Amsterdam: M.L. Huizenga, No Date [1960's?]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers. 52 pp. Bookseller's Catalogue listing 1820 items in a variety of differmnt languages. This copy came from the library of mystical philosopher Charles A. Muses and the front cover is heavily marked up by him..... More
Bruxelles: Librairie van de Graff-Dopere, N.D. [circa 1940. First Edition (& 1st printing). Tall octavo, original pictorial wrappers with image of a witch on a broomstick on front panel. Text in French. Dampstained sometime in the distant past, rusting from staples causing some loss to paper, still fairly sound, entirely..... More
London: Maggs Bros. December 1969. First Edition (& 1st printing). Original wrappers. Octavo. 40 pages, b&w frontispiece plus 8 b&w plates at end of volume. Index. A bit of excess binder's glue has caused slight pulling to the inner front cover at the inner hinge, with hte loss of a...... More
London: John M. Watkins, 21, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2. 1950-53-56. First Editions (& 1st printings). Octavo, three volumes, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. Catalogues Numbers 146 (Sept, 1950), 148 (1953) and 149 (1956). Three separate catalogues from Watkins, specialists in the occult. 36 + 32 + 28..... More
New York: Burt Franklin. 1970. Reprint. Reprint of the 1923 Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Burton. Index at rear. Upper rear foredge of cloth bumped, otherwise a fine clean copy. ¶ Includes a brief biography of Burton, a British..... More
Paris: Lucien Dorbon. 1912. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Octavo, three volumes, bound in mid 20th-Century green paper-covered boards with grey cloth spines, black leather labels on spines lettered and ruled in gilt, original wrappers bound in. 531 + 533 + 767 pp. From the occult library of Edward..... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, the boards stamped in black, the spine in gilt. 107 pp. Illustrated. 500 copies printed, published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks..... More
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022. Second Tartarus Press Edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperbound). 279 pp., Illustrated. Originally issued by Tartarus Press in 2015 in a limited edition of 250 copies published in collaboration with Caermaen Books, this is the first paperbound edition. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers..... More
Oxford: Oxford: At The Clarendon Press. 1983. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 712 pp., photographic frontispiece of Doyle. Issued as The Soho Bibliographies XXIII. A fine copy in a very slightly used dust jacket, small closed tear on rear..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, 16 East 46th Street, 1953. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers. 99 pp. Small stains to covers; a very good clean copy. An important and scarce item. ¶ Rare Book Catalogue, with Prices, issued by Kraus in 1953. 655 Items. Part I: Alchemy..... More
Oxford & New York: Oxford Univerisity Press. 1997. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original blue boards titled and with the Oxford seal in gilt on spine panel. 431 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶An encyclopedic guide to Edwardian Fiction, with over 800 author entries..... More
London: Derek Verschoyle. 1954. Second Edition. Octavo, original grey cloth, gilt titles on spines, red labels. xxi, 487 + 598 pp. Covers and backstrips lightly rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Contents crisp, clean and unmarked. Quite a nice set, lacking the original plain printed dust jackets. ¶ Reprint of the 1906..... More
Mansfield Center, CT: Martino Publishing, ca. 2000. Facsimile of the First Edition of 1943. Octavo, 2 volumes. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spines. xv, 820 pp. A fine set without dust jackets, as issued. ¶ Much needed reprint of the rare catalogue issued in an edition of 40..... More
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 7, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C., 1894. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers, stitched on spine. [24] pp [inclusive of covers]. Extra slip laid in "ENGLISH BOOKS AT ENGLISH PRICES. 18 pages of books, 1 page of pamphlets, plus Magazines, Tracts, Leaflets and Photographs..... More
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2025. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial cloth. 314 pp. illustrated. 350 copies printed. This copy is signed Mark Valentine on the title leaf. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Mark Valentine’s Borderlands and Otherworlds explores supernatural fiction of the..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition. Octavo, original burgundy cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 179 pp, Frontispiece (Virginia Woolf, 1938, from a photography by Gisele Freund), 3 additional plates and two illustrations in the text. Issued as 'The Soho Bibliographies', Volume IX. A fine..... More