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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

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki; Paul Hardy (illus.) | The Shakespearian Tarot | 1997 | 9781860198076 Ex-display set. Cards & book in excellent condition, box rather worn. | £100.00

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 | Anthropogeny Part I | – | 1975 | Top corner of back cover creased. | £20.00

Douglas Baker | Beyond the Intellect | – | 1979 | 0906006457 Light wear to cover & edge. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £45.00

Douglas Baker | The Diary of an Alchemist | S.E.E.K. | 1977 | Edge shows first signs of foxing. | £20.00

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Astrology Part One | – | 1975 | Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £40.00

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Healing Part II Stress Disorders | – | 1976 | White areas of cover becoming discoloured, outer edge of page-block foxed & lightly marked. | £50.00

Douglas Baker | Esoteric Psychology The Seven Rays | – | 1979 | 0906006023 Second edition. A couple of creases to cover, paper foxed. | £25.00

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. | £30.00

Douglas Baker | The Psychology of Discipleship | – | 1976 | Light wear to cover & edge. | £20.00

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. | £30.00

Leonard E. Barrett | The Rastafarians | Heinemann, Sangsters | 1982 | 0435894587 Light wear to cover. | £20.00

Francine Bernier | The Templars’ Legacy in Montreal, the New Jerusalem | Adventures Unlimited | 2001 | 1931882142 Light wear to cover & edge, edge of cover very slightly sunned. | £25.00

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. | £75.00

Arthur Bhaduri | The Key to Health | Aquarian | 1952 | First Edition. Unlaminated card cover is sunned at one edge, lightly marked on the back. | £100.00

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. | £75.00

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. | £25.00

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

Joseph Campbell; Fraser Boa | This Business of the Gods | Windrose | 1989 | 096932541X Spine very lightly faded, name on half title page. | £20.00

William Caxton, F. S. Ellis [ed.] | The Golden Legend Volume Seven | Dent | 1900 | Temple Classics pocket edition in blue binding, gilt design on spine still bright, name on ffep | £10.00

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

Hans Conzelmann | History of Primitive Christianity | Abingdon | 1973 | 0687172519 Very good hardback in worn jacket. | £35.00

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

Donna Cunningham | The Moon in your Life | Samuel Weiser | 1996 | 9780877288374 Worn paperback. Binding is still solid & text pages are unmarked. | £30.00

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

Padmasiri De Silva | An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology | 1979 | hardback in jacket, small pencil mark in the margin of one page (there may be others which I haven’t found, but certainly nothing conspicuous or distracting) | £25.00

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

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

Thomas Fawcett | Hebrew Myth and Christian Gospel | SCM Press | 1973 | First Edition. Hardback in unclipped jacket. A layer of clear lamination has been applied to the jacket. Jacket is a little crinkled at the base of the spine. | £17.50

Rene Gallant | Bombarded Earth | John Baker | 1964 | spine creased, minor wear to cover & edge, no problem with text pages & plates | £10

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

John D. Gimlette | Malay Poisons and Charm Cures | Oxford | 1991 | 0195885759 Label trace on front cover, outer edge of page-block lightly foxed, lower edge of page-block dustmarked. | £15

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

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

Daisaku Ikeda | The New Human Revolution Volume 3 | Eternal Ganges | 2020 | 978819019026 Light wear to cover & edge. | £15

Daisaku Ikeda | The New Human Revolution Volume 4 | Eternal Ganges | 2020 | 9788190192033 Front cover creased. Pencil annotation. | £15

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

Zen Master Keizan Jokin | The Denkoroku | Shasta Abbey Press | n.d. | light wear to cover & edge, a couple of creased page corners | £20

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

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

Gen Lamrimpa | Samatha Meditation | Snow Lion | minor general wear, small mark on rear endpaper | £17

E. Kadloubovsky & G. E. H. Palmer [trs.] | Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart | Faber | 1979 | Reprint in unclipped jacket. Pen mark on back cover of jacket. Edge of page-block foxed. Shop sticker on ffep. Thin pen mark on title page, along with offset marks from some clipping or picture having been inserted into the book at some time. Some marginal marking & underlining in ink & pencil. Still a good copy to read & study, but very evidently secondhand. | £40

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

Saint Leo the Great | On the Birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ | Stanbrook Abbey Press | 1958 | At first glance, a very good copy BUT the outer margins of four pages, two of them bearing text, are flecked with light (possibly tea) stains. | £15

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

John Matthews; Wil Kinghan | The Lost Tarot of Nostradamus | Connections | 2012 | 978185903507 Guidebook & tarot deck in box. | £50

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

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

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney | The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual | 1987 | hardback in jacket – jacket is rather worn, with a few closed tears on the top edge, including a long one down the fold of the front flap, no problem with main body of book | £10

Marmaduke Pickthall | The Meaning of the Glorious Koran | Dorset | n.d. | 0880292091 Reprint in unclipped jacket. Spine & edge of cover very lightly sunned. | £25

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

Shohaku Okumura, Daitsu Tom Wright | Dogen Zen | Kyoto Soto-Zen Center | 1988 | Minor wear to cover. | £50

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. | £100.00

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. | £75.00

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

Pabongka Rinpoche | Liberation in the Palm of your Hand | Wisdom | 2006 | 9780861715008 unread copy with light external wear from previous shop display | £100

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

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

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

R. H. Stevenson [tr]. | Amiran-Darejaniani : a cycle of medieval Georgian tales traditionally acribed to Mose Khoneli. | Oxford, Clarendon Press | 1958 | Hardback in dustjacket. Reading copy only. This book has been kept in damp conditions at some time, leaving the jacket in tatty and stained condition, and the book cover discoloured, with a little transfer from the jacket. The book is also rather bowed, with blotchy foxing on the edge and endpapers. Apart from some wear to the outer edge, there is no problem with the text pages. | £20

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

Bruce Tegner | Bruce Tegner’s Complete Book of Aikido Holds & Locks | Corgi | 1971 | 0552086290 Some foxing to predominantly white cover & endpapers. | £20

Bruce Tegner | Bruce Tegner’s Complete Book of Jujitsu | Corgi | 1978 | 0552109398 Apparently unread copy with a couple of small light pressure marks to its cover. | £20

Bruce Tegner | Bruce Tegner’s Complete Book of Jukado | Corgi | 1974 | 0552084565 Top corner of front cover & first 3 (non-text) pages bumped, light diagonal crease at outer edge of back cover. Text pages in very good condition. | £15

Sefton B. Temkin | Isaac Mayer Wise; Shaping American Judaism | The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/OUP | 1992| 0197100597. Hardback/dj. Very good/good. Dj slightly worn along top edge, tiny scuff on back. Ready to post in UK. | £14

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. (At the time of cataloguing, I do also have the deck in stock – please contact me if you are interested in that.) | £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

Paul V. A. Williams | Primitive Religion and Healing | D. S.Brewer | 1979 | hardback in unclipped jacket, back cover of jacket is very lightly crinkled, gift inscription on ffep | £14

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