Jacksonville, Oregon: Anja Bound. 2015. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, double fillet in gilt to both boards, heraldic device to upper board. Black-and-gilt endpapers. Pp. 43, [3]. 6 full-page monochrome illustrations by Stefan Eggeler. A fine copy without dust jacket..... More
No Place: Three Hands Press. 2016. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth decorated pictorially in copper on front panel, the spine titled in copper. 184 pp. 1,000 copies printed. Interior book design by Joseph Uccello. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket designed by Jim..... More
Philadelphia: Owlswick Press. 1976. First Printing of this New Edition. Octavo. Red cloth with small gilt design on front cover, gilt titles on spine, in color dust jacket. [xviii], 140 pages. Colour frontispiece and Interior black & white illustrations by Tim Kirk. A fine copy in dust jacket, lightly rubbed..... More
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2014. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition. Octavo, original glossy printed wrappers. 479 pp. Uncorrected proof copy of the First Printing of the First Edition. A fine copy in the original wrappers of a very scarce book. ¶ Collects 26 short stories, with Notes at..... More
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. Advance Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition. Octavo, original glossy printed wrappers. 485 pp. Uncorrected proof copy of the First Printing of the First Edition. A fine copy in the original wrappers of a very scarce book. ¶ Collects 28 short stories, with Notes at..... More
Bearsville, NY: Retort Press. 1950. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed boards with taped cloth spine (as issued); in Dust Jacket. 138 pp. Illustrated throughout by Lowell Naeve. Minor stains; a very good copy in a good dust jacket that shows some staining and has pronounced chips, primarily..... More
New York: Published by Millia D. Moss, 181 W. 4th St, 1919. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small square octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled at spine. 36 pp (inclusive of covers). illustrated throughout in black & white; numerous ads. Cover design by Horace Brodzky. Staples a touch rusted, chipping along..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. First Separate Hardcover Edition. First separate hardcover edition. Quarto. Original black cloth spine with gilt titles and green textured paper boards. 25 pages, colophon. Book designed and printed by T.M. Cleland. Color illustration on title page. Issued in an edition limited to 300 numbered..... More
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine, in printed dust jacket with small pegasus design by Sidney H. Sime. 339 pages. Chiswick Press printer's device on last page. Mild tanning to..... More
Springfield, MA: Linweave Limited Editions. 1932. First Edition (& 1st printing). First Edition. Quarto, original printed wrappers. 4 pp. Illustrated with a Photograph by Anton Bruehl, designed by Elmer Adler. Printed on Linweave Text Wove Ivory Antique Finish paper. Stab-holes on spine (possibly disbound from a larger volume?), a very..... More
[UK]: [The Artist], 1941. First Edition, The Rare First Issue. Octavo, softcover (8 x 5 inches), stapled at spine. Original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper reproducing in colour an early design of the first trump, 'The Magician' (when the deck was eventually published the title of this card was changed..... More
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Lady Cyntia Asquith (writing as "C. Greene") to Miss Sarah Briggs Latimore on behalf of Sir James Barrie. One leaf inscribed on both sides, approx. 60 words. On Stationary of Stanway, Cheltenham, dated march 11th 1933, with original mailing envelope and stamp. Lady Cyntha writes to Mss..... More
Everett, PA: Fantasy Publications. No Date [1934]. First Edition (& 1st printing). 12mo, original printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. 38 pp. This copy is SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author to a very close friend: "Dear Drew: Here's to the "Divine Illusion" - long may it prevail! As always - Clark. 1934"..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. First Separate Edition. Quarto, original printed paper-covered boards, bound up (likely privately) in half sheep (nicely done). pp 655-692, Issued as an offprint , an "Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology". With 11 plates and 4 figures. Three..... More
Norwood, Mass, Etc. George H. Morrill & Co. / E.J. Shattuck Co., No Date [Circa 1910]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Oblong octavo, 14 x 24 cm, original publisher's brown cloth with an elaborate celtic knotwork border in darker brown enclosing lettering in black and red on front panel, the..... More
London: The Modern Publishing Company, 6 Farrington Avenue, No Date [mid-1930's]. First Edition. Small octavo, original slate-grey paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in black. Unpaginated (circa 250 pp). Issued without proper endpapers, the paste-down leaves are advertisements, as is the first leaf and the verso of the title page..... More
London: Centaur Press. 1934. First Edition. Octavo, original yellow buckram cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. Issued in a limited edition of 60 copies of which 50 are for sale; this copy unnumbered. 84 pp, frontispiece and two additional full-page plates by Easton printed on white coated paper. This..... More
![Item #313106 THE SABAZIAN TORCH [in] THE OCCULT OBSERVER, Vol II, No Four. Andrew A. CHUMBLEY](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/313106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689714782)
UK: Neptune Press Psychic Press Ltd., [1993]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Single Issue of this magazine. 56 pp. Contains the first appearance in print of Andrew D. Chumbley's THE SABAZIAN TORCH [4 pages], a very early article (his 7th overall), issued just after the publication..... More
Berlin & Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1928. First Edition (& 1st printing). Original Wraps. Octavo, original thick paper wrappers. 286 pp + 9 plates. Text in German. From the library of Dr. Charles Muses, with some writing in pen & pencil on one advertising leaf at rear, some..... More
Kjøbenhavn [Copenhagen]: Aschehoug dansk forlag [etc]. 1935-1936. First Edition (& 1st printing). Original Wraps. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Two volumes. 336 + 372 pp. illus., tables, diagrams. Text in GermanFrom the Library of Dr. Charles A. Muses, with some pencil notes by him in the margins; a very nice clean..... More
London: Eric Grant, 6 Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.2. [1937]. First Edition. Octavo, original orange cloth lettered and ruled in black on spine panel, all edges trimmed. 314 pp. Contains 'Ritual' by Arthur Machen. Cloth very lightly dust-soiled and marked, corners a bit soft; a very good, clean copy..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1979]. First American Edition. Octavo, original blue boards with black cloth spine lettered in silver, front panel stamped in blind. 261 pp. The correct first US edition, with the "First Edition" statement and code "BCDE" on copyright (HBJ did not use a code to "A"..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel.stamped in blind on upper cover, dark blue endpapers. 238 pp. A very good clean copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, slightly rubbed and scuffed, minor wear at spine tips. A pretty nice..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First American Edition. Otavo, original grey boards with grey cloth spine blocked in black and lettered in silver. 250 pp. Very good clean copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, s;ight sotting to spine on jacket, minor wear, price corner($3.75) intact. A pretty nice..... More
North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2004-2016. Four issues, original wrappers. Issues 3, 5, 6, & 8; Diagonal corner crease to front cover of Issue No. 3, otherwise these are fine copies. All Issues of Wormwood are now Discontinued from the publisher. More