Chicago: Argus Books, 1928. 21,[3]pp. Small octavo. Printed wrappers, with printed label. Faint vertical crease, a few smudges, but very good. A characteristic catalogue from the first decade of Abramson's Argus Bookshop, offering an idiosyncratic selection of progressive or esoteric literature, fine books and limited editions, and above-counter publications on...
Frankfurt: Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii, 1612. [4], 471 [i.e. 487 (due to many errors in numbering in the late portion of the text)],[1 (blank)]pp. Small quarto. Slightly later plain full calf (visible waste sheets from an English astronomical gazette used in the binding are for the year 1635). Alchemical...
Allahabad: Printed at the Allahabad Mission Press, 1871. vi,172pp. Large octavo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Title printed in red, green and black. Text in double columns. Illustrations. Crown of spine has shallow loss, uniform toning to textblock, a few hand smudges, but a good copy. First edition. A translation...
[London: The Author/Artist, ca. 1997]. [1],10,[1]pp. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm). Loose sheets, printed on rectos only. Enclosed in plastic zip-top bag. Fine. First edition. Here the prominent designer and educator undertakes an unconventional analysis of objects, features and events in a London neighborhood, ranging from "Phone Box Calling Cards,"...
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1851. vi,260pp. Small octavo. Brown cloth, decorated in blind, spine elaborately decorated in gilt. Ink name, lower fore-tip of upper board skinned, still a good, bright, tight copy. The 28th thousand, revised and enlarged, with a "Preface to the Twenty-Sixth Edition." The first edition appeared...
York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington ... Newcastle upon Tyne: reprinted by Order of the Proprietor, 1759. [2],42pp. Octavo. 19th century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, partially untrimmed. Bookplate, extremities rubbed, scattered foxing and old vertical crease (prior to binding); a good copy. Denoted the "Third Edition,"...
New York: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1928. 12mo. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait. Cloth very faintly soiled, otherwise near fine. First edition. A decent association copy, with the bookplate of George Winslow Plummer, founder and Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. [2],xii,[2],631,[3]pp. Quarto. Gilt burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Many facsimiles. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. First edition, trade issue. Slightly shaken, cloth somewhat rubbed and lightly marked, but a good copy.
Cambridge: Types Ac Sumptibus Academicis, 1816. 112pp. Disbound. Very good. First edition. A relatively early consideration of the attempt at interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics via the Rosetta stone by the Cambridge linguist.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. Gilt cloth. Slight offset to endsheets from jacket flaps, spine very slightly cocked, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, in very good, modestly soiled dust jacket. First edition. Biographical sketches of serial and professional murderers: William Burke, J.-B. Troppmann, G. J. Smith, Henri Désiré Landru, and.....
London: Constable & Company, 1919. Drab green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark green. Folding frontis. A couple corners bumped, one leaf roughly opened at fore-edge, small ink drop to fore-edge, otherwise very good. First edition, British issue, comprised of sheets from the U.S. printing with a UK title leaf...
[Norfolk]: New Directions, [1954]. Cloth. Frontis, illustrations. First edition, U.S. issue. Two old tape ghosts on front pastedown, covers slightly bowed, edges faintly flecked, otherwise a good or better copy, in a moderately soiled dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends.
San Francisco: Mrs. Olivia Kingsland, [nd. but ca 1910]. 20pp. Printed wrapper. Some creasing at corners, divinity library duplicate release stamps on upper wrapper, a good to very good copy. First (?) edition. OCLC locates 14 copies spread between two entries (which seem to refer to the same publication, although...
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1869. 139,[1]pp. Small octavo. Three-quarter crimson crushed morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Trace of wear at crown and toe of spine, front free endsheet bears several tipped-on clippings and is neatly detached at the gutter, otherwise a fine copy. The uncommon first edition of this well-known monograph.....
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [ 1969]. Cloth. First edition, clothbound issue. With an initialed author's compliments card taped to the free endsheet. A bit bowed, else near fine in a dust jacket with flaring to top edge.
Garches, France: Editions Arnaud Seydoux, [1985]. Two volumes. [6],70,[6]pp. plus fifty plates; 73,[1] pp. plus folding plate. Small quarto. Stiff printed wrappers. A few stray marks to wrappers, otherwise about fine. First edition. The tinted plates reproduce the cards with great fidelity.
Venetiis: In Typographica Pinelliana, 1625. [12],157,[4]pp. (lacking preliminary blank; [cross]4 bound out of place after pi4, and wanting the terminal signature a1-4, the latter printing "Posteritati ex rebus à Leonardo Donato Venetiarum..."). Quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Engraved title and 32 engraved plates. Woodcut historiated initials and decorative...
London: Printed for R. Basset ... 1702. [24],458,[6]pp. Octavo. Old paneled calf, rebacked at an early date to style. Extremities worn and joints a trifle weak, occasional scattered foxing, and mild discolorations, lower blank corner of C3 torn away, and shallow marginal losses to b2, still a good, sound copy...
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. Cloth. Scattered foxing, but a very good copy in good, price-clipped dust jacket, wanting several chips along the top edge. First edition of this autobiography, in part. Calder-Marshall records here his encounters with Crowley, Victor Neuburg and Raoul Loveday.
New Hyde Park: University Books, [1962]. Large octavo. Cloth. Photographs. First US edition (first published in the UK in 1951). Bibliography compiled by Edward N. Fitzgerald. A very good copy in near very good, lightly shelfworn dust jacket with internally mended short edge-tear.
London [etc]: Rider & Company, [1951]. 316pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Plates. Second impression. Includes a preliminary bibliography by Gerald Yorke. Extremities a bit rubbed, small splashmark on spine affecting a couple of letters in the subtitle, a good reading copy.
New York & London: Johnson Reprint, [1968]. x,[2],496pp. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. About fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Photo-offset facsimile of the full text of the original 1891 classic.
Boston & New York: William White & Co./American News Company, 1869. 325,[1],8pp. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A couple minor rubs to spine, front endsheets discolored, otherwise a very nice, bright copy. First edition of the only novel by the influential American mesmerist, later spiritualist. In spite...
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1985]. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. Very near fine in dust jacket. First edition of the anthropologist's first non-specialist title, and the source-work for the 1988 Wes Craven film adaptation.
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., [1898]. Red cloth, elaborately decorated in black, t.e.g. Frontis and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. Light rubbing to edges, inner hinges cracking, otherwise very good. First edition of this exploration of the bird deity motif in a number of cultures. Signed by the author.....
