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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IRAS: A MYSTERY.
DOUGLAS, Theo. [pseudonym of Mrs. H.D. Everett]

Octavo, original orange cloth decorated with an Egyptian motif in silver, red and green on spine and front panel. 251 pp. Ink name on front free endpaper dated 1897, stain along fore-edge of back cover, spine a trifle canted and light wear to spine tips; a good to very good copy. ¶ Weird supernatural fantasy novel; magic, witchcraft and the raising of the dead. The mummy of a young Egyptian woman is revived in Victorian England. She is pursued by an Egyptian priest, and dies from an ancient curse.

COLD HARBOUR.
YOUNG, Francis Brett.

Octavo, original dark blue cloth stamped with decorations in purple and yellow, titles in gold, top edges stained yellow. 292 pp. Spine lightly canted and with a few stress marks, a few stray marks to the cloth, a clean, very good copy. ¶ A classic novel of the supernatural, centered around "an ancient house of strange malignancy", highly praised by H. P. Lovecraft.

THE MYSTIC SPELL. A Metaphysical Romance.
TAYLOR, Ada White.

Octavo, original dark gray cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 276 pp. Small bookstore stamp (Acres of Books!) to lower front inner cover. About a fine copy in a very good dust jacket, minor wear & tiny chips with a few short closed tears to edges, spine slightly browned. Scarce in jacket. ¶ Psychic phenomena, metaphysics, life after death.

THE JOSS: A Reversion.
MARSH, Richard.

Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black, yellow and gilt. 310 pp. A good to very good copy - some minor stains, front free endpaper missing, evidence of a large bookplate removed from inner front cover; cloth somewhat rubbed and worn; still, despite the faults, a bright & attractive copy of a very scarce book. ¶ Supernatural horror novel. A young woman inherits a substantial fortune and an old, decrepit, mouldering house; she also acquires a strange, small idol which appears to have a life of it's own. Considered by many to be a more powerful and effective work than his classic horror novel THE BEETLE [1897].

CORUSCATIO. The Magical Cactus Voice. Sub Figurâ CMXXXIV.
SHIVA, Frater.

Octavo, original glossy pictorial boards. Hardcover edition, limited to 150 copies, each with a specially designed bookplate signed by the author affixed to the front free endpaper. 158 pp, black & white illustrations & diagrams. Issued simultaneously with a paperback edition which was limited to 418 copies, the hardback edition sold out rapidly. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. ¶ This book also has the technical - magical title "Sepher Nesek Magi Qaqtvs Qol vel Coruscatio, sub figurâ CMXXXIV: "The Book of Libation - The Magical Cactus Voice." It is dedicated to Aleister Crowley's "lost Liber," that is: "The Cactus - Liber CMXXXIV - 934," no copies of which are known to have survived. Frater Shiva was a high-ranking member of Solar Lodge, a 1960's American occult group which based many of its teaching on the works of Aleister Crowley. Frater Shiva wrote the exposition of Solar Lodge "Inside Solar Lodge - Outside The Law" (2007, revised in 2012 as "Inside Solar Lodge - Beyond the Veil"). CORUSCATIO deals with the use of psychoactive substances as magical libations and their role in modern day occultism.

INSIDE SOLAR LODGE: BEHIND THE VEIL. True Tales of Initiation and Inner Adventure.
SHIVA, Frater. Foreword by Martin P. Starr.

Octavo, original glossy pictorial wrappers. Limited Edition Softcover. 314 pp, black & white illustrations, appendices, endnotes. Foreword by Martin P. Starr. Issued simultaneously in a hardcover edition of 111 copies signed by the author on a specially designed bookplate and a limited edition paperback, the hardcover edition sold out almost immediately. This copy is one of the paperbound issues, but is one of a very limited number which were issued with the signed bookplates which were offered to customers who attempted to buy the hardcover edition on the day of publication but were denied a copy due to its extreme limitation. Only a handful of signed paperbound copies would have been thus issued. We offer a fine copy of the paperbound edition, signed by the author on an inserted and affixed bookplate, one of the very few copies so issued. ¶ Solar Lodge was quite certainly the most controversial of the many occult groups that sprung up in 1960s America. This volume is the followup to 2007's INSIDE SOLAR LODGE - OUTSIDE THE LAW, which for the first time revealed the truth behind the rumors and innuendo surrounding Solar Lodge, which claimed to be the only legitimate lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis operating in the world at that time. Frater Shiva was a high-ranking member of the group and sheds light on the inner workings of what began as a sincere mystico-magickal order that eventually imploded as a result of the deterioration of its leader Jean Brayton/Soror Capricornus. As revealing as Outside the Law was, the present volume is much expanded and much more revealing, including the centrality of the psychedelic sacrament LSD in the ceremonies. There is also section discussing the alleged theft by Solar Lodge members of Aleister Crowley's library from Sasha Germer, the widow of Karl Germer. The current work is almost double the size of "outside the Law", and adds new insights by former Solar Lodge members Frater Taurus, Frater Jon, and Frater Anubis as well as well-known Thelemic commentator Jerry Cornelius.

AT THE CROSSROADS.
DIMECH, Alkistis, along with Peter Grey & Jake Stratton-Kent [editors].

Small square quarto [230 x 210 mm], original black and white meshed cloth stamped in red. 208 pp, printed in black & white and colour, illustrated. Linited to 800 hand-numbered copies. A fine copy, as new, without dust jacket as issued. ¶ Western magic intersects with the African diaspora religions. A New World of magic is born at the Crossroads. A vibrant new anthology featuring the work of Jake Stratton-Kent, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold, Aaron Leitch and a host of other practitioners. From alchemy to hexing, cunning craft to the petro loa, a powerful fusion is taking place which flows out to the four corners of the world. Sixteen essays in total with extensive original artwork and images. Contents include: Peter Grey - Preamble: Standing Still; Jake Stratton-Kent - Necromancy: the Role of the Dead in a Living Tradition; Aaron Leitch - Folk Traditions and the Solomonic Revival; Eric K Lerner - Eleggua; Eleggua's Worlds (art); Stephen Grasso - Open up the Gate; Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold - The Invisible City in the Realm of Mystery; Richard Ward - In the Shadow of the Cross; Drac Uber & Ivy Kerrigan - Libations for the Lwa; Michael Cecchetelli - Countermeasures; Humberto Maggi - Crossing Worlds; Ryan Valentine - A brief history of the Juju; Hagen Von Tulien - Soul Dream (art); Kyle Fite - The Syncretic Soul at the Cross of Cosmic Union; ConjureMan Ali - Goetic Initiation; Christopher D Bradford - Nigromantic Putrfaction; Chad Balthazar - A Garden Amidst the Flames; Angela Edwards - Queen of Fire & Flesh (art); Jake Stratton-Kent - Magic at the Crosssroads.

THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. A Novel.
WHEATLEY, Dennis.

Octavo, original red cloth titled in black on spine and front panel, map endpapers. [329] pp + [5] pages of publisher's ads + 40 pp publisher's catalogue dated Spring, 1935 bound in at rear. Old faint rubber stamp on front free endpaper and three letters MSL perforated (unobtrusively) towards fore-edge of the same page, no other markings. Spine slightly leaned, faded & spotted with minor chafing at head & foot, corners slightly chafed, edges foxed, some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a solid, very good copy. This copy includes p. [329], which has a short address from the author inviting readers to contact him with their comments. There is a penciled note on a preliminary leaf which notes that this page was often excised, presumably following reconsideration by the author. ¶ The first known reprinting of the first edition, with the words "Second Impression" on the undated title page. Originally issued 12 December 1934, the first printing is rare, and early printings are very uncommon. At some point Hutchinson went from stating "Second Impression", etc, to stating "Tenth Thousand"; this copy would presumably pre-date any copies notated as such. An inscribed copy of the first printing in dust wrapper and wrap-around band brought £4500 at auction (Bloomsbury, 12/11/2008). Wheatley's first occult novel and the most popular supernatural novel of the 20th century, basis for the 1968 Hammer film of the same title starring Christopher Lee.

EIKOSTOS. Xoanon Limited, 1992-2012. A Bibliography [accompanied by] VOX BAETYLA XX. Xoanon Publishing 1992-2012. A catalogue of an Exhibition at the Esoteric Book Conference, September 15-16, 2012.
SCHULKE, Daniel [editor]; Andrew D. Chumbley, et al.

Octavo. Full variegated natural linen with colour printed dust jacket. 106 pp, 32 illustrations in full colour, plus additional black & white images. 740 copies printed. A fine copy, as new in dust jacket. Our copies are accompanied by the pamphlet VOX BAETYLA XX. XOANON PUBLISHING 1992-2012. ESOTERIC BOOK CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 15-16, 2012. Octavo, original colour printed wrappers. 24 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies. Illustrated in full colour. A catalogue of 96 items displayed at the special Xoanon Exhibition at the 2012 Esoteric Book Conference. A stunning exhibition catalogue, the display included original manuscripts, talismans, initiatic editions and original monadic transmissions. ¶ The face of the magical order Cultus Sabbati, a body of English traditional witchcraft initiates, first manifest in 1992 with the publication of Azoëtia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft by Andrew D. Chumbley. The book presented a sharply different view of the historical practice of witchcraft at the close of the twentieth century, at once drawing resonance with the phantasmagoric Sabbath of the Witches, cults of Sumerian and Graeco-Roman witch-deities, and the high magical operations of medieval necromancy. The most important and enduring feature of the Cultus was its inheritance of orally-transmitted spellcraft and lore, in part derived from the topological features of the daimonic medieval Witches' Sabbath. In its textually-transmitted numen, it took as its chosen corpus the grimoire, a spell-book or manual of black magic, thus becoming a book of magic rather than about it. The dense layering of incantation, complex sorcerous precepts and preternatural imagery gave the Azoëtia a visceral and living quality which continues to emanate from its pages. The dreamt name for the entic manifestation of the book was XOANON, the 'Effigy fallen from the Sky', which came to embody the exterior guise or glamour of Sabbatic Witchcraft. In the years that followed, Xoanon gave birth to a steady procession of "living books", each driven by its own familiar spirit, and each possessing its own distinct magical vehicle. EIKOSTOS, a Greek word meaning 'Twentieth', is a complete historical bibliography of the first two decades of Xoanon Limited. Fully illustrated in colour and black and white, it details the history, specifications and arcana of each Xoanon title. The text draws upon previously unpublished images, texts and correspondence to embody the patterning of magical emanation crucial to the manifestation of the XOANON corpus. Also included are notes on critical reviews, rare and privately published magical volumes, ephemera, and forthcoming works by the initiates of the Cultus Sabbati. As a scribe bearing witness to time, EIKOSTOS unfolds the witch-gnosis of the Sabbatic Current as manifest through the bound pages of the enchanted book. EIKOSTOS is available in a single full linen hardcover edition with colour dust jacket.

THE LEAPER BETWEEN. An Historical Study of the Toad-Bone Amulet; Its Form, Function and Praxis in Popular Magic. Trade Paperbound Issue.
CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.

Small octavo. The trade paperbound issue. 66 pp. A fine copy. ¶ 'The Leaper Between' is scholarly essay concerning the little-know ritual of obtaining the witches amulet known as the toad-bone. Known to rural folk magicians and secret societies such as the Society of the Horseman's Word, the exacting ritual of killing a toad to obtain the bone of power has been documented in various forms and cultural milieus for two millennia, though its origin is likely far older. Focusing on extant forms in Britain and Europe, Chumbley traces the metamorphosis of the toad-bone amulet from its beginning as a talisman for controlling animals to its ultimate manifestation as a conduit of diabolic power of the 'Toad-Witch'. The first academic study of this little-known aspect of folk magic, The Leaper Between is here presented in unabridged form, newly typeset in a fine binding worthy of its fascination. It will be of interest to students of comparative religion, magic, and folklore alike.

THE LEAPER BETWEEN. An Historical Study of the Toad-Bone Amulet; Its Form, Function and Praxis in Popular Magic. Deluxe Hardbound Issue.
CHUMBLEY, Andrew D.

Small octavo. The deluxe hardbound issue, bound in full Japanese bookcloth with gilt toad device, art paper endsheets, limited to 231 copies. 66 pp. A fine copy. Out-of-print on publication - all copies were sold out from the publisher before the book was released. ¶ 'The Leaper Between' is scholarly essay concerning the little-know ritual of obtaining the witches amulet known as the toad-bone. Known to rural folk magicians and secret societies such as the Society of the Horseman's Word, the exacting ritual of killing a toad to obtain the bone of power has been documented in various forms and cultural milieus for two millennia, though its origin is likely far older. Focusing on extant forms in Britain and Europe, Chumbley traces the metamorphosis of the toad-bone amulet from its beginning as a talisman for controlling animals to its ultimate manifestation as a conduit of diabolic power of the 'Toad-Witch'. The first academic study of this little-known aspect of folk magic, The Leaper Between is here presented in unabridged form, newly typeset in a fine binding worthy of its fascination. It will be of interest to students of comparative religion, magic, and folklore alike.

DEALINGS WITH THE DEAD. Two Volumes.
A SEXTON OF THE OLD SCHOOL [Sargent, Lucius Manlius 1786 - 1867].

Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind on upper & lower covers, ruled in blind & titled in gilt on spine panels, brown coated endpapers. 698 pp (continuous); Indexes at rear of Vol II. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and extra engraved title page in Vol I. Cloth lightly worn at head & heel of spine panels, slightly more pronounced at the base of the spine of Vol II, but overall a fresh and pleasing set. ¶ Collected essays by Sargent, a noted Antiquary, on funeral methods & treatment of the dead throughout the ages, along with passages on witchcraft, necromancy, divination, juggling et al. A curious and interesting collection; here first published in book form.

DISCLOSURES IN SCARLET.
JACOBI, Carl.

Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 181 pp. 3,127 copies printed. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, just slightly rubbed. The dust jacket is the first 'state', without the publisher's price sticker raising the price to $6.00 on the front flap. ¶ Collection of seventeen supernatural stories.

ARCANUM BESTIARUM. Of the Subtil and Occult Virtues of Divers Beasts. With Original Woodcuts by Liv Rainey-Smith.
FITZGERALD, Robert.

Octavo, original cloth in full colour dust jacket. 272 pp, printed in two colour ink on heavy stock, and illustrated with fifty-five original woodcut designs by artist Liv Rainey-Smith. 1,400 copies printed. A fine copy in dust jacket. ¶ Written in the great tradition of the medieval bestiaries, Robert Fitzgerald's long-awaited new work Arcanum Bestiarum re-imagines the animal menagerie in the context of bestial mystery and atavistic power. Written for the modern magical practitioner and zoophile, the work examines the occult virtues and totemic majesties of fifty animals, theriomorphs, and their kindred. Correspondences with deific powers, atavistic wisdom, and mythopoetic emanation are examined, especially in light of the tutelary powers all animals possess. The Tetramorph & essentially an animalic 'crown of creation' & is here transformed into the far broader and innovative concept of the 'Theriomorph', or, the Zodiak Entire of Creation as an apotheosis of the animal form and zoötype… One of the greatest of virtues possessed by the Human is its bestial heritage, both spiritually and genetically. These attributes are often seen as primitive, chaotic and dangerous to civilized culture by the custodians of moralism and religion today, but the fact remains that it is our animal heritage that makes us what we are, or, more accurately, what we should and can be. Special attention is given to the zoomorphic aspects of alchemy, which historically used the bestial emblemata as veils of the stages of the Great Work, as well as shamanism and witchcraft, bodies of knowledge particularly rich in the lore of animals as spirit-helpers. The work is an emergent strand of magical investigation long part of the author's private life, where he has worked in the ecological field of wildlife rehabilitation, especially raptors. The original woodcut illustrations were prepared especially for this title in close collaboration with the author. Amongst the more ambitious renderings in the work are the occult cryptofauna Homunculus, Manticore, Ouroboros, and Basilisk, as well as animals prominent in the ancient dawn of magick: the Bear, Goat, Viper, Peacock, and more. Completing the design elements is an original typeface designed for the work by calligrapher Gail Coppock, serving to illuminate this grimoire of the Magician's Primal Eden.

INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES. First Edition, Colonial Issue, in Dust Jacket.
BLACKWOOD, Algernon.

Octavo, original light blue paper-covered boards stamped in darker blue (vertical stripes and wreaths binding), gilt titles. 366 pp. + 8 pp publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, dated 5.7.14. Issued as volume 642 in Macmillan's Empire Library. The publisher's catalogue bound in at the end of the text is for MACMILLAN'S EMPIRE LIBRARY OF COPYRIGHT BOOKS, "For Circulation only in India and the British Dominions over the Seas". Titles up to number 640 are listed, and all volumes are available in paper covers at 2s. 6d.; or 'cloth' covers at 3s.6d. per copy. Minute chipping at spine head and mild tanning to the spine panel, a nice copy, very good, in the very rare dust jacket which has a portrait of the author on the front panel. The jacket is frayed and worn along the edges and there is some internal repair to the spine panel, where a missing section has been neatly reinforced with matching paper; very neatly done. Both front and rear jacket flaps have separated and have been re-affixed with internal paper, there is a small piece of tape on the inside of the rear flap. Overall, a good example of the extremely rare dust jacket. Colonial editions typically preceded the regularly published domestic UK editions but tend to suffer the ravages of the Colonies; even simply nice copies are very scarce, nice copies in jackets are rare. ¶ Blackwood's sixth short story collection, written at the height of his powers. Stories included are 'The Regeneration of Lord Ernie'; 'The Sacrifice'; 'The Damned'; 'A Descent into Egypt'; and 'Wayfarers'. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that this particular short story collection "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".

GEOSOPHIA. The Argo of Magic. Encyclopedia Goetia Volume II: From the Greeks to the Grimoires. Books I, II, III and IV [and] Encyclopedia Goetia Volume III: Books V, VI, VII & VIII. Two Volumes Complete, THE DELUXE EDITION OF 54 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES, bound in gilt-decorated vellum and marbled boards, slipcased.
STRATTON-KENT, Jake.

Two volumes. One of 54 hand-numbered copies comprising the Deluxe edition. Octavo, original gilt-decorated quarter vellum over marbled paper boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk bookmarkers. 312 + 326 pp, eight colour plates and illustrations, maps and tables, Indexes at rear. A fine set, as new in the original publisher's cloth covered slipcase. GEOSOPHIA: The Argo of Magic, by Jake Stratton-Kent, comprises the Second Volume of The Encyclopaedia Goetica, concluding the work that was begun in the First Volume, THE TRUE GRIMOIRE, which dealt extensively with the Grimorium Verum. ¶ Jake Stratton-Kent's masterpiece. Tracing the development of magic from the Greeks to the grimoires, it lays bare the chthonic roots of goetic ritual. By exposing the necromantic origins of much of modern magic we are able to reconnect with the source of our ritual tradition. There is a continuity of practice in the West which encompasses the pre-Olympian cults of Dionysus and Cybele, is found in the Greek Magical Papyri and Picatrix and flows into the grimoires. Rather than a muddle of superstition, the grimoire tradition is revealed as the living descendant of the ancient practices of the Goes. This is a work which redefines our understanding of the Western tradition, one which does not begin with Cabbala or Solomon, but rather descends into the Underworld and brings forth new life. JSK illuminates scarce and overlooked texts with an incisive commentary, from volcanic conjurations to over 70 pages dealing with Picatrix. Following the voyage of the Argonauts, Geosophia offers biographies of the heroes and gods, and discovers the hidden magical meanings and significance of their actions and adventures. Yet this is not a history lesson, JSK dares to imagine a global synthesis of magic where Western goetic magic, reconnected to its chthonic origins can dovetail with the African Traditional Religions. Like The True Grimoire, this further work in the Encyclopaedia Goetica series is both a scholarly and eminently practical work. Geosophia equips the modern grimoire magician with an arsenal of techniques and approaches that will transform their personal art. The mythic structure of Geosophia anchors the practice of the modern necromancer in an indigenous yet eclectic history which transfuses the Western Magical Tradition with the same vitality that we find in the African diaspora religions. Jake Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 1972, making forty years of continuous goetic practice. His practical work integrates the magical papyri, italo-french grimoires in particular the Grimorium Verum and African traditional religions with a focus on Quimbanda and magia negra. His interest in magic spans the ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern as well as stretching from the West to the Middle East and crucially, the New World. His scholarly approach is backed with a personal relationship with the spirits, which is rare to find in the modern world. An essential text, and certainly one of the most important and sought after books on grimoires & magick that has been written & published in the last 10 years.

MANDRAGORA. Further Explorations in Exoteric Poesis.
SARA, Ruby [editor].

Octavo, original copper shot crushed cloth embossed with a black foil spirit of Mandragora. Black head and tail bands, black endpapers. Archival quality paper. 249 pp. 450 hand-numbered copies printed. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. ¶ A companion volume to DATURA, comprising nine extensive essays and the works of 48 poets, including Adriano Camargo Monteiro, Adrienne J. Odasso, Alexander Cummins, Alison Leigh Lilly, Anna Applegate, Anthony Rella, Ariana Dawnhawk, Brock Marie Moore, Caroline Carver, Chris Page, Christopher Greenchild, Craig Fraser, Erynn Rowan Laurie, j/j hastain, Jenne Micale, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Melusine, Jimmy T. Kirkbride, Jose Leitao, Juleigh Howard Hobson, Juliet Johns, Katie Anderson, KH Solomon, Levannah Morgan, Literata Hurley, Mama Whodun, Mark Mandrake, Mark Saucier, Mark Valentine, Michael Routery, Mike Slater, Miriam Axel-Lute, Orryelle Defenstrate-Bascule, Paul Holman, Paul B.Rucker, Peter Dube, Peter Grey, Phil Legard, P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, Rebecca Buchanan, Ruby Sara, Scott Schroder, Shaun Johnson, Slippery Elm, Stuart Inman, T.Thorn Coyle, Valentina Cano, Voxx Voltair. In addition to the rich wilderness of poetry represented in these pages, Mandragora also presents nine essays on the nature of the strange, mad, chymical wedding of poet and magic, and the occult euphoria that follows it through time and space. Throughout these pages we glimpse the ghost of Orpheus, that god-touched and wandering patron of verse, in explorations of the poet as seducer of the gods, the role of verse in ritual theatre, and the poet in relationship with the Muse. Twice we are invited to fix our hearts on the lives and works of specific voices from the history of esoteric poetry in essays on Ted Hughes and Fernando Pessoa. The prophetic voice of the poet is explored, specifically in relationship to Brigid, as is the role of poetry in the grimoire tradition, the use of the cut-up technique in poetry and magic, and the relationship of poetry to the ongoing conversation between science and occult practice. In these essays the poetic word is grounded in tradition and history, rooted in thought & a face given form and a spirit animating its limbs. Essays included are 'The Poet as God Seducer' by P.Sufenas Virius Lupus; 'Black Venus and Wise Hermes' by Phil Legard; 'On Cut-Up' by Alexander Cummins; 'A Spell to Awaken England' by Peter Grey; 'Magical Verse in Ritual Theatre' by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule; 'Burying the Poet by Erynn Rowan Laurie; 'On Pessoa' by Jose Leitao; 'Houses of Death' by Jimmy T. Kirkbride; and 'Head of Orpheus' by Michael Routery. Ruby Sara writes: "for me there truly is no difference on a metaphysical level between poetry and magick - they are the same movement, and you cannot have true magick without poetry (or true poetry without magick). Poetry is the language of magick, it is magick given voice and form. On a practical level, the human voice is a critical instrument in various manner of spellcraft, as is language... history bears this out thoroughly I think... and in my experience, spellcraft is hugely enhanced by applying to it the music and rhythm and articulate beauty of invocative, resonant poetry."

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT. A Collection of Weird Tales. Edited and with a Preface by Roger Caillois. Translated from the French by Elizabeth Abbott.
POTOCKI, Jan [Count Jan Potocki, 1761-1815]

Octavo, original black cloth stamped in red, yellow, white and grey. 233 pp. A fine copy in a fresh, near fine dust jacket. ¶ Originally published in Polish [as Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie, 1847], later translated into French as Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, the work is a supposed translation of a manuscript from the time of the Napoleonic Wars which depicts events several decades earlier. As for the plot - the plot! "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa collects intertwining stories, all of them set in whole or in part in Spain, with a large and colorful cast of Gypsies, thieves, inquisitors, a cabbalist, a geometer, the cabbalist's beautiful sister, two Moorish princesses (Emina and Zibelda), and others that the brave, perhaps foolhardy, Walloon Guard Alphonse van Worden meets, imagines or reads about in the Sierra Morena mountains of 18th-century Spain while en route to Madrid. Recounted to the narrator over the course of sixty-six days, the novel's stories quickly overshadow van Worden's frame story. The bulk of the stories revolve around the Gypsy chief Avadoro, whose story becomes a frame story itself. Eventually the narrative focus moves again toward van Worden's frame story and a conspiracy involving an underground - or perhaps entirely hallucinated - Muslim society, revealing the connections and correspondences between the hundred or so stories told over the novel's sixty-six days. The stories cover a wide range of genres and subjects, including the gothic, the picaresque, the erotic, the historical, the moral, and the philosophic; and as a whole the novel reflects Potocki's far-ranging interests, especially his deep fascination with secret societies, the supernatural, and "Oriental" cultures. The novel's stories-within-stories sometimes reach several levels of depth, and characters and themes — a few prominent themes being honor, disguise, metamorphosis, and conspiracy - recur and change shape throughout. Because of its rich and varied interlocking structure, the novel echoes favorable comparison to many celebrated literary antecedents such as the ancient BCE Jatakas and Panchatantra as well as the medieval Arabian Nights and Decameron." - Wikipedia.

THE DEVIL FINDS WORK.
DELVING, Michael.

Octavo, original green cloth titled in black on spine panel. 210 pp. A few spots to page edges, some dings and light wear to edges; a very good copy in dust jacket. ¶ Bibliomystery, the detective is a rare book dealer, the plot concerns the theft of a silver chalice and the descration of churches by a 'notorious Satanist', Tristram Vail, once called "the wickedest man in the world': a character based on Aleister Crowley.

THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY.
GOLDING, Louis.

Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine. 446 pp. A very clean copy, near fine, lacking the rare dust jacket. ¶ A charming period novel - but parts of the story take place in the Italian town of Syracuse, which has a mysterious Abbey titled Collegium Artium Mysticarum, run by an evil black magician called Machatan - obviously based on Aleister Crowley. Betty May and Raoul Loveday are also thinly disguised as the characters Jinny Saunders and Walter Bennison.

THE MAGIC OF MY YOUTH.
CALDER-MARSHALL, Arthur.

Octavo, original green cloth titled in silver on spine panel. 226 pp. Penciled notes on front free endpaper, corners a bit soft, a very good copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, price clipped, quite chipped and worn with closed tears and small splits. ¶ The author's memoirs, with extensive references to Aleister Crowley, Victor Neuburg, Betty May, Raoul Loveday & Co. Includes two chapters largely devoted to the Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu and an account of Raoul Loveday's death.

THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER. With an Introduction by T. Earle Welby.
HOGG, James.

Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 287 pp. A new printing of this edition; the book was first published anonymously in 1824. A very bright, near fine copy. ¶ Gothic novel, purporting to be a memoir found in a suicides grave. Set in early 18th-century Scotland, it is part religious memoir, part crime novel, part supernatural fantasy, and overall one of the most convincing representations of the power of evil in all literature. "Perhaps the finest supernatural novel of its Century" - E.F. Bleiler.

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. With Illustrations and Decorations by Sonia Woolf.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas; WOOLF, Sonia [illustrator].

The first edition with these illustrations, this being the American issue with "Dodd, Mead & Company" at base of spine panel. Large octavo, original black cloth titled and decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard and eleven addition full-page plates by Woolf. 304 pp. Cloth a trifle rubbed, corners bit bumped, a very good bright copy. ¶ De Quincey (1785-1859) was a laudanum addict, this autobiographical work is the first to depict the ecstasies and horrors of opium usage. Perhaps the most famous work on opium addiction, it has had a vast influence on literature since it's initial publication in the London Magazine in 1821.

IN A GLASS DARKLY.
LE FANU, J. Sheridan.

An early printing of the one-volume edition, which first appeared in 1884. Octavo, original publisher's dark green cloth embossed in blind on front & rear panels, titled and decorated in gold on the spine panel, patterned endpapers. 471 pp + (1) pp ad at rear. Hairline crack to inner rear hinge, slight rubbing to edges of the cloth; a bright, attractive copy, very good indeed. ¶ A landmark collection of Victorian supernatural horror fiction, first published by Bentley in 1872 in three volumes. Collects 'Green Tea', 'The Familiar', 'Mr. Justice Harbottle', 'The Room in the Dragon Volant', and 'Carmilla', the latter being an often-anthologized vampire story.

HOFFMANN'S STRANGE STORIES. From the German...
HOFFMANN, E.T.A.

Small octavo, original ripple-grained brown cloth decorated in blind on front & rear covers, titled and decorated in gilt on spine panel. 444 pp. Foxing to first and last sections of leaves; two ink names, both 19th Century, in ink on front endpapers, very minor fraying to cloth at spine tips. Small ownership ticket of on upper front fixed endpaper. A very good, clean copy, much better than usually encountered. ¶ Collection of supernatural stories. The first collection of Hoffmann's tales to be published in America, including many stories printed here for the first time in English.

JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL. Signed Limited Edition.
CLARKE, Susanna.

Thick octavo, original black boards titled in black on spine panel, all edges stained black. 782 pp. The signed, limited edition, being one of 1450 copies signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase, as issued (miniscule bumps to the corners of the slipcase). ¶ Occult fantasy novel set in an alternate early 19th Century England. In this world, magic exists, but the magicians of the day believe it to have died out several hundred years before. Enter one Mr Gilbert Norrell, who owns a large collection of "books of magic" which he has spent years purchasing in order to to keep them out of the hands of others. He can indeed *practice* magic, and he succeeds in making the statues in York Cathedral speak. Norell is a sort of John Dee like figure, and he takes on as an apprentice the young Jonathan Strange, who is writing a book on 'The History and Practice of English Magic'. Much folkore is involved in the tale - the Raven King, Fairy Castles, etc - and much discussion of the ways and means of magic. The work is one of the greatest occult fantasy novels of the last 50 years or so - it won the Hugo award in 2005 - and comes very highly recommended.

THE TALKING IMAGE OF URUR.
HARTMANN, Franz, M.D.

Early reprint, originally issued by Lovell in 1890. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. 307 pp, ads on rear cover. Tiny chip to lower corner and small repaired chip to fore-edge of front wrapper, a very good, bright copy, clean and attractive. ¶ Supernatural novel of the occult and a mysterious society of adepts. Originally serialized in LUCIFER magazine in 1889, the work is a warning against the preachings of false prophets - and it is presumed that the false prophet in question - the "Talking Image" of the title - refers to the head of the Theosophical Society, Madame Blavatsky.

THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE or ILLUMINATION.
FREDERIC, Harold.

Third edition, September, 1896; issued six months after the first impression. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in gold, top edges gilt. 512 pp. A fine, bright copy. ¶ Realistic novel, a classic of American literature. The name "Theron Ware" was later used by author James Blish for his villain in the novel BLACK EASTER [1968], in which Ware is a black magician who brings about the death of God and the triumph of Satan. The character of "Theron Ware" in Black Easter is based on the occultist Aleister Crowley.

BLACK EASTER; Or, Faust Aleph-Null.
BLISH, James.

Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 165 pp. Small ink name & date on front free endpaper, else about fine in dust jacket. ¶ Occult fantasy. The head of Consolidated Warfare Services hires the most powerful black magician in the world to unleash all the demons in hell - for one night only. The magician, Theron Ware, is obviously styled on The Master Therion, Aleister Crowley, although Blish stole the name from Harold Frederic's 1896 novel THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE.

NIGHTMARES OF AN ETHER-DRINKER.
LORRAIN, Jean.

Octavo, original decorated black cloth stamped with an elaborate art-nouveau design in red on spine & front panel, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, decorated title page. 350 copies printed. 247 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Translated and with an Introduction by Brian Stapleford. A collection of ether-inspired nightmares & contes cruels by this leading figure in the French Decadent Movement of the 1880s & 90s.

THE MAGICIAN.
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.

Octavo, original gray-blue cloth stamped in red and green with a decorative device of two entwined cobras on front panel. 310 pp. Cloth a bit speckled at base of spine panel, slight spine lean, a very good bright copy. ¶ Maugham's famous novel concerning the magician Oliver Haddo, who studies the occult, ancient alchemy and modern biology, and successfully creates a homunculus. Haddo is closely modeled on Aleister Crowley, and the character of Margaret Dauncey is based on Crowley's first wife, Rose Kelly. "The Magician was basically the story of [the marriage between Rose Kelly and Aleister Crowley]... and of the strange dominiation of Crowley over his future wife" (R.L. Calder, W. Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom, London: Heinemann, 1972, p. 75). Crowley wrote a review of THE MAGICIAN and signed it "Oliver Haddo"; as well, Oliver Haddo was the name of the protagonist in Louis Wilkinson's biographical novel FORTH, BEAST (Faber, 1946, written under the pseudonym Louis Marlow - Wilkinson was one of the executors of Crowley's will).

THE IMAGE IN THE SAND.
BENSON, E.F.

Octavo, original tan cloth titled and decorated in gray and black on spine and front cover. 334 pp. Browning & light dust soiling to the fragile cloth covers; a very good, sound copy. ¶ Supernatural novel of the occult, based on Egyptian archaeology. Black magic, a magic talisman, & communication with the dead.

THE GREAT MAGICIAN. Illustrated by W.S. Stacey.
THREFALL, T.R.

Octavo, original pictorial red cloth decorated in black white and yellow, on spine & front panel, titled in gilt on spine. 307 pp + [8] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus two additional full-page plates by Stacey. Cloth a bit stained on rear panel, corners lightly bumped, bookplate on front fixed endpaper and two catalogue clipping describing the book tipped to front free endpaper; a very good copy of a very scarce book. ¶ Fantastic adventure, magic and lost race in North Africa. Deals with the coming of a new "Mahdi" ... Secret societies and unknown tribes are encountered, one of which are the last remnants of man-ape creatures, who migrated to their hidden location eons ago.

THE THREE IMPOSTORS.
MACHEN, Arthur.

Octavo, original decorated slate-gray cloth stamped in gold and white on spine, front and rear panels stamped in white. Title page and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Issued as a volume in the publisher's "Keynotes" Series. 290 pp + 14 pp ads for the Keynote Series + 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Tiny bumps at tips, minor foxing to endpapers, a near fine copy. ¶ Supernatural mystery thriller incorporating four weird tales, including "Novel of the Black Seal" and "Novel of the White Powder", considered to be classics of supernatural literature.

A NIGHT WITH MEPHISTOPHELES. Selected Works of Henry Ferris. Edited by S. T. Joshi.
FERRIS, Henry.

Octavo, original blue boards titled in gilt on spine. 250 copies printed. 254 pp + [4] pp ads at rear, Bibliography. A fine copy in dust jacket. ¶ A selection of six supernatural stories and three articles published in THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, 1841-1851, all published under pseudonyms or anonymously. Presented by S.T.Joshi as the original writings of a hitherto unknown author, two of the stories have been subsequently found to be translations of work by other authors. "A Leaf from the Berlin Chronicles" is by E.T.A. Hoffman and "Tobias Guarnerius" is by Charles Rabou. The others may well be by Ferris. One tale, 'A Night at the Bell Inn', was previously (and incorrectly) attributed to J. Sheridan Le Fanu by August Derleth in the 1975 Arkham House edition of 'The Purcell Papers'.

A MAYFAIR MAGICIAN. A Romance of Criminal Science.
GRIFFITH, George.

Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black on front panel and in gilt on the spine. 306 pp. Cloth generally somewhat soiled & worn, a good copy. ¶ Fantasy and crime. A master criminal who practices hypnotism and the invention of a device which can transfer human thoughts.

A DAUGHTER OF THE DRUIDS. By A.K.H.
HOPKINS, Mrs. Alice Kimball. [Writing as: A.K.H.]

Octavo, original grey-blue cloth, front cover designed in black, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece & two additional astrological illustrations. 297 pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, front fly leaf lacking; stamped "Martinist Order" on title leaf. Covers very slightly rubbed, a bright, very good copy. ¶ Historical fantasy novel set in 15th Century Cumbria, with much occultism, astrology and witchcraft. A rare book.

THE SACRED HERB.
HUME, Fergus.

Octavo, original dark green cloth titled in gray on spine & front panel, decorative device of a smoking thurible on front panel in gold, red and gray. 302 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard reproducing artwork by H.B. Matthews (a priestess, a man in a suit and clouds of smoke emanating from a thurible). Spine a trifle cocked, one corner with a small bump; a very good clean copy. ¶ Sacred herb from Easter Island used in occult rites to induce cataleptic trance leading to murder. Astral travel, Lemuria.

THE CHALDEAN MAGICIAN. An Adventure in Rome In The Reign of the Emperor Diocletian. From the German by Mary J. Safford.
ECKSTEIN, Ernst.

Small octavo, original decorated red boards titled and designed in black. 112 pp. Light rubbing to cloth, a very good clean copy. ¶ Historical novel with fantasy elements; the main character is Olbasanus, a sorceror of the 4th Century A.D. A translation of 'Der Chaldäische Zauberer'.