Twenty-five fluorite pieces (24 engraved runes - Furthark alphabet), each approx. 34 mm x 24 mm x 6 mm, in individual cloth compartments within a larger cloth compartment. Twenty-four of the pieces have been etched in in green with a rune, and the twenty-fifth is blank [known as "Odin's Rune"].....
Chicago: Regan Publishing House, 1907. Octavo, original dark blue cloth boards with title stamped in gilt upper board, title in gilt on spine, pp 330. Scuffing and rubbing to boards. Previous owner's bookplate (Claude Toby) front endpaper. Text clean. Very good condition. Discussion of degrees of life, referring to scripture.....
Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publ. House, 1973. Octavo, original cloth boards, pp 54. Theosophical bookshop label front free endpapr. Near-fine condition. Discussion of the 'Elder Brothers of Humanity' by one of the founders of theosophy. Originally published in 1912.
London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1920. Repr., small octavo, original yellow cloth boards with black lettering, pp 145. Small mark upper board. Previous owner's signature, dated 1921. Pages toned. Very good condition. Theosophical work by one of the central early theosophists. Annie Besant (1847 -1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason.....
London and Wakefield: W. Nicholson & Sons, c. 1900. Octavo, original burgundy cloth boards lettered in gilt with gilt vignette of Napoleon and blind-stamped decoration upper board, titled and decorated in gilt to spine, frontis portrait plate of Napoleon, b&w illus, pp 192. N.d., c. 1890. Pages toned. Some rubbing.....
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 1st ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, bibliography, index. pp xi, 179. Pages toned. Very goood condition A history of the Gnostics and their alternative history and traditions in relation to the established church. Written to accompany a 1987 four-part drama-documentary series made for.....
Pretoria: Institute for Theosophical Publicity, 1951. Large octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, frontis portrait plate of the author, b&w plates, pp 431. Dustjacket chipped to edges, now repaired and protected. Previous owner's inscription front free endpaper. Toned to edges of pages. Light marking to boards. Very good condition. Uncommon. Autobiography.....
Pittsburgh: St Lynn's Press. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp xxii, 345. Near-fine condition. Astronomy of the ancients. Argues for a binary-star solar system.
London: The British College, 1932. Octavo, original printed wraps, b&w plates, pp 80, i. Small rust marks inner edge, from interior stapled binding. Very good condition. Articles include Alleged Communications from F.W.H. Myers, The Road to Immortality, Invisible Exteriorisation from Rudi Scchneider, and A Book Test at a distance of.....
Brisbane: Daily Grail, 2008. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 250. Near fine condition.
Boise, Idaho: Great Ad-ventures, 2001. First printing. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wraps, pp 315. Some underlining and highlighting, otherwise good. Esoteric novel. A quest for the Third Key of Communion.
London: Aquarian Press, 1961. Octavo, original cloth boards, frontis author portrait plate, bibliography, index, pp xi, 180. Cloth faded with few small marks, internally clean, very good condition. A serious study of hypnotism, undertaken for the British Parapsychological Society. Examines the history of the paranormal and many cases, often skeptically.....
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1947. K. Alexander. Subscriber's Ed., octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket with closed tear to upper front and some loss upper spine, pp 253. Theosophical Bookshop sticker front free endpaper. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. Essays on philosophy, including the Neoplatonists and the Mystic Tradition...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1951. Introd. John Mulholland. The new and enlarged edition, with 266 illustrations. Roy octavo, original illustrated boards, b&w author porttrait frontis plate, many b&w illustrations, pp xxii, 738. Ex-library, with usual markings, very worn to the edges of the spine, corners lightly rubbed. Text and illustrations.....
London: Swedenborg Society, 1906. Limited Edition, numer 34 of 500 copies, quarto, black cloth boards with gilt-lettered leather spine label, top edge gilt, pp xvii, 743. Previously rebound: binding very firm, new endpapers. Previous owner's bookpate front endpaper (dated 1907). Some scuffing to boards, small rubbed areas to edges. Text.....
Berkeley (Calif.): Image Comics, 2015. Large octavo, pictorial wraps, b&w illus throughout, 1088 pages. Light creasing to corners, very good condition. Omnibus edition of Walking Dead comics. First printing thus. Issues 97 to 144.
UK: Charles Skilton, ( 1952). Limited edition, octavo, original half-leather binding, blue morocco with gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, b&w plates, pp xvi, 254 plus 40 b&w plates. Limited edition: number 184 of 675 numbered copies. Publisher not stated (Charles Skilton. 1952). Some marking rear board otherwise clean, very.....
Eerde, Holland: Star Publishing Trust, ( 1928). Octavo, original maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt, author portrait frontis plate, pp 100, light water mark ffeps. Small Theosophical Society bookshop label front free endpaper. Near-fine condition. Collection of early teachings by philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Adyar, Madras: Theosophical Publ. House, 1963. Octavo, original cloth boards, pp 95. Near-fine condition. Discussion of theosophy, by one of the founding memebers. 8th impression of the 1902 original.
London: Rider & Co., ( 1926). 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, pp xiii, 222. N.d, first edition (1926). Boards lightly canted, corners rubbed, scattered foxing. Inscription front endpaper. Good condition. Rare. Spiritualism and mediumship, by a British lecturer and author in the cause of spiritualism and psychic research...
New Jersey: Planetwork Press, 2012. Octavo, stiff illustrated wraps, pp 492, xii, apart from small pin-hole through several earlier pages, the book is in very good condition. Novel, by the creator of the Wingmakers. "Deep in a mystical forest Hidden by centuries of myth and technologies of stealth, Three monolithic.....
Glastonbury: The Lost Library, 2010. Octavo, pictorial wraps, many b&w illus, pp viii, 254. Near-fine condition. The classic and unparalleled text on mazes and labyrinths. Wonderfully ilustrated throughout, the book charts the history of many different types of maze and labyrinth. Facsimile edition, first published in 1922.
Philadelphia: Academy of the New Church, 1904. Octavo, original red cloth bards with gilt (partial) title on spine and on upper board, pp 194. Gilt to spine dulled, gilt to upper board very bright. Some markings to the edges of the boards, corners lighly bumped, bottom rear corner rubbed. Some.....
Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1904. Octavo, original decorated cloth boards, b&w frontis portrait (Olcott and Blavatsky), pp viii, 444. Front free endpaper removed, Top edge of title page clipped, ith no loss of text. Small mark to the edge of front board. Occasional small pencilled annotation. Very good condition. Early.....
Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1954. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w frontis, pp xii, 476. Top corners bumped, very good condition. Early years of the Theosophical Society, including time spent in India.