of rituals, giving some a powerful visual form, akin to a Mandala. In the final ritual, a perilous invocation of Oberion, Hockley records the appearance of the spirit in a grotesque form - reminiscent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream". This shows Hockley to be an occult artist of a status hitherto unrealised in publications of his work. One wonders if the references to the ritual use of cannabis and opium in Experimentum signal tools that Hockley used. There are magical procedures for causing the destruction of enemies, routing out thievery, the magical protection of places and buildings, magical fascination, fulfilling sexual desire and a perilous invocation of the spirit Oberion. There is a strong folkish element hand in hand with complex ritual. Hockley gives some spells a striking visual forms. Throughout he employs calligraphic hands, rather than his usual handwriting, making this a visually impressive volume. The original manuscript had clearly, at some point, been stored in damp conditions. There is discolouration, show through and offsetting. This has all been reproduced in facsimile. As the pages are printed Giclée process, not as photos of a book, but so it appears that you actually hold an old bound manuscript. The Transcript and Commentary is given in a readably calligraphic hand sympathetic with Hockley's styles. A tinted paper is used, so the latter section does not visually jar with the appearance of age of the facsimile section. Dan Harms painstakingly searches out Hockley's sources and this throws light upon that early 19th Century British occult milieu, the Society of the Mecurii, concerning whom there is considerable interest.

APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT.
GREY, Peter.

"Of the Crows" Edition. Octavo, original rough-grained black linen cloth titled in white on spine panel and decorated with designs of crows in white on front & rear covers. 182 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. 1,000 hand-numbered copies printed. Originally issued sans dust jacket, as are all Scarlet Imprint titles, it was found that the white chalk design of the doves was subject to almost immediate wear, and a dust jacket was ordered and issued on some copies as a means of protecting the covers. Our copies all have a touch of chipping to the white chalk design - this is inevitable - but are copies which have the supplied dust jacket which reproduces the cover design, and can be considered to be fine in dust jacket, as the binding design is utterly perishable. ¶ Apocalyptic Witchcraft gives a compelling and profound account of the Sabbat and Wild Hunt as living experiences. Dream, lunar and, critically, menstrual magic are explored as a path to this knowledge. The wolf, the Devil, and the Goddess of witchcraft are then encountered in a landscape that ultimately reveals the witch to her or himself. These are not separate threads, but arise from a deep mythic structure and are woven together into a single unifying vision. Alternating between polemic, poetic and ecstatic prose, an harmonious course is revealed in a sequence of elegant stratagems. The book is threaded together with a cycle of hymns to Inanna, pearls on the tapestry of night. Seemingly disparate aspects are joined into a vision which is neither afraid of blessing nor curse. This is a daring undertaking, born from both urgency and need. It offers a renewed sense of purpose and meaning for a witchcraft that has seen many of its treasured ideas about itself destroyed. An apocalyptic age demands an Apocalyptic Witchcraft, and this is a book which is offered up to revolutionise the body of the craft, a way out of the dark impasse. Tradition is not static, it flows, and this work pours forth a vision for the future. Founded in pilgrimage and ritual, encountered in dreams and gleaned from the conversations of both doves and crows, a remarkable narrative unfolds. Its wings span from pre-history, through the witch-panic and it emerges fully fledged into our present moment of crisis. It offers a witchcraft for our time. Apocalyptic Witchcraft is a controversial, luminous text. A shuddering paroxysm of eternal renewal beneath the serpent moon. It is neither a how-to book, nor a history, rather it is a magical vision of the Art in its entirety. Peter Grey is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. His previous work The Red Goddess has become the standard work (if there can be such a thing) on Babalon. Apocalyptic Witchcraft represents his mature understanding of these mysteries, working in conjunction with Lover and accomplice Alkistis Dimech. This is his second book length work and the first title devoted to witchcraft.

First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel, brown coated endpapers. 195 pp. Light browning to text, small sticker mark on front free endpaper, cloth very slightly bubbled, lightly marked and with a very faint cup ring on front panel; a very good copy. Rare. ¶ Fantasy and folklore, of a race of aquatic people known as the "Fiskmanne", who inhabit the seas between Norway and Scotland.

PICATRIX (GHAYAT AL-HAKIM). The Goal of the Wise. Translated from the Arabic by Hashem Atallah and Geylan Holmquest. Edited by William Kiesel. In Two Volumes. The Deluxe Edition, in Full Black Leather.
PICATRIX. ATALLAH, Hashem and Geylan Holmquest [translators]. KIESEL, William [editor].

First Editions. Two volumes. Octavo, original black leather bindings, gilt titles to upper covers, titled within a decorative device in gilt on spine panels, raised bands on spines, marbled endpapers, black silk ribbon bookmarks. 173 + 300 pp. The first edition to be translated directly from the Arabic into English. 500 copies of the leatherbound edition of volume 2 were issued, but the number of copies of the deluxe edition of the first volume, issued six years earlier, were much fewer. The first volume is unnumbered and signed by the editor on the Acknowledgments leaf, the second volume is number 301 of 500 hand numbered copies. Set in Book Antiqua and each volume hand bound by Ars Obscura bindery. A fine set. ¶ Picatrix is the name used today, and historically in Christian Europe, for a grimoire originally written in Arabic titled Gayat al-Hakim, which most scholars assume was written in the middle of the 11th century, though a supported argument for composition in the first half of the 10th century has been made. The Arabic title has been translated as "The Aim of the Sage" or "The Goal of The Wise". The original Arabic work was translated into Spanish and then into Latin during the 13th century. The name "Picatrix" is also sometimes used to refer to the author. Picatrix is a composite work that synthesizes older works on magic and astrology. One of the most influential interpretations suggests it is to be regarded as a "handbook of talismanic magic". Another researcher summarizes it as "the most thorough exposition of celestial magic in Arabic", indicating the sources for the work as "Arabic texts on Hermeticism, Sabianism, Ismailism, astrology, alchemy and magic produced in the Near East in the ninth and tenth centuries A.D." Planetary and Zodiacal magic and full instructions for invoking the related spirits are provided along with all the requisite materials needed; stones, plants, inks, colors, incenses, talismans and the invocations. In addition to this are many anecdotes relating to Arabic and pre-Islamic magical lore, including the writings of Bin Wahshija, the Nabataeans, Sabians, Chaldeans and Assyrians. Of particular note is the magical plant and mineral lore from the Nabataean Agriculture, which portray ancient practices of pagan Iraq. All earlier English editions of this work were translated from either the Latin or the Spanish translations of the Arabic, this is the first translation directly from the Arabic and as such could be considered to be the best English-language edition extant.

THE MAGIC SEAL OF DR. JOHN DEE. THE SIGILUM DEL AEMETH.
CAMPBELL, Colin. [DEE, John].

First edition. Small quarto, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine, gilt sigils on front & rear covers. 155 pp, Index. Color frontispiece and one colour plate, various b&w illustrations and tables in text. 777 hand-numbered copies printed. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Out of print, and quite scarce. ¶ The Magic Seal of John Dee comprises a detailed examination of the history and structure of the Sigillum Dei Aemeth of the Elizabethan scholar and Magus, Dr. John Dee, as well as a study of its use in the practice of ritual magic. The appendixes include a new transcription and translation of Dee's Liber Mysteriorum Secundus, and an important new translation of the section of the famous grimoire, The Sworn Book of Honorius, that gives details of what is clearly a precursor of the Sigillum Dei. From the standpoint of a practicing magician, the work has two clear aims: "to demonstrate the importance of the pattern established by Dee's Sigillum Dei as opposed to its implementation, and to bring the Sigillum Dei out of the limited confines of the Enochian temple and into its role as a powerful magickal system in its own right. The recognition of the patterns established in the construction of the Sigillum Dei allow us to view the seal in a new light, not as a static framework decided once and for all hundreds of years ago in the study of a Rennaissance magician, but as one that can be reconstituted in the light of modern interpretation. Furthermore, the seal is, in essence, a system of evocation - the very same method of communication used by Dee & Kelley in its reception. This book explains the nature and method of this approach and how the practicing magician is able to use the Sigillum Dei in the manner in which it was truly intended - as a powerful system of planetary magick." The author, Colin D. Campbell, is a long-term student and teacher of the Thelemic, Kabbalistic, and Enochian magickal systems.

Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine. 250 copies of the hardcover edition were published, but this copy is out of series (or X-Series) with a large "X" across the limitation statement on the copyright page. Unlike the standard edition, this copy has no gilt stamping on the upper cover. Only a very few copies were issued as such. 224 pp. Tiny bump to the front board at lower front corner, otherwise a f fine copy without dust jacket as issued. ¶ This second volume of the Witchcraft in the British Isles series examines the Craft sorcery and folklore of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset. Rich in folklore and folk traditions, the West Country has always had an aura of mystery and magic, and this is reflected in its past and the various races and their spiritual beliefs who have occupied it down the centuries.

CROSSED KEYS. Being a Chimeric Binding of Both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III. THE DELUXE EDITION OF 55 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES, BOUND IN FULL BLACK GOAT AND HOUSED IN A LEATHER SATCHEL.
CECCHETELLI, Michael (translator and commentator). With additional notes by Peter Grey. Edited by Alkistis Dimech.

First edition. Small octavo, beautifully bound in original full black textured goat leather with embossed gold dragon device on front panel, the spines with raised bands titled and with the "Crossed Keys" design in gilt, all edges gilt, gold & black marbled endpapers, yellow silk ribbon bookmark. Housed in a yellow leather satchel, with black silk ribbon ties, the flap has been blocked with the black 'Crossed Keys" device. 240 pp. The 'Sable et d'Or' fine bound edition limited to just 55 hand-numbered copies. A fine copy, as new, without dust jacket as issued. This book sold out on the very first day that it was advertised for sale from the publishers. ¶ Crossed keys is a chimeric binding of both The Black Dragon and the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III in a fresh translation by grimoire magician Michael Cecchetelli. They are complementary grimoires, spanning the very earliest example of the genre to the late bibliotheque bleue period. Together they comprise a wealth of spells, spirits, lore, talismans and psalm magic, with their head in the highest heavens and their feet in the deepest hells. This is the first time they have been bound into one volume. Extensively footnoted, the seals corrected, re-drawn and restored, with excerpts and workings from the translator's magical record, this is a well armed and practical text which throws light on the Grimorium Verum, Red Dragon and Grand Grimoire. It is a vigorous text, designed to be put to use. The Black Dragon draws heavily on the 1760 (1810) Grimoire of Honorius, which is significantly different to the 1670 edition and the earlier 13th century Sworn Book of Honorius (Liber Juratus) which is an ancestor in title alone. The spirits referenced are therefore those we find in the Grimorium Verum and the seals have been corrected in line with the research of Jake Stratton-Kent, as presented in The True Grimoire (Scarlet Imprint 2009). The original seals are reproduced for comparison. In common with many of the bibliotheque bleue texts, the Black Dragon is a pastiche, but one which is clearly more than the sum of its parts. The illuminating preface to the text is not found in any other grimoire sources and evinces that this was the compiled book of a working magician drawing on the available material of the day. The operating system bears similarities with that of the Red Dragon but the cleft stick is replaced with the stang. Yet this is no simple treasure hunting manual. The magician is promised the power to subjugate all the infernal forces - quite a formidable boast. We find many other elements of cunning craft in these pages including the toad bone, black cat bone, horse secrets and traditional spells for good and ill. The black hen and main de gloire are present and there is a notable use of an unusual form of the magic mirror. It is a fascinating collection of miscellany which though seeming late, cut-up and corrupt has benefited from a fresh translation to be revealed as a text in and of itself. In contrast, The Enchiridion of Pope Leo III is an early grimoire and a work of nominally Christian magic. Legend suggests that it was presented by Pope Leo III to Charlemagne and was responsible for his worldly success. A suitably disputed date of 1523 is given to its production. The Enchiridion is referred to repeatedly in the Black Dragon and elsewhere in the grimoire tradition where the penitential psalms are required. It is important for us to understand the mindset of the Enchiridion if we are to understand the grimoires. This text was much in vogue in the court of Louis XIV and the circle of Madame de Montespan in the affair of the poisons. It continues to circulate in the French speaking world today, which speaks of its enduring virtue. Through the use of talismans, psalms, orisons and efficacious charms the reader is able to triumph over a multitude of ills. This is the magic of the Old Religion of Europe, that is, Catholicism. Though the more diabolically inclined of our readers may be righteously appalled at the pious nature of the language, this is an important part of our magical heritage. The methods employed are those of Paganism, and the liturgical approach suggests creative uses of our own holy texts rather than being yoked to those of Christianity. In illicit combination with the Black Dragon, we have delivered up a bastard with papal blood in its veins, which promises to place in your hands the keys to both heaven and hell. Michael Cecchetelli has led a very eclectic life, serving in the army as a combat engineer, working as a restauranteur, incarcerated as a federal prisoner, and being a lifelong student and practitioner of the magickal arts.

SCOTTISH WITCHES AND WARLOCKS. Deluxe hardcover edition, limited to 200 copies.
HOWARD, Michael

Octavo, original red cloth. 200 copies only printed. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. ¶ The third volume of the Witchcraft in the British Isles series. In the village of at Cullen in Forfarshire, an arrest warrant was served in January 1657 for one Margaret Philp, accused of practicing witchcraft. Her servant, Isobel Imblaugh, testified she had seen her mistress have dealings with a spirit taking the form of a talking hare. Imblaugh said she had seen Philp put out a bannock, a jug of beer and a piece of meat for the sprite, and the next morning all was gone. On another occasion the spirit-hare allegedly entered the house through an open window and drank beer left out for it in a bowl. Far from an isolated account, magical traffic with such spirits was well-documented into the 19th century, when Highlanders left offerings of milk at prehistoric burial mounds and standing stones for the faeries known as brownies. Magical intercourse with fairies was but a small part of Scottish witchcraft belief, which also held that witches stole milk from their neighbor's cows, raised storms to drown those at sea they disliked, produced wasting diseases to make their enemies fall ill or die, keep a baby inside its mother's womb beyond her normal term, and transform themselves into animal forms so they could roam the countryside causing mischief and mayhem. Scottish Witches and Warlocks examines the folk beliefs and magical practices of early modern Scotland, constellated especially around witchcraft. Treating matters of spirit-conjuring, herb-magic, and the Diabolical pact itself, it includes accounts of such peculiar personages as Isobel Gowdie, the Aberdeen Witches, Dr. John Fian and the North Berwick coven, Sir Robert Gordon of Gourdeston, and the Witches of Auldearn. Containing a number of illustrations, it is the third book in Michael Howard's Witchcraft in the British Isles series.

SCOTTISH WITCHES AND WARLOCKS. Paperbound edition.
HOWARD, Michael.

Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. A fine copy in colour pictorial wrappers, without dust jacket as issued. ¶ The third volume of the Witchcraft in the British Isles series. In the village of at Cullen in Forfarshire, an arrest warrant was served in January 1657 for one Margaret Philp, accused of practicing witchcraft. Her servant, Isobel Imblaugh, testified she had seen her mistress have dealings with a spirit taking the form of a talking hare. Imblaugh said she had seen Philp put out a bannock, a jug of beer and a piece of meat for the sprite, and the next morning all was gone. On another occasion the spirit-hare allegedly entered the house through an open window and drank beer left out for it in a bowl. Far from an isolated account, magical traffic with such spirits was well-documented into the 19th century, when Highlanders left offerings of milk at prehistoric burial mounds and standing stones for the faeries known as brownies. Magical intercourse with fairies was but a small part of Scottish witchcraft belief, which also held that witches stole milk from their neighbor's cows, raised storms to drown those at sea they disliked, produced wasting diseases to make their enemies fall ill or die, keep a baby inside its mother's womb beyond her normal term, and transform themselves into animal forms so they could roam the countryside causing mischief and mayhem. Scottish Witches and Warlocks examines the folk beliefs and magical practices of early modern Scotland, constellated especially around witchcraft. Treating matters of spirit-conjuring, herb-magic, and the Diabolical pact itself, it includes accounts of such peculiar personages as Isobel Gowdie, the Aberdeen Witches, Dr. John Fian and the North Berwick coven, Sir Robert Gordon of Gourdeston, and the Witches of Auldearn. Containing a number of illustrations, it is the third book in Michael Howard's Witchcraft in the British Isles series.

Octavo, original blue decorative cloth designed in black and gilt. Floral end papers. 323 pp. Frontispiece & several illustrations. A bright, attractive copy, nearly fine. ¶ Lost Race novel: the discovery of a city of living Mayans in the Yucatan.

Octavo, original orange cloth titled & bordered in black. 255 pp. Foxing to page edges, cloth dusty, spine panel tanned and somewhat spotted; a good to very good copy. ¶ Science fiction novel. Futurity, death rays, robots, scientifically created humans, and an unknown underground world.

Octavo, original dark green cloth titled and decorated in gilt, decorated endpapers. 378 pp. Frontispiece. Formerly, Stuart Teitler's copy, with his bookplate and signature on the front paste-down. Light corner wear, a very good copy. ¶ Historical novel of life in Mexico before the consolidation of the Aztec Empire.

Octavo, original brown cloth titled in black on spine panel. 280 pp. Browning to first & last leaves, small mark to cloth on front panel; a very good clean copy. ¶ Prehistoric novel. Reissued in the 1940's under the author's real name, the first edition is rare.

First edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown clothtitled in gilt on spine, titled in gilt and black and designed in white and red on front panel. 377 + [3] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard and three additional full-page plates. Minor rubbing to the decorations on front panel, a very good, bright copy of a very attractive book. ¶ Psychic, mysticism.

Octavo, original red cloth lettered in gilt. Frontispiece & five additional full-page plates. Tidemark to fore-edges of text block, a bit shaken, small stain to lower edge of front panel and some dust-soiling to the cloth; a good sound copy. ¶ Lost Race novel. Modern adventurers pass through a narrow defile in the Andes, previously blocked by a voracious species of army ants. They reach a splendid city populated by the heirs of the Incas and Spanish conquerors. A fast-moving romance of revenge and heroic adventure. Outstanding.

IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS: A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant and the Brig Britannia and of The Adventures of His Children and Friends in His Discovery and Rescue. Illustrated with One Hundred and Seventy Engravings.
VERNE, Jules.

Large octavo, original green cloth decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. Heavily illustrated throughout. The first American edition, and the first edition in English of Verne's fifth book, originally published in France in 1867 as LES ENFANTS DU CAPTAINE GRANT. Neat, clean repairs to the inner hinges, general very light wear to the corners and spine tips; a very nice copy, very good or better. Issued in several colours of cloth, both with and without gilt edges; this is certainly a preferred binding. ¶ Fantastic adventure novel. The contents of a shark's stomach contain a bottle containing notes written in several languages, which together reveal the partial whereabouts of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship The Britannia was lost over two years prior. The latitude of his location is known but not the longitude, and so a group of searchers goes and traces the 37th parallel across the southern hemisphere. The first edition contains all three parts of the tale, it was later republished - usually separately - under the titles VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD: South America / Australia / New Zealand or as THE MYSTERIOUS DOCUMENT / ON THE TRACK and AMONG THE CANNIBALS. The complete work as issued here was not published in the UK, it is one of the few of Verne's novels which did not get picked up by Sampson Low.

Octavo, original reddish-brown cloth titled in white & black on spine & front panel. Title page printed in red and black. 334 pp + [1] pp ad + 32 pp publisher's catalogue at rear, dated June, 1904. A bit loose, spine panel darkened, cloth a bit soiled; a very good copy of a very scarce book. ¶ Humorous science fiction novel, a body-switch, in this case from male to female. One of the funniest SF/ Social satires of the period. Richardson was a popular humourist and wit, best known perhaps for WHISKEY AND SODA (1910) and THE MAN WHO LOST HIS PAST (1903); he was s suicide in 1917.

Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black on spine panel. 272 pp + [4] pp publisher's ads at rear. Covers faded and with wear at the edges, faint cup ring on front panel, a good, sound copy of a very scarce book. ¶ A curious novel. The purported memoirs of a man who travels to Malaysia, Borneo, Egypt, Nepal & California, and sets himself up as a god in each of these places. A sort of pre-Vonnegut philosophy, and completely unknown due to the rarity of the book. "I invented the god racket and I have no imitators".

THE SEVEN HEADED MONSTER; Or, Nick Carter's Midnight Calling. Edited by Chickerling Carter. New Nick Carter Weekly No. 538.
DIME NOVEL. NEW NICK CARTER WEEKLY No. 528. Edited by Chickering Carter.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. 28 pp., ads. Issued as No. 538 in the New Nick Carter Weekly Series, April 20, 1907 (5 cents). Paper lightly browned, all covers present but torn & frayed along spine panel, minor stains. Very good bright copy. ¶ Weird mystery with a secret society and advanced flying machines.

MOTOR MATT'S QUEST; Or, Three Chums in Strange Waters. Motor Stories No. 16.
DIME NOVEL. MOTOR STORIES No. 16. ANONYMOUS [By the author of "Motor Matt"].

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Motor Stories No. 16, June 12, 1909 (5 cents). 31 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Light stains along spine panel, minor browning, a near fine copy, mostly unopened. Excellent condition. ¶ Advanced science, a submarine, thrilling adventures in the southern swamps.

THE YOUNG ELECTRICIAN; Or, The Crossed Wires at the Miracle Factory. By John L. Douglas. Brave and Bold Weekly No. 427.
DIME NOVEL. BRAVE AND BOLD WEEKLY No. 427. DOUGLAS, John L.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Brave and Bold Weekly No. 427, Feb. 25, 1911 (5 cents). 31 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Paper browning, wear & small chips along edges, a good to very good copy with bright attractive covers. ¶ "In a beautiful halo, formed of myriads of tongues of red, yellow and blue flae, Bert stood revealed". The real miracle at this factory is how this kid didn't electrocute himself.

TWO OLD COINS; Or, Found in the Elephant Cave. By Richard R. Montgomery. Pluck and Luck Weekly No. 927.
DIME NOVEL. PLUCK AND LUCK WEEKLY No. 927. MONTGOMERY, Richard R.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Pluck and Luck Weekly No 927, March 8, 1916 (5 cents). 30 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Tiny chips, paper supple, a near fine copy. ¶ A search for pirate gold in the south seas.

THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN. A Story of Exciting Adventure. By Howard Austin. Pluck and Luck Weekly No. 887.
DIME NOVEL. PLUCK AND LUCK WEEKLY No. 887. AUSTIN, Howard.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Pluck and Luck Weekly No. 887, June 2, 1915 (5 cents). 30 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Minor browning and small stains, mostly unopened. Very good or better copy. ¶ African adventure and lost race.

THREE CHUMS' GREAT FIND; Or, The Secret of the Cliff Dwellers. By Harry Moore. Three Chums Weekly No. 26.
DIME NOVEL. THREE CHUMS WEEKLY No. 26. MOORE, Harry.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Three Chums Weekly No. 26, May 4, 1900 (5 cents). 30 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Chipping along spine and cover separated; small stains to fore-edges, paper is off-white and supple; a very good copy. ¶ Sensational lost race novel, treasure seeking and a hidden city of the cliff-dwellers.

THE STEPS OF DOOM. A Tale of the Land of the Incas. By L. Philips. All-Around Weekly No 8.
DIME NOVEL. ALL-AROUND WEEKLY No. 8. PHILIPS, L.

Quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as All Around Weekly No. 8, December 17, 1909 (5 cents). 28 pp, ads. Complete with all covers. Tape reinforcement to spine and all cover edges, as well as tape reinforcement to the edges of every page - some sort of older wax-paper like tape, but it extends an inch into all margins and has stained the paper, and it does obscure some of the text. Very good otherwise. ¶ Sensational lost race novel to a hidden city of the Incas.

THE WHITE FAWN; Or, The Fairies of Fire and Water! Founded Upon the Celebrated French Drama Called "LA BICHE AU BOIS!" From Which the Fairy Extravaganza, Entitled "The White Fawn." Now Playing at Niblos, New York, Was Adapted.
ANONYMOUS.

Wrappers; disbound, complete, lacking a few preliminary blanks and perhaps a half-title. pp [5] - 84 . A few stamps from both the New York Public Library and also Kittles Circulating Library, 765 Sixth Ave., New York (on title and first leaf of text). Minor creases and a few stains; a very good copy. Rare. ¶ A fairy tale / fantasy novel, complete with princes and princesses, a dark towers, fairy kingdoms, a haunted forest, a magician and a magic talisman. THE WHITE FAWN ends at p. 49; it is followed by two other tales, KING CHARMING, also a fairy-tale, and THE STORY OF HASCHEM, an Arabian Nights type fantasy tale concerning the Caliph Harun al Rascid,

OSRU. A Tale of Many Incarnations. The History of a Soul.
STERNS, Justin.

Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine & front panel. 197 pp. Gilt on spine tarnished and mostly effaced, a few old ink ownership marks; corner wear; a very good copy. ¶ Occult novel of a soul which is reincarnated throughout the ages, from Ancient Egypt to modern America. Issued later in the UK by the Theosophical Publishing House, 1911. A scarce book.

THE FACE AND THE MASK. Illustrated by A. Hencke.
BARR, Robert

Small format 12mo, original rough-grained green cloth titled in silver on spine, titled and with a decorative device in silver on front panel. 250 pp + [1] pp ads at rear for the publisher's "Twentieth Century Series", which includes this volume. Frontispiece and four additional full-page plates. Small closed tear to outer margin of page 71; contemporary ink name, spine panel a bit darkened and with a few small spots, light wear at extremities; a very good copy. ¶ Short story collection which includes"The Doom of London" (S.F. Catastrophe story) and "The Great pegram Mystery" (Sherlock Holmes Parody featuring Sherlaw Kombs), plus several fantasy tales.

ATALANTIS. A Novel.
MORROW, Lowell Howard.

Octavo, original red cloth stamped in silver and black. 285 pp. Light rubbing to cloth at tips, bookplate of William Harry Hopkins on inner front cover, a near fine copy. ¶ A group of millionaires construct a 25-acre artificial island on pillars off the coast of New York, just outside the three mile limit - and therefore autonomous. Free love and drugs are sanctioned and encouraged. The new utopian nation's policies create conflict with other nations of the world.

WOLF. The Memoirs of a Cave-Dweller. With Drawings by The Author.
McCORD, P.B.

Octavo, original green pictorial cloth designed and lettered in black and white. Of two noted bindings, this is presumably the first state; an issue in grey cloth with black lettering and green designs also exists. Frontispiece & 11 plates, and many illustrations in the text. [133] pp. Spine just slightly canted, light rubbing to white chalk areas on front panel, a very good bright copy. Formerly, Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, magistrate and author Emily Murphy's copy, signed by her on the front free endpaper, dated Edmonton, December, 1908. ¶ Prehistoric novel, with fabulous illustrations by the author.

IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWN.
CHAMBERS, Robert W.

Octavo, original grey-green pictorial cloth designed in black, white, light green and dark green. [286] pp. Frontispiece in color. Spine panel a bit dull, a few small marks, bookplate on inner front cover. A very good copy. ¶ Connected series of short stories featuring an intrepid zoologist. Most tales are sf, some are supernatural, one tale is to an island inhabited by prehistoric creatures.

"IN SARGASSO." MISSING. A Romance. Narrative of Capt. Austin Clark, of the Tramp Steamer "Caribas," Who, For Two Years, Was a Captive Among the Savage Folk of the Seaweed Sea.
CHAMBERS, Julius.

Reissue, first published by The Transatlantic Publishing Co. in 1896. Octavo, original green pictorial cloth designed in dark green; lettered in gilt. 182 pp. Frontispiece. Spine lightly canted, a few stray marks; a very good bright copy. ¶ A sea captain is stranded in the Sargasso Sea. Lost races, castaways from all nations & time periods are found amid a community of trapped ships. Social satire, cultural quirks and pet octopuses. The leaders of the individual ships hold court when standing in a barrel of sea water. An unusual and humorous American dystopian novel.

MR. HAWKINS' HUMOROUS ADVENTURES.
FRANKLIN, Edgar [pseudonym of Edgar Franklin Stearns].

Octavo, original maroon cloth spine panel titled in gilt, front panel titled in black & gilt and bordered in black. 323 pp, frontispiece and five additional full-page plates in the text. Stains on rear panel, front panel with some old insect tracings; a good to very good copy. Of two noted bindings, this is likely the first issue. ¶ Twelve crazy invention stories. Some are certainly Science Fiction: a flying car, the Hawkins Hydro-Vapor lift, etc. All the stories originally appeared in ARGOSY magazine.

SHAFTS FROM AN EASTERN QUIVER. Illustrated by Arthur Pearse.
MANSFORD, C.J.

Octavo, original decorated grey cloth blocked and titled in black and brown on front cover, titled in gilt and decorated in black & brown on spine. Decorated endpapers. 279 pp. Frontispiece and numerous plates within the text. Small bookplate, inner hinges cracked, slight wear to spine tips; a bright, very good copy. ¶ Connected series of Oriental short stories collected from THE STRAND magazine. Fantasy & supernatural; a suspended animation tale of a woman frozen in ice, a tale of a man-sized spider, etc.

FAREWELL NIKOLA. Illustrated by Harold Piffard.
BOOTHBY, Guy.

Octavo, original blue cloth over beveled boards, titled in white (or-reverse-titled in white within gilt edged white boxes) on spine, stamped in white and with a pictorial paper label on front panel. 315 pp + [4] pp. publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus seven additional full-page plates throughout the text. Foxing to the endpapers and the tissue guard; spine white lettering on spine faded otherwise a very good, bright copy. ¶ The final Doctor Nikola novel, concerning a criminal mastermind and sinister occultist who seeks immortality and plots to take over the world.

TOLD AFTER SUPPER. With 96 or 97 illustrations by Kenneth M. Skeaping.
JEROME, Jerome K.

Octavo, original orange-red cloth titled and decorated in black on upper cover, titled in black on spine. Top edges gilt. 169 pp + 14 pp publisher's catalogue at rear (which includes 2 pages of type specimens). Frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout, both full page and within the text. Printed in dark blue ink on heavy pale blue paper. A few pages roughly opened, one signature sprung, small marks to the cloth; spine panel tanned and with a small chip repaired at head of spine; very good overall. ¶ Collection of Christmas ghost stories, but actually humorous spoofs of the genre. The setting is a drunken storytelling session on Christmas eve. The tales are none too spooky, but the format of the book and the illustrations are completely wonderful.

AN EGYPTIAN LOVE SPELL.
BILLINGS, Maris Herrington [Pseudonym of Edith S. Billings].

Octavo, original brown boards titled in black and decorated with a design of a ring in gold, red, green, gray and white on front cover, red cloth spine with gilt titles. 64 pp. Tear to cloth across spine and extending down about 1/2 inch along the front gutter; neatly repaired, but there it is. Light wear to edges otherwise a solid, very good, bright copy. An issue in decorated wrappers is also known. Reprinted from the November, 1913, issue of "The Word". ¶ Fantasy. Reincarnation, and a vision of a previous existence.

NEW BODIES FOR OLD.
RENARD, Maurice.

Octavo, original green cloth titled in black on spine & front cover, page edges stained green. 308 pp. Previous owner's name label which has had the address blacked out affixed to the front free endpaper, endpapers browned, light wear at spine ends; very good. ¶ Biological Science Fiction, a mad scientist who grafts plants and animals together. Somewhat grotesque.

PHAROS THE EGYPTIAN. Illustrated by John H. Bacon.
BOOTHBY, Guy.

Octavo, original blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt on spine and front panel. 376 pp + [8] pp. publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 11 additional full-page black & white plates inserted throughout the text, all by Bacon. Light foxing, gilt on front cover a bit rubbed but a very nice, bright copy. Very good. ¶ Supernatural fantasy novel. Pharos, a re-animated Egyptian mummy, is a practicing sorceror and black magician who brings a plague down upon 19th century London. An excellent "mummy's revenge" novel, one of the best.

WHICH ONE? With Illustrations by J.V. McFall.
BENNET, Robert Ames.

Octavo, original brown cloth titled and decorated in green and gilt. 403 pp. Colour frontispiece and three additional full-page colour plates by McFall. Minor marks to covers, a clean, bright, very good copy. ¶ Occult fantasy novel of hypnotism and soul transfer

VAMPIRES OVERHEAD.
HYDER, Alan.

Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black on spine panel. 248 pp + [6] pp publisher's ads at rear. Browning to text block, small old ink name on inner front cover, evidence of a small sticker removed from base of spine, cloth grubby and a bit worn at edges; a fairly good copy. Scarce. ¶ Horror thriller, alien vampires come to earth on a comet and wreak destruction. Issued as a tag-along to the publisher's CREEPS series.

MORNING STAR. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael.
HAGGARD, H. Rider.

Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine, titled and decorated in black on front cover. 308 pp. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard and two additional full page black & white plates by Michael. Minor foxing to page edges, binding a bit rubbed at the extremities, a very good, bright copy. ¶ Fantasy novel set in Ancient Egypt.

CHILD OF STORM. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael.
HAGGARD, H. Rider.

Octavo, original red-brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, titled and bordered in blind on front cover. 348 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard and two additional full page black & white plates by Michael. Lower fore-edge corners bumped,endpapers browned, moderate foxing; a very good bright copy. ¶ African adventure novel, Allan Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes create turmoil among the Zulu kingdom.

THE WIZARD OF THE WOODS. Six Illustrations by Bernice Brown.
LITTLE, James Stanley.

Octavo, original red printed paper covers, pictorial label on front panel. 192 pp, Frontispiece and 5 additional full page plates. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mrs. Alexander Tocher from Ja Stanley Little with Kindest regards & best wishes, New Year 1940. JSL (monogram) Parkstone, Dorset". Spine creases, minor wear at edges of wrappers, a few stray marks; a very good clean copy. ¶ Fantasy novel. Two small children, entering the woods near their home, encounter an old immortal wizard who takes them back to various epochs of history. They visit the age of the Romans, the Stone Age, they encounter dinosaurs in Prehistoric Times, etc. The wizard teaches them a sense of place, both historically and by telling them of the natural history of the woods where they live. A curious work, sort of sugar-coated science mixed with magic. James Little was a prolific author, he was the secretary to the Society of Authors in 1887-1888, and the dedicatee of H. Rider Haggard's THE VIRGIN OF THE SUN (1922). He died in 1940, making this a particularly late inscription.

OLGA ROMANOFF; Or, The Syren of the Skies. A Sequel to "The Angel of the Revolution".
GRIFFITH, George.

Large octavo, original gold pictorial cloth, front cover designed and lettered in black & dark blue, spine designed and lettered in gilt. 377 pp + [3] pp publishers ads at rear. Frontispiece by Edwin S. Hope. Inner front hinge cracking at half-title leaf, text block a bit shaken, cloth lightly worn at head & heel of spine & at the corner tips, light bumping. A very good, bright copy, overall. ¶ Set in the year 2030, Olga Romanoff, descendant of the Czars, leads a counter-revolution against the anarchists, herein called the Aerians. Mind-control drugs, super-science, communication with Mars.

THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION. A Tale of the Coming Terror. With Illustrations by Fred T. Jane.
GRIFFITH, George.

Seventh Edition. Large octavo, original pictorial blue cloth over beveled boards, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel titled and ruled in gold, dark brown coated endpapers. 395 pp + [1] pp publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard (by Edwin S. Hope) plus 16 additional full-page plates by Jane throughout the text. A nearly fine, bright copy. Identical in format to the first printing. ¶ Science Fiction novel of future global war. Set in 1903-1905, concerning an anarchist takeover of the world - and they succeed. Advanced inventions and airships, and Natasha - The Angel of the Revolution - so called because she has a penchant for singing anthems off the decks of the anarchists airships. Or maybe she's just pretty.

VALDAR THE OFT-BORN: A Saga of Seven Ages. Illustrated by Harold Piffard.
GRIFFITH, George.

Large octavo, original dark red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt on front panel, titled in gilt on spine. Of several known binding states this is the first and the nicest. 416 pp. Frontispiece and 15 additional full-page plates by Piffard inserted throughout the text. Small ink inscription dated 1900 on inner front cover, endpapers browned, small worn spot (1/2 inch) along outer front hinge, spine tips show wear; a very good tight copy. ¶ Heroic fantasy novel of immortality / reincarnation from Ancient Ninevah to the Age of Napoleon. Valdar, the Son of Odin, travels from one lifetime to another, doomed for eternity to beat up whoever and wherever it is that he ends up next. Basically a series of bloodthirsty historical novelettes strung together on a flimsy charge. A pretty nice copy of a very attractive book.

VEENI THE MASTER. "The Story of a Dream". A Romance.
LAMPORT, Richard Fifield.

Octavo, original red cloth stamped in black on front cover, gilt titles to spine. 305 pp + [3] pp ads + [48] pp publisher's catalogue dated January 1912 bound in at rear. Front & rear endpapers neatly replaced with matching paper; spine slightly canted, spine panel browned and spotted, inner hinges cracking; a fairly good copy of a very scarce book. ¶ Edwardian Science Fiction novel. "Science fantasy romance in which, just before life on earth is extinguished by the fires of a comet, a 'chosen few' are enabled by an omnipresent but non-altrustic Veeni to transfer their souls into the bodies of the human inhabitants of Zan, a planet round another star." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy [1980].

TIGER RIVER.
FRIEL, Arthur O.

Octavo, original light blue cloth designed and lettered in dark blue. 352 pp. Light soiling to clothtrifling wear, a clean, very good copy. ¶ Classic lost race novel, The second of four connected novels, with The Pathless Trail, The King of No Man's Land, and Mountains of Mystery. They describe the adventures of a trio of American soldiers of fortune in unexplored tracts of the Amazon, Orinoco and other regions along the Brazilian-Venezualan border. Treasure hunting, and the White Indians of legend.

ERIC BRIGHTEYES. With Numerous Illustratons by Lancelot Speed.
HAGGARD, H. Rider.

Octavo, original bluish-green cloth over beveled boards, gilt titles on spine & front panel. 319 pp + 16 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated 12/90. 17 full-page illustrations and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Small closed tear to outer margin of p. 88, one plate loose, spine lightly tanned and with one small spot; light tanning to edges of the cloth, minor rubbing and some tiny chips to spine ends. Overall, a very good bright copy, tight and with no cracking to the hinges.