Newport Beach, Ca: Heru-Ra-Ha Lodge of the O.T.O., 1980. First Edition. Octavo, [24] pages, publisher's original pictorial yellow wraps. Illustrated in black-and-white. OYEZ, Autumn Equinox 1980, is an early and uncommon issue of the Thelemic journal published by Heru-Ra-Ha Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), the Southern California lodge closely associated.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. Book-Lover’s Eldorado Edition; Publisher’s Prospectus / Salesman’s Sample. Octavo, v, 28 pp., with unnumbered limitation leaf, photogravure frontispiece, and 15 additional photogravure plates, each retaining its captioned tissue guard. Bound in semi-limp full brown leather. Top edge gilt. An uncommon publisher’s prospectus or.....
Schippach, Pa: Johann M. Schünemann, 1853. 18mo, 114 pages, publisher's blind-stamped and gilt lettered brown cloth-covered boards. Text in German. Ein Spiegel der Taufe, mit Geist, mit Wasser, und mit Blut is a German-language Mennonite theological work by Heinrich Funck, devoted to the doctrine and meaning of Christian baptism. Organized.....
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 310 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original red cloth-covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest: Traditional Spanish Folk Literature in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado by Aurelio M. Espinosa.....
New York: Macoy, 1888. 32mo, 191 pages, publisher's original blind-stamped and gilt decorated blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. The Standard Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason by George E. Simons is an important nineteenth-century American Freemasonry manual covering the ritual.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. First Edition, Signed by the author. Octavo, 213 pages, publisher's original color pictorial wraps. Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America is Paul Stoller’s novel of migration, ambition, family, and cultural adaptation, centered on Issa Boureima, a young man from Niger who travels.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First American Edition. 12mo, i, 116 pages, publisher's original dust jacket with the original price unclipped. Publisher's original blind-stamped and gilt-lettered red cloth covered boards. The Trial of Jesus is John Masefield’s three-act biblical drama depicting the final hours of Christ, from the betrayal.....
Bombay: Subodha-Prakash Press, 1885. Second Edition, Revised, Edited and Reprinted for the Bombay Theosophical Publication Fund. Octavo, [4], xxxviii, [1], 226 pages, publisher's original brown cloth over paper covered boards. An important early English-language presentation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian philosophy and Raja.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. First Edition, Signed by the author. Octavo, xix, 377 pages, publisher's original gilt-decorated full green leather with raised bands to spine. Permanent silk place marker. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. The "Franklin Library" publisher's letter to collector is laid in. Travels is Michael.....
New York: Leavitt and Company, 1851. First Edition. Octavo, ix, 276 pages, publisher's original red leather with ornate gilt decoration to both boards and spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white engravings. The Irving Offering: A Token of Affection, for 1851 is a richly illustrated American literary annual published in.....
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1888. Illustrated by John Leech. Later Edition. Octavo, viii, [2], 406 pages, bound in quarter brown leather over marbled boards with the binder’s stamp of Spink & Gabor, N.Y., on the rear endpaper. Spine with raised bands, gilt-lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1923. Illustrated with Photographs and Sketches by Major J. H. NOrton. First Edition. Octavo, ix, 212 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. Days and Nights with Indian Big Game is Major-General A. E. Wardrop’s account of hunting and sporting.....
NP: [Privately Printed], 1904. First Edition, Signed by the author. Octavo, [1], 116 leaves with text printed on one side only, original printed wraps. With some ex-library markings. Notes on Ecclesiology by John B. Anderson is an uncommon theological work examining the nature, organization, doctrine, government, ministry, and practices of.....
Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1931. First Edition Thus. Tall octavo, ii, 553–692 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered and decorated green cloth covered boards. Illustrated in black-and-white. The Theosophist, Vol. LII, No. 11: H. P. B. Centenary Number is a special commemorative issue published at Adyar, Madras, in August.....
Chicago: Judy Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo, 159, [1] pages, publisher's original pictorial dust jacket with the original price unclipped. Publisher's original orange cloth-covered boards lettered and decorated in black. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. The Boxer by Dan M. Gordon is a comprehensive early American guide to the history.....
London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935. First Edition, Roberta Coldren Dyer's copy with her bookplate and ink stamp. Octavo, 323 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered orange cloth covered boards. A previous owner, possibly Roberta Coldren Dyer, has affixed a color illustration to the front board. The Winged Bull: A Romance of.....
Dallas, Texas: Royal Publishing Company, 1961. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Roberta Coldren Dyer to Dean Peerman, noted theologian, editor, and longtime member of the editorial staff of The Christian Century. Octavo, 70 pages, publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original pictorial grey cloth covered boards. Message.....
Cleveland, Ohio: The Universe Publishing Company, ND circa 1890. The author’s own copy, with his “Ex Libris L. A. Lambert” bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. 18mo, 216 pages, publisher's original green cloth covered boards with black lettering. A late nineteenth-century work of Roman Catholic apologetics in which the Rev.....
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918. First Edition. Octavo, xxii, 270 pages, publisher's original blue cloth covered boards. Spiritualism: Its History, Phenomena and Doctrine is one of the classic early twentieth-century studies of the Spiritualist movement by British psychical researcher J. Arthur Hill. Published in 1918, the work traces the.....
Boston: 1871. First separate edition; offprint from the Boston Society of Natural History. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Dr. Elliott Coues, whose contemporary writings on intermembral homology are discussed at length in the text and helped prompt Wilder to reconsider aspects of his own anatomical interpretation. Octavo, 88.....
London: George Redway, 1898. Octavo, 24, l, 438 pages. Publisher’s original gilt-lettered and decorated red cloth-covered boards. The Spirits’ Book is the foundational text of Spiritism and the most influential work of the French educator, philosopher, and spiritualist Allan Kardec. First published in French in 1857, the book presents a......
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1925. First Edition. Octavo, xxxii, 705 pages, publisher's original red cloth covered boards. Previous owner's neat bookplate and ink stamp in several places. The Theosophical Movement, 1875–1925: A History and a Survey is a comprehensive account of the first fifty years of modern.....
New York: Charles H. Clayton & Co., 1869. First Edition. 18mo, 16 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered red wraps. First published in 1869, The Worship of the Body is a scarce Episcopal devotional and ceremonial pamphlet intended to guide lay worshippers in the proper bodily expressions of reverence during church services.....
Paris: Imprimé par E. Thunot et Cie, 1858. First Edition. Octavo, 76 pages, original blue paper wraps. Some edges remain uncut and unopened. Text in French. A substantial nineteenth-century study of the history and development of ancient medicine by Joseph-Pierre Pétrequin, the noted French surgeon and medical historian. In Études.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo, xxi, 944 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket with the original price unclipped. Publisher's original blind-stamped gold boards. Published posthumously and edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick gathers.....