Esoterica

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Cornelius Agrippa | The Ladies’ Oracle | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1983 | 374182639 Intermittent blotchy foxing on edges of page block & in margins. | £100

Annamalai Swami; David Godman (ed.) | Final Talks | Godman, Avadhuta Foundation | 2006 | 9780971137165 Outer corners of book bowed. | £90

Peter F. Anson | The Pilgrim’s Sketch Books – No. 2: Forgotten Shrines of BritainNo. 3: A Pilgrimage to Brittany | Burns, Oates and Washbourne | Slim booklets with card covers. A little sunned around the spine. The pale unlaminated covers have picked up a few small marks. | £30 each

St Thomas Aquinas; Timothy McDermott (ed.) | Summa Theologiae: a Concise Translation | Eyre & Spottiswoode | 1989 | 9780413356307 Minor wear to jacket & outer edge of page-block. | £40

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki | Building a Temple | Servants of the Light; Pallas-Aquariana | 1981 | Second edition. Stapled pamphlet. Pale cover is lightly marked. Very light reading crease to back cover. | £100

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki; Paul Hardy (illus.) | The Shakespearian Tarot | 1997 | 9781860198076 Ex-display set. Cards & book in excellent condition, box rather worn. | £100

Nicolai Bachman | The Language of Ayurveda | Sanskrit Sounds, Trafford Publishing | 2005 | 9781412069526 Spiral-bound book with 2 CDs in integral pockets. The cover is worn, most evidently at the edges, & one of the pockets has been reinforced with sellotape along one side. | £150

Douglas Baker | Beyond the Intellect | – | 1979 | 0906006457 Light wear to cover & edge. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £45

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Astrology Part One | – | 1975 | Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £40

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Healing Part II Stress Disorders | – | 1976 | White areas of cover becoming discoloured, outer edge of page-block foxed & lightly marked. | £50

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Psychology The Seven Rays | – | 1979 | 0906006023 Second edition. A couple of creases to cover, paper foxed. | £25

Douglas Baker | In the Steps of the Master | – | 1977 | Some wear to edge of cover. White areas of cover darkening, outer edge of page-block foxed. | £30

Douglas Baker | The Psychology of Discipleship | – | 1976 | Light wear to cover & edge. | £20

Douglas Baker | The Spiritual Diary | S.E.E.K. | 1977 | Small ink offset marks on back cover. Ink annotation & marking on a least 5 pages. | £30

Michael Bertiaux | The Voudon Gnostic Workbook | Magickal Childe | 1988 | 0939708124 First edition of Bertiaux’s masterwork. Top corner of front cover creased, light creasing to back cover, tiny nick in upper margin of last page. | £75

Arthur Bhaduri | The Key to Health | Aquarian | 1952 | First Edition. Unlaminated card cover is sunned at one edge, lightly marked on the back. | £100

Jacob Bohme [Jacob Boehme], John Rolleston Earle [tr.] | De Electione Gratiae and Quaestiones Theosophicae [On the Election of Grace, etc.] | Constable | 1930 | Very good hardback, light wear to boards. | £75

David Brakke | The Apocryphal Jesus | The Great Courses | – | 9781629973937 Shrinkwrapped book & DVD set. NB: YOU WILL NEED A MULTIREGION DVD PLAYER TO WATCH THIS NORTH AMERICAN DISC. | £25

Sheila Broun | Listen to the Earth | n.p. | 1990 | Stapled pamphlet. White cover is sunned & lightly marked. A couple of the pages have an uneven dark-toned background (I’m not sure whether this was a mishap with the photocopier or a design choice) but remain readable. | £50

Tara Buckland | Beauty Secrets of the Ancient Egyptians | Taray Publications | 1982 | Stapled pamphlet. Cover foxed. Faint impression of original pencilled price in top corner of cover. | £50

Zsuzsanna Budapest; Carol Clement (illus.) | Selene: the Most Famous Bull-Leaper on Earth | Diana Press | 1976 | Some discoloration to cover, with a light damp mark at the lower corner of the front panel/spine. Thin biro mark on back panel. Text pages & illustrations look very good indeed. | £40

J. Buffery | London Witchcraft | James Pike | 1977 | Stapled pamphlet. | £15

Bill Butler | The Definitive Tarot | Rider | 1980 | A handsome copy with light wear to cover & edge. | £75

Cai Longyun | The Eighteen Arhat Methods of Shaolin Kungfu | Hai Feng | 1986 | 962238031X Light foxing to outer edge of page-block. | £40.00

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | Present Fresh Wakefulness | Rangjung Yeshe | some wear to cover & edge | £50.00

Andrew Collins | The Brentford Griffin | Earthquest | 1985 | Stapled pamphlet. | £100

Hans Conzelmann | History of Primitive Christianity | Abingdon | 1973 | 0687172519 Very good hardback in worn jacket. | £35

Nasarvanji Maneckji Cooper | The Imitation of Zoroaster | Cooper Publishing Company | Inscribed by author on ffep (some other bookdealer has helpfully attached a small SIGNED EDITION sticker to the upper corner of the page). Cover worn & marked, pages heavily foxed. | £100.00

Aleister Crowley | Eight Lectures on Yoga | New Falcon | 1991 | 1561840076 Light wear to cover & edge, name on ffep. | £100

Donna Cunningham | The Moon in your Life | Samuel Weiser | 1996 | 9780877288374 Worn paperback. Binding is still solid & text pages are unmarked. | £30

Rene Daumal; Roger Shattock (tr.); Vera Daumal (pref.) | Mount Analogue | City Lights | 1971 | A rough reading copy with worn, marked, heavily foxed cover, heavily foxed edge. No problem with text pages. | £50

Melusine Draco | The Hollow Tree | Ignotus | 2002 | 9780952268987 Minor wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners of cover. | £50

Melusine Draco and Paul Harriss | A Witch’s Treasury of the Countryside | Ignotus | 2003 | 9781903768082 Lower corner of front cover creased. Outer tip of ffep creased. The book has been exposed to damp at some time, & the outer edge of the page-block is water-marked, as is the outer margin of the last few pages. | £50

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson | Life in the Next World | Cesara | 1989 | Stapled pamphlet. Cover foxed. Label trace on lower corner of front cover, price label on reverse. | £50

K. Enoeda, J. Chisholm | Karate Defence and Attack | Paul H. Crompton | 1972 | First edition in plain binding, no jacket. | £20.00

C. Stephen Evans | The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith | Oxford | spine creased, general wear to cover & edge, pressure marks on back cover, no problem with text pages | £14

Åke Fant, Arne Klingborg, A. John Wilkes | Rudolf Steiner’s Sculpture in Dornach | Rudolf Steiner Press | 1975 | 0854403019 Edges of dustjacket are tatty, with some loss at the upper edges of the flaps & back cover. Top edge of cloth cover is rubbed & faded. Ffep is lightly marked, with Skelton Workshops sticker in the top corner. Text pages & photographs are in very good condition. Inner top corner of blank rear endpaper is torn where it has adhered to the rear pastedown: this appears to be a production fault rather than later damage. | £50

A. S. Geden | Mithraic Sources in English | Cthonios | 1990 | Hardback, no jacket. | £50

Lama Anagarika Govinda | The Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist Philosophy | Rider | 1961 | first edition in price clipped jacket | £40

Beata Grant | Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih | Hawaii | 1994 | 9780824816254 Some wear to edges of jacket, most evidently at the spine | £30

Kenneth Grant | Against the Light | Starfire | 1997 | 952782413 No jacket, boards rather worn & marked, front cover set forward. Traces of some previous bookdealer’s pencilled price on ffep, slight ripple to page-block. | £50

Robert Graves | The White Goddess | Faber | 1948 | First printing. Boards sunned & marked, bumped at the edge. Bookplate on front pastedown. Text pages unmarked & in very good condition. | £50

Sinead Sula Grian | The Sun Goddess Vol. I: Sun Goddesses of Europe: Celtic, Baltic, Etc. | Priestess Magazine | 1986 | Stapled pamphlet.Lower corner of front panel creased, first page & outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright | Zen Classics | Oxford | edge rather dusty & worn | £15

David Hoffmann | Complete Illustrated Guide to the Holistic Herbal | Element | 2001 | 9780007133017 Outer edge of paper becoming foxed. | £40

Paul Huson | The Devil’s Picture Book | Abacus | 1972 | Some wear to corners of cover, light damp stain to lower edge of opening pages, does not affect text area. | £40

Kenneth Johnson | Jaguar Wisdom | Llewellyn | 1997 | 9781567183726 Some wear to cover and edge, paper tanned with age, no problem with text pages. New age bookshop stamp on first page. | £80

J. A. Johnston | Esoteric Irish Folk Tales (Nine Volume set) | Keltia | 1984 | Set of 9 stapled pamphlets. Each contains two generic introductions, one to the tales themselves, the other to the qabalah, followed by the text of a tale drawn from Jeremiah Curtin’s collection, accompanied by Johnston’s commentary. Volumes are as follows: 1. Gold Apple, Son of the King of Erin; 2. Sgiathan Dearg and the Daughter of the King of the Western World (small light mark on back cover); 3 The Bird of the Golden Land (lower edge marked); 4. The Son of the King of Erin and the Queen of Moving Wheel (pale cover rather worn & marked); 5. The Three Sons of the King of Antua (minor wear to cover, outer edge of pages foxed); 6. Baranoir, Son of a King in Erin, and the Daughter of King under the Wave (pale cover is foxed/marked, minor wear to edge); 7. The King’s Son in Erin and the King of Green Island; 8. Fainne Oir, Daughter of the King of Erin, and the Son of the King of Three Seas (fore-edge marked); 9. Sal Fhada, the King’s Son and Finn Mac Cumhaill | £200

Marc Edmund Jones | Occult Philosophy: an Introduction, the Major Concepts and a Glossary | Sabian, Shambhala | 1977 | 0394733436 Cover rather worn, pale spine marked, no problem with text pages. | £30

Roshi Philip Kapleau | Zen: Dawn in the West | Rider | 1980 | 0197139116 First edition in unclipped jacket. Reduced price label on front flap. Previous owner’s pencilled name has been not completely erased from ffep & dedication pages. | £30

Arthur Berriedale Keith | The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads – 2 volume set | Motilal Banarsidass | 1989 | Reprints, no jackets, cloth covers are slightly different tones, spines of both volumes and top edge of vol I are lightly sunned. There is a diagonal pressure mark at the lower inner corner of the front cover and opening pages of vol I – I think a binding fault rather than some later mishap – and a few small marks on the cover of vol II. ISBN of vol I is 812080645X, vol II 8120806468. A sturdy, serviceable set. | £30

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche | Journey of the Mind | Vajra Books | 2000 | 187729408X Gift inscription on ffep, top edge of back cover & last page bumped. | £50

Robert Kirk; R. J. Stewart | Robert Kirk: Walker between Worlds (The Secret Commonwealth) | Element | 1990 | 9781852301415 At first glance, a very good copy. But, at the time of cataloguing, the book retains a faint lingering scent of tobacco smoke. | £40

T. C. Lai | Pa Ta Shan Jen : Chinese Monk-Painter | Swindon Book Company | 1987 SECOND (REVISED) EDITION—very good paperback, ready to post in UK | £100

Kazuzo Kudo | Judo in Action: Grappling Techniques | Japan Publications Trading Company | 1981 | 0870400738 Minor wear to cover & edge, front cover set a little forward, rubber stamp of a judo teacher on reverse of covers. | £50

Sybil Leek | The Complete Art of Witchcraft | Leslie Frewin | 1975 | Worn reading copy. | £30

Paul R. Lonigan | The Druids | Greenwood | 1996 | Edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Lutren | Pictish Military History | Keltia | 1988 | 906590795 Stapled pamphlet with lightly foxed cover. | £50

Nicholas R. Mann | The Keltic Power Symbols | Triskele | 1987 | 951068229 Photocopied stapled pamphlet with minor external wear. | £50

Caitlin Matthews | The Celtic Book of the Dead | Connections | 1999 | Hardback book with pictorial cover, minor wear to cover most evident at edge | £40

T.S. Maxwell | The Gods of Asia; Image, Text and Meaning. | Oxford | 1998 | 0195647335. Paperback. Reprint. Fair. Scarce. Cover is worn and discoloured, grubby on spine. Lamination is starting to peel at corners and along top edge of back cover. Fep very foxed. Most of text pages unaffected BUT there is a grubby mark in the lower margin of pl. 66 and the last plate is badly foxed. Text is clean and unmarked. Ready to post in UK. | £65

Adam McLean [ed.] | The Magical Calendar | Magnum Opus | 1980 | Second edition of the first title in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series. Minor wear to card covers, name on ffep. | £100

John Michell | New Light on the Ancient Mystery of Glastonbury | Gothic Image | 1990 | 9780906362143 No. 430 of a signed limited edition of 999 copies. Illustrated boards. Some wear to cover. Outer edge of back cover is sunned, as is the very outer edge of the front cover. First signs of foxing on outer edge of pageblock. Endpapers are lightly tanned, & there is a light rusty mark on the outer edge of the front endpaper. Still a handsome copy, but evidently secondhand. | £50

Louise Morgan; Aldous Huxley (intr.) | Inside Yourself | Hutchinson | 1955 | A very good copy in unclipped jacket. A little loss to edges of jacket at spine & corners. White back panel of jacket has picked up some marks. | £40

Kaledon Naddair | Druidism: An Assessment | n.p. | 1987 | 906590841 Stapled pamphlet with lightly foxed/marked cover. The following items are loosely inserted: College of Druidism Newsletter No. 3; Reading List for C.O.D. students; individual sheets of Terms & Kennings, Regions Suitable for Shamanistic Attunement, & Requirements Need to “Journey” through One of the Four Elements; a couple of handwritten pages of notes. | £50

Kaledon Naddair | Keltic Animal Lore and Shamanism (2-volume set) | Keltia | 1987 | 906590760 Two stapled pamphlets. Lower corner of cover & first few pages of vol. I is creased, | £100

The Life of Nichiren Daishonin | NSIC | 1993 | 4888720339 Second edition. Lower corner of pageblock rather worn, outer tip of p.47 folded over. | £50

Nigel Pennick | Labyrinths: their Geomancy and Symbolism | Runestaff | 1984 | Stapled pamphlet. A labyrinth sticker is bound in at the front of the pamphlet. The first page is marked. | £50

Billie Potts | A New Women’s Tarot | Elf & Dragons Press | 1978 | Second edition. Stapled pamphlet. Cover is sunned around spine & outer edge. Top corner lightly bowed. | £100

Olivia Robertson | Dea: Rites and Mysteries of the Goddess | Cesara | 1988 | Stapled pamphlet. Inscribed by author on front page, along with a pen drawing. Diagonal crease across all pages & back cover. | £25

Olivia Robertson | Gaea: Initiations of the Earth | Cesara | 1991 | Stapled pamphlet. Inscribed by author on front page, along with a pen drawing. Typed letter from author enclosed. | £50

Nikolas Schreck (ed.) | Flowers from Hell | Creation | 2001 | 9781840680249 Light wear to cover & edge, old price pencilled in top corner of title page. | £200

Master Sheng Yen | Dharma Drum Mountain | 2010 | Very light external wear. | £100

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh AKA Osho | From Darkness to Light: Answers to the Seekers of the Path | Rebel Publishing House | n.d. | 3893380205 Paper tanned with age, lower edge of page block a little dust-marked. | £50

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh AKA Osho | In Search of the Miraculous: vol. 1 | 1984 | Rather worn paperback, with creases at lower corners of cover, a few page corners creased. Sticker explaining Rajneesh’s name change to Osho on first page. | £25

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh | That Art Thou | Rebel | – | 389338006X Hardback in jacket. Original sterling price label on back cover. | £100

Parvati (Fran Rosen-Bizberg) | Orion Transmissions Prophecy Volume I | Fundacja Terapia Homa | 2003 | 8390657317 Minor wear to cover & edge, top corner of spine/back cover bumped. | £75

Dale Pendell | The Language of Birds | Three Hands Press | 2009 | light wear to cover & edge| £50

Pabongka Rinpoche | Liberation in our Hands Part One: The Preliminaries | Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Press | cover rather worn & scuffed, top edge foxed,a couple of page corners lightly creased | £30

M. P. Pandit | Demands of Sadhana : Talks Based Upon the Mother’s Questions and Answers | Dipti | Paperback. | £50

Mira Sai | Enstasy: Standing inside Oneself | Mira Sai | 2009 | 9780986107719 Very light external wear from previous storage/display. | £50

Satyanand Paramahamsa | Four Chapters on Freedom | Bihar School of Yoga | 1979 | Card bound book in fragile wrapper. No problem with text pages | £50

Rupert Percy & Gabrielle Sidonie | Coarse Witchcraft: Craft Working | Moonraker, Ignotus | 2002 | 9781903768013 Some wear to cover & edge. Short split at bottom of fold of front panel/spine. Top corner of opening pages damp-stained & rippled. Outer edge foxed. | £20

Rupert Percy & Gabrielle Sidonie | Coarse Witchcraft: Carry on Crafting | Moonraker, Ignotus | 2004 | 9781903768280 Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Philip S. Rawson (intr.) | Tantra | Arts Council of Great Britain | 1971 | Light wear to cover & edge. Spine very slightly sunned, top edge of page-block foxed. | £30

Red Pine | The Platform Sutra | Shoemaker & Hoard | 2006 | hardback in unclipped jacket with very slightly faded spine | £40

Edward H. Schafer | Mirages on the Sea of Time: Taoist Poetry of Ts’ao T’ang | 1992 | Hardback in jacket, edge of page block foxed | £50

N. M. Scott | The Evil of Chanctonbury Ring | Badger | 1995 | Stapled pamphlet with a couple of small light marks to white cover. A supernatural horror story. | £50

Penelope Shuttle; Peter Redgrove | The Wise Wound | Gollancz | 1979 | 0575024550 Third impression in clipped jacket. First traces of foxing on upper edge of page-block. Previous owner’s name on ffep. | £50

Mervyn Sprung | Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way | RKP | ex library copy in dustjacket with inevitable markings & label traces | £25

Rudolf Steiner | Soul Economy and Waldorf Education | 1986 | hardback with design & lettering on front board, no jacket, light wear to cover, page block in very good condition | £45

Gerald Suster | Hitler and the Age of Horus | Sphere | 1981 | 0722182872 Cover rather worn, spine creased, remainder marks on outer edge, bookshop price label on back cover. Pencil marking in the margins of at least 3 pages. | £50

Tarot of Transition | U S Games Systems | 1991 | minor wear to box, very light wear to little white book, cards in lovely condition | £45

Maria Thun | Work on the Land and the Constellations | Lanthorn Press | 1979 | 90615510X Stapled pamphlet. Cover lightly sunned. | £50

Alawn Tickhill; Rich Westwood | Riding the Horse | Moonshine | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. Cover sunned around the spine. Some wear to edge of page-block. | £50

Alawn Tickhill; Rich Westwood | Weaving the Web | Moonshine | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet. | £50

Swami Rama Tirtha, A.J. Alston | Yoga and the Supreme Bliss | Alston | 1982 | top corner bumped, edge of pageblock & endpapers foxed; cover worn, with a small paint mark on the back cover; text pages unmarked | £35

Nawang Tsering | Buddhism in Ladakh | Sterling | 1979 | hardback with worn cover, creased rear endpaper, offset from front endpaper on blank first page of book, no problem with text pages | £25

Julia A. Turk | Navigators Tarot of the Mystic SEA | 2018 | 9780990313762 Second edition. Top corner of back cover is a little bumped. Please note: this is the book, not the deck itself. | £75

Ken Wilber | The 1-2-3 of God | 2007 | 4 cd set in cardboard folder inside slipcase. Slipcase is a little worn, with a label trace on the back. CDs are in excellent condition. | £30

Martin Willson | In Praise of Tara | Wisdom | 1986 | Light wear to cover. | £40

Andrei A. Znamenski [ed.] | Shamanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology. Volume II | Routledge Curzon | 2004 0415332486 Volume II only. No jacket, minor wear to cover & outer edge of pageblock, traces of pencilled stock code or similar on half title page. | £75