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Peter F. Anson | The Pilgrim’s Sketch Books – No. 2: Forgotten Shrines of Britain & No. 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

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

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

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

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche | Present Fresh Wakefulness | Rangjung Yeshe | some wear to cover & edge | £50

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

George Devereux (ed.) | Psychoanalysis and the Occult | Souvenir Press | 1974 | Some wear to cover & edge. Intermittent foxing to outer edge of page-block, with a large blotch on the top edge. Remainder stripe on lower edge of page-block, price blacked out on back cover. Text pages in very good condition. | £100

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 | Juno Covella – INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR | Cesara | 1982 | A very good copy in a tatty jacket. Previous owner’s name & sigil on ffep, some foxing to edge & endpapers. Inscribed by author to an unnamed recipient on the title page. | £50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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