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ASHMOLE, Elias [editor]. Thomas Norton, George 
Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Dastin, Abraham 
Andrews, William Backhouse, Thomas Charnock, John 
Dee, John Gower, Edward Kelley, John Lydgate, et 
alia. THEATRUM CHEMICUM BRITANNICUM. Containing 
Severall Poeticall Pieces of our Famous English 
Philosophers, who have Written the Hermetique 
Mysteries in their Owne Ancient Language. 
Faithfully Collected into one Volume, with 
Annotations Thereon. VELLUM EDITION, Limited to 
35 Copies Only. Seattle, Washington: Published by 
Ouroboros Press 2011 [actually, 2012] Limited 
Edition. Stout Octavo, 6 x 9 inches. Full 
Imperial Vellum, with gilt-stamped spine bands 
and central ‘grotesque’ ornament to boards, 
scarlet leather spine label, silk bookmark, 
hand-marbled endpapers and silk closure ties. 528 
pages. Rubricated title page in red and black 
ink. Illustrated with alchemical engravings, 
ornamental grotesques, dragons, trees, and 
fleurons. Includes the 11 x 14 folding plate of 
George Ripley’s Wheel. A fine copy. The Vellum 
Bound edition was limited to only 35 copies and 
was sold out in advance of publication. ¶ The 
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum is a major 
collection of English alchemical texts which 
encapsulate the arcana of the Magnum Opus in 
poetic form. Originally gathered from several 
rare medieval manuscripts by Elias Ashmole, the 
text represents the largest collection of verse 
treating of the production of the Philosopher’s 
Stone to be brought together in one volume. Here 
we find well known names in the alchemical corpus 
among whom are included; Thomas Norton, George 
Ripley, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Daston, Pearce the 
Black Monke, Richard Carpenter, Abraham Andrews, 
Thomas Charnock, William Bloomefield, Edward 
Kelley, John Dee, Thomas Robinson, William 
Backhouse, John Gower, John Lydgate, W. Redman 
and several anonymous authors. This who’s who of 
English alchemists is placed in historical 
context by a Prolegomena by Ashmole, which 
supports his thesis that England may be proud of 
its alchemical literary heritage. In addition 
Ashmole has provided ample annotations and 
commentary to each of the texts as supplementary 
material in the concluding chapter of the book. 
Originally published in 1652, this new complete 
edition of the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum goes 
beyond the mere reprinting of the original pages 
as past facsimiles have done. Using the original 
errata sheets provided by Ashmole, the entire 
text has been corrected and reset in a more 
readable typeface and features clear 
reproductions of the original engravings produced 
by Robert Vaughan. In addition, this edition 
features a more complete version of the Breviary 
of Natrurall Philosophy by Thomas Charnock by 
employing a complete manuscript of the text not 
available to Ashmole at the time. The text has a 
new introduction by William Kiesel and a full 
bibliography of alchemical and bibliographic 
materials used in researching the text. A major 
production. Fine. Full Vellum.  Was $1,250.00, now $850.00

BLACKWOOD, Algernon. INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES. First 
Edition, Colonial Issue, in Dust Jacket. London: 
Macmillan and Company 1914. First Colonial 
Edition. Octavo, original light blue 
paper-covered boards stamped in darker blue 
(vertical stripes and wreaths binding), gilt 
titles. 366 pp. + 8 pp publisher's catalogue 
inserted at rear, dated 5.7.14. Issued as volume 
642 in Macmillan's Empire Library. The 
publisher's catalogue bound in at the end of the 
text is for MACMILLAN'S EMPIRE LIBRARY OF 
COPYRIGHT BOOKS, "For Circulation only in India 
and the British Dominions over the Seas". Titles 
up to number 640 are listed, and all volumes are 
available in paper covers at 2s. 6d.; or 'cloth' 
covers at 3s.6d. per copy. Minute chipping at 
spine head and mild tanning to the spine panel, a 
nice copy, very good, in the very rare dust 
jacket which has a portrait of the author on the 
front panel. The jacket is frayed and worn along 
the edges and there is some internal repair to 
the spine panel, where a missing section has been 
neatly reinforced with matching paper; very 
neatly done. Both front and rear jacket flaps 
have separated and have been re-affixed with 
internal paper, there is a small piece of tape on 
the inside of the rear flap. Overall, a good 
example of the extremely rare dust jacket. 
Colonial editions typically preceded the 
regularly published domestic UK editions but tend 
to suffer the ravages of the Colonies; even 
simply nice copies are very scarce, nice copies 
in jackets are rare. ¶ Blackwood's sixth short 
story collection, written at the height of his 
powers. Stories included are 'The Regeneration of 
Lord Ernie'; 'The Sacrifice'; 'The Damned'; 'A 
Descent into Egypt'; and 'Wayfarers'. S. T. Joshi 
has stated that "his work is more consistently 
meritorious than any weird writer's except 
Dunsany's" and that this particular short story 
collection "may be the premier weird collection 
of this or any other century". Was $850.00, now $550.00

BRODIE-INNES, J.W. THE DEVIL'S MISTRESS. London: 
William Rider and Son, Limited No date [circa 
1920]. Reprint. Reprint, first issued in 1915. 
Small octavo, original publisher's light brown 
boards titled and decorated in black on spine and 
front panel. 357 pp + [3] pp ads at rear. Minor 
browning to the text block, but a fine, fresh 
copy in the original colour pictorial dust jacket 
which is lightly browned, has just a touch of 
wear at the spine tips and two minor internal 
tape repairs and a old price sticker (2/) on the 
spine panel. A wonderful copy in the beautiful 
and rare dust jacket depicting Isabel Goudie on 
the front cover and the 'man in red' (the devil) 
on the spine. ¶ An excellent historical novel of 
witchcraft set in 17th Century Scotland, it tells 
the tale of Isabel (Isobel) Goudie, a real person 
who was tried for witchcraft in 1662. With much 
folklore and supernaturalism, it is one of the 
best novels of witchcraft. The author was a 
practicing occultist, a member of the Hermetic 
Order of the Golden Dawn and head of the Amen-Ra 
Temple in Edinburgh. Was $750.00, now $500.00

CHUMBLEY, Andrew D. THE SATYR'S SERMON. By the 
Hand and Eye of Alogos. Deluxe edition, bound in 
full morocco, with hand-made oak box, accompanied 
by a sacramental talisman of the Corpus Satyri. 
No Place: Xoanon Publishing MMIX [2009] First 
Edition, First Printing. Small oblong quarto, 
original full brown morocco. 84 pp. Hand-printed 
in full letterpress in red, black and gold. The 
Deluxe edition, bound in full morocco, strictly 
limited to 111 numbered copies. In a specially 
hand-made oak box, accompanied by a sacramental 
talisman of the Corpus Satyri, as issued. A fine 
copy in box with Talisman. ¶ Completed in early 
2004, the Sermon formed a portion of the "Monadic 
Transmission" series of texts originally issued 
in hand-written, hand-illustrated editions of one 
copy only. This unique grimoire concerns the 
sorcerous precept of Unfettered Desire, as 
expounded in parable form by the twin sexual 
hypostases of the Sabbatic Agapae. The book gives 
voice to a connubial dialectic patterned upon 26 
aphoristic formulae or "Sermons" and their 
accompanying calligraphic sigils. As a whole, the 
book exposits diverse formulae of magical 
adoration, invoking the eternal mystae of The 
Beloved. The original 2004 manuscript of 'The 
Satyr's Sermon' was accompanied by a sigilised 
communion wafer divided into four parts -- the 
'Corpus Satyri'. The talisman that was made for 
the deluxe version of the book is based on the 
original.  Was $1,250.00, now $950.00

11.  DERLETH, August. TWENTY YEARS OF WRITING, 
1926-1946. Sauk City: Arkham House. 1946. First 
Edition, First Printing. First edition. Small 
stapled booklet, 24 pp, with photo frontispiece. 
Two tiny edgetears to overlapping fore-edges 
which may turn into a chip if you look at it a 
bit too hard, light browning, otherwise a very 
good copy. One of the rarer pieces of Arkham 
House ephemera, not mentioned in any of the early 
bibliographies and never officially listed in the 
Arkham House canon. Was $350.00, now $250.00

HOCKLEY, Frederick. EXPERIMENTUM. Potens Magna in 
Occult Philosophy. Compiled and Scribed by 
Frederick Hockley. Bound with A Brief Essay 
Concerning Experimentum by Dan Harms. Transcript 
& Translation of the Text Prepared & Annotated by 
Dan Harms. No Place [UK]: The Society of Esoteric 
Endeavour. No Date [2012]. First Edition, First 
Printing. Quarto, original publisher's half blue 
sheepskin leather over marbled paper boards, the 
spine panel titled and decorated in gilt. Housed 
in cloth slipcase edged with same marbled paper 
used for the boards with a row of gilt decoration 
on either side, felt lined. Issued in a limited 
edition of 100 hand-numbered copies, this being 
copy No. 55. 33pp of full colour plates 
reproducing Hockley’s lavishly illustrated 
manuscript, plus 37pp of text by Dan Harms who 
gives a brief Introduction, a full transcript of 
the manuscript (Hockley’s calligraphy looks 
beautiful, but can be hard to read), plus 
commentary and a bibliography. A fine copy in a 
fine slipcase. Accompanying the book is a small 
folder, [6] pp, self wrappers, sewn with red 
ribbon on spine, containing a higher quality 
reproduction of one of the talismans from the MS 
embellished with gold, silver and copper metallic 
dies, along with the transcribed text and comment 
on the talisman. Who knows if it was Hockley's 
intent but the metallic inks add another 
dimension to the image. The paths with wording 
appear to float above the background. Such subtle 
visual effects were frequently utilised in 
magical work. These folders were produced in a 
very small number and are much rarer then the 
book itself. ¶ A facsimile reproduction of an 
original Hockley manuscript housed in the Harry 
Price collection, Senate House Library, 
University of London. Collects a number of 
rituals, giving some a powerful visual form, akin 
to a Mandala. In the final ritual, a perilous 
invocation of Oberion, Hockley records the 
appearance of the spirit in a grotesque form - 
reminiscent of Edvard Munch’s "The Scream". This 
shows Hockley to be an occult artist of a status 
hitherto unrealised in publications of his work. 
One wonders if the references to the ritual use 
of cannabis and opium in Experimentum signal 
tools that Hockley used. There are magical 
procedures for causing the destruction of 
enemies, routing out thievery, the magical 
protection of places and buildings, magical 
fascination, fulfilling sexual desire and a 
perilous invocation of the spirit Oberion. There 
is a strong folkish element hand in hand with 
complex ritual. Hockley gives some spells a 
striking visual forms. Throughout he employs 
calligraphic hands, rather than his usual 
handwriting, making this a visually impressive 
volume. The original manuscript had clearly, at 
some point, been stored in damp conditions. There 
is discolouration, show through and offsetting. 
This has all been reproduced in facsimile. As the 
pages are printed Giclée process, not as photos 
of a book, but so it appears that you actually 
hold an old bound manuscript. The Transcript and 
Commentary is given in a readably calligraphic 
hand sympathetic with Hockley’s styles. A tinted 
paper is used, so the latter section does not 
visually jar with the appearance of age of the 
facsimile section. Dan Harms painstakingly 
searches out Hockley's sources and this throws 
light upon that early 19th Century British occult 
milieu, the Society of the Mecurii, concerning 
whom there is considerable interest. Was $550.00, now $350.00

HOWARD, Michael. CHILDREN OF CAIN. A Study of 
Modern Traditional Witches. Special "Black Goat" 
edition, limited to 66 numbered copies. 
California: Three Hands Press [Xoanon]. 2011. 
First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Special 
"Black Goat" edition. Full Black Goat Leather in 
felt-lined slipcase, front panel embossed with a 
skull and crossed bones design by Liv 
Rainey-Smith, spine titled in silver, 
hand-marbled endsheets, limited to 66 
hand-numbered copies. 344 pages, illustrations, 
many in colour. The Special editions of this 
title were sold out almost instantly upon 
announcement, almost a year before publication. ¶ 
The mid-twentieth century witnessed the birth of 
popular occultism in the West, including an 
interest in witchcraft. At the forefront of 
popular witchcraft was Wicca, a recension of 
ceremonial magic and nature worship advanced by 
Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders, now widely 
regarded as a religion. However, lesser-known 
streams of the witch-current thrived the shadows, 
having older historical roots, and linked to an 
ancient body of practice – witch-bottles, knotted 
cord spells, curses, exorcisms, sexual magic, and 
charms ranging from the conjuration of angels to 
protection of livestock and hearth. This was 
Traditional Witchcraft, whose origin in part lies 
with the sorcery of the cunning-folk of Britain 
and Colonial America. Though largely avoiding the 
popular occult limelight, from 1970 onward, 
elements of Traditional Witchcraft experienced a 
partial emergence into the public through such 
publications as Paul Huson’s Mastering 
Witchcraft, the writings of Robert Cochrane and 
Evan John Jones, and Andrew Chumbley’s Azoëtia: A 
Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft. Based on over 
forty years of research and private collaboration 
with practitioners, Michael Howard’s Children of 
Cain is the definitive history of Traditional 
Witchcraft and its key operatives in Britain and 
the United States. Supplemented with diverse 
photographs and illustrations, many appearing for 
the first time, the book artfully encompasses the 
unique legacy of Traditional Witchcraft - those 
who bear the Mark of the Exile as a sign of 
hidden power: the Children of Cain. This book 
will be of great interest to anyone studying or 
practicing "traditional" witchcraft. Tracing the 
roots of witchcraft, the book has in-depth essays 
on Traditional Witch Ways, The Clan of Tubal 
Cain, The Regency, The Pickingill Craft, The 
Horse Whisperers, American Traditional Witches, 
The Sabbatic Craft and The Old Craft Today, with 
an extensive Glossary and Bibliography. There are 
16 pages of images on glossy paper stock, mostly 
in colour, depicting portraits of persons 
discussed within the text, artifacts, and art, 
including colour artwork by Andrew D. Chumbley 
and Austin Osman Spare. "The Sabbatic Craft" 
chapter, which runs some 26 pages, examines in 
depth the work of Chumbley and the Cultus 
Sabbati, and is perhaps the best essay extant on 
this curious and gifted group of initiates. 
Essential reading. Was $750.00, now $550.00

LLOYD, John Uri. ETIDORPA; Or, The End Of Earth. 
The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the 
Account of a Remarkable Journey. New York: Dodd, 
Mead & Company (1901) Revised Edition. Eleventh 
Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo, original 
red cloth, front cover lettered in black, spine 
lettered in gilt, pictorial paper label on front 
cover. Frontispiece and many illustrations by J. 
Augustus Knapp. 375 pp. Small bookplate on front 
fixed endpaper, a fine bright copy in the 
original printed dust jacket, lightly browned and 
scuffed, some very minor chipping to edges. 
Originally published privately in 1895, "in this 
edition chapters excluded from the earlier 
editions have been given a place, thus enlarging 
and making the book complete." (from the author's 
Preface to this edition). An excellent copy of 
the first edition to print the author's preferred 
text. ¶ A bizarre 19th-century American fantasy 
novel with secret occult societies and 
hallucinogenic drugs; a voyage to an inner world 
inside the earth where grow giant tree-like 
mushrooms whose juice creates visions of 
Dante-like hells. Much occultism, spiritualism 
and metaphysics. A cult classic. Was $500.00, now $350.00

LOVECRAFT, H.P. [Howard Phillips]. AMATEUR 
CORRESPONDENT [formerly SCIENCE-FANTASY 
CORRESPONDENT]. May-June 1937 (volume 2, number 
1). Edited by Corwin F. Stickney. Belleville, 
N.J.: Corwin F. Stickney. 1937. First Edition, 
First Printing. First edition. Octavo, single 
issue, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. The 
fourth and most important of the six issues of 
this famous fanzine. This is the issue dedicated 
to the memory of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who 
died on March 15, 1937. The cover bears the first 
appearance of the portrait of Lovecraft by Virgil 
Finlay, the issue also contains 'The Sage of 
College Street, a memoir of HPL by E. Hoffmann 
Price and the first appearance in print of 'Notes 
on Writing Weird Ficition' by Lovecraft. Covers 
slightly browned, a clean, solid, very good copy.  Was $850.00, now $650.00

19.  MARSH, Richard. THE JOSS: A Reversion. 
London: F.V. White & Co. 1901 First Edition, 
First Printing. Octavo, original pictorial green 
cloth stamped in black, yellow and gilt. 310 pp. 
A good to very good copy - some minor stains, 
front free endpaper missing, evidence of a large 
bookplate removed from inner front cover; cloth 
somewhat rubbed and worn; still, despite the 
faults, a bright & attractive copy of a very 
scarce book. ¶ Supernatural horror novel. A young 
woman inherits a substantial fortune and an old, 
decrepit, mouldering house; she also acquires a 
strange, small idol which appears to have a life 
of it's own. Considered by many to be a more 
powerful and effective work than his classic 
horror novel THE BEETLE [1897]. Was $750.00, now $450.00

SCHULKE, Daniel A. [editor]. THE OCCULT 
RELIQUARY. Images and Artifacts of the 
Richel-Edlermans Collection. Edited by Daniel A. 
Schulke, Introduction by Graham King. SPECIAL 
EDITION IN FULL SCARLET MOROCCO, SLIPCASED, 
LIMITED TO 100 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES. California: 
Three Hands Press [Xoanon] Published in 
association with The Museum of Witchcraft, 
Boscastle, Cornwall. 2010 First Edition, First 
Printing. Quarto, original gilt-stamped full 
scarlet morocco leather with felt-lined slipcase, 
limited to 100 copies. 216 pp, over 275 
illustrations, 130 of which are in full colour. A 
fine copy in slipcase. This Special Edition was 
sold out almost a year before publication. ¶ 
Edited by Daniel A. Schulke and with an 
Introduction by Graham King, The Occult Reliquary 
presents a selection of images from the 
Richel-Eldermans Collection, an occult archive of 
some 2,000 images and artifacts housed in the 
Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall. 
Situated at the crossroads of erotic magic, 
ceremonial angelic conjuration, and witchcraft, 
the images comprise, in part, a pictorial cipher 
of the rituals of Ars Amatoria, a European 
magical order using sex magic, and the 
lesser-known M.:.M.:., based in the Hague and 
Leiden. Also referenced among the collection are 
materials relating to A.:.A.:. of Aleister 
Crowley. The transfixing procession of images, 
charms, magical seals, and ritual objects in the 
Collection is the work of multiple artists, and 
displays a high degree of magical insight and 
creativity. It will be of interest to students of 
witchcraft, Freemasonry, the Goetia, sex magic, 
and early twentieth century occultism. The 
Reliquary presents for the first time a selection 
of these magical images, many reproduced at full 
scale, and bound with the highest quality 
materials. Printed in large-format on archival 
paper, it was issued in three different editions: 
A Special Edition in full morocco and slipcase, 
limited to 100 copies, a Deluxe Edition in 
quarter morocco and slipcase, limited to 250 
copies, and a Standard Edition in cloth, limited 
to 675 copies. We offer here a copy of the 
Special Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies, 
which was sold out long before publication and is 
virtually unobtainable today.    Was $1,250.00, now $750.00

SMITH, Clark Ashton. EBONY AND CRYSTAL: POEMS IN 
VERSE AND PROSE. [Auburn, California]: [Clark 
Ashton Smith] [1922] First Edition, First 
Printing. Octavo, original red cloth, front panel 
titled in gold. 152 pp. Printed in a limited 
edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Smith, 
this being copy #475. This copy has several minor 
corrections in the text in Smith's hand. Light 
browning to endpapers, a fine, bright copy 
without dust jacket as issued. ¶ The author's 
third book, printed at The Auburn Journal, the 
local newspaper office in the small California 
town where Smith lived. The text block is stapled 
rather than sewn; copies with undamaged inner 
hinges are uncommon due to this curious form of 
binding. Was $650.00, now $500.00

WELLS, H.G. [Herbert George]. THE WAR OF THE 
WORLDS. London: William Heinemann. 1898. First 
Edition, First Printing. Octavo, original grey 
cloth titled in black on spine and front panel. 
303 pp. Of several noted variants, this is the 
issue with no publisher's catalogue inserted at 
the rear. Lacking the front free endpaper, and 
with a W.H. Smith & Sons Subscription Library 
label on the inner front cover; lower corners a 
trifle bruised, spine very slightly canted, a few 
small marks to the cloth. Overall, a very good 
copy, quite attractive. ¶ The classic 
Interplanetary invasion novel. Very Good. 
Hardcover.              Was $850.00, now $550.00

WHEATLEY, Dennis. THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. A Novel. 
London: London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd. 
No Date (1935) First Edition, Second Impression. 
Octavo, original red cloth titled in black on 
spine and front panel, map endpapers. [329] pp + 
[5] pages of publisher's ads + 40 pp publisher's 
catalogue dated Spring, 1935 bound in at rear. 
Old faint rubber stamp on front free endpaper and 
three letters MSL perforated (unobtrusively) 
towards fore-edge of the same page, no other 
markings. Spine slightly leaned, faded & spotted 
with minor chafing at head & foot, corners 
slightly chafed, edges foxed, some offsetting to 
endpapers, otherwise a solid, very good copy. 
This copy includes p. [329], which has a short 
address from the author inviting readers to 
contact him with their comments. There is a 
penciled note on a preliminary leaf which notes 
that this page was often excised, presumably 
following reconsideration by the author. ¶ The 
first known reprinting of the first edition, with 
the words "Second Impression" on the undated 
title page. Originally issued 12 December 1934, 
the first printing is rare, and early printings 
are very uncommon. At some point Hutchinson went 
from stating "Second Impression", etc, to stating 
"Tenth Thousand"; this copy would presumably 
pre-date any copies notated as such. An inscribed 
copy of the first printing in dust wrapper and 
wrap-around band brought £4500 at auction 
(Bloomsbury, 12/11/2008). Wheatley's first occult 
novel and the most popular supernatural novel of 
the 20th century, basis for the 1968 Hammer film 
of the same title starring Christopher Lee. Was $350.00, now $225.00


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