Leeds: Northern Lights, 1982. First edition. Tall quarto (29.5 cm). Saddle stapled covers; 42 pp. The inaugural issue of this British new age journal. Includes the supplemental catalogue for the Northern F.A.I.R., but is lacking the free color poster advertised on the front cover. Standard 80s new age fare. We..... More
Virginia Beach, VA: Edgar Cayce Publishing Co., 1960. Reprint. An offprint from FATE magazine, in which Edgar Cayce’s son describes his father’s clairvoyance. Wrappers (5 ½” x 7 ½”) bound with one staple, 8 p., photographs. Browning to paper, shallow grazing. More
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Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age..... More
Central Point, Oregon: Solar Light Center, 1967-68. Starcraft was the newsletter of the Solar Light Center founded by Marianne Francis and husband Kenneth Kellar in Oregon in 1966. The couple had previously established the Santa Barbara Space Craft Research Society where they hosted lectures for leading figures in Ufology. Francis..... More
Portland, Oregon: The Order of the White Rose, [193-?]. Twelfth edition. An occult treatise on auras and colors and their metaphysical significance, which includes The Dictionary of Colors; Their Spiritual Meanings. One of the many titles written and published by Jesse Charles Fremont Grumbine (1861-1938), a Unitarian minister who founded..... More
Los Angeles: New Age Press, 1943. Second edition. A Rosicrucian theory on the “new race forming in America[,] the embyronic [sic] beginning of the next Great Race, the sixth Root Race, which will succeed the present Aryan or fifth Root Race when its full cycle of seven sub-races shall have..... More
n.p. n.p., [190-?]. A scarce document that includes the background, beliefs and purpose, Constitution, rules and regulations of the Worlds Comrades, a Tribe, a freethought utopian group, that according to the front wrapper was founded by a William Hetrick. The first half of the document contains a lengthy message from..... More
Los Angeles: Harry J. Gardener, 1942. First Edition. A bizarre work of eschatological fear-mongering from the spiritual charlatan, self-proclaimed Bibliologist and archaeologist, James Carlton Hollenbeck. Published during the destabilizing days of WWII, Hollenbeck claimed that Prince Abdul Baraba Baha, the cousin of King Feisal of Iraq, was the “Super Deceiver”..... More
Philadelphia: The Golden Lotus Press, 1947. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, 159-175 pp (printed rectos only). Chipping to wrappers, heavier to rear wrapper which is detached; darkening to wrapper edges and dampstain along spine. A Good, complete copy. Less than a dozen institutions hold scattered issues in WorldCat. A single..... More
Philadelphia: The Golden Lotus Press, 1948. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled, mimeographed wrappers, 92-112 pp. Light toning and wear to wrappers, but a VG copy of a fragile magazine. Less than a dozen institutions hold scattered issues in WorldCat. A single issue of the monthly Buddhist magazine published by William J. Leslie..... More
Newark, N.J.: Sam Moskowitz, 1976. Limited ed. A self-published endeavor by the science fiction historian and anthologist, Sam Moskowitz, who includes a lengthy essay on Charles Fort and reprints Fort’s only science fiction/fantasy story, “A Radical Corpuscle,” which had originally been published in “Watson’s Magazine” in 1906. Included are George..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1946. First Edition. An expose of the spirit medium racket by the magician and author Julien Proskauer (1893-1958). 8vo. Green cloth boards, gilt titling to spine, xvii, 198 p., dust jacket. A fine copy in a good+ dust jacket. Pieces missing from..... More
Chicago: Published by the author, ©1932. Eighth Edition. A scarce Rosicrucian title, in which the author discusses the psychological, physiological, and sexual components of a happy marriage and compatible sexual union. First published in 1925, the author offered a correspondence course by the same name. In his foreword, the author..... More
Los Angeles: Impact Publishers, Inc., 1968. A conspiratorial work that connects Sirhan Sirhan (“a pro-Communist dabbler in the occult and the metaphysical”) with theosophy, the Illuminati, Rosicrucianism, the Doors, and the New Left. Photographs of occult figures and publications, hippies, etc. Stapled, purple card wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”)..... More
[Philadelphia]: The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, [1885]. First edition. Two early event announcements for the Philadelphia branch of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a Mason offshoot better known today as the Shriners. The A.A.O.N.M.S. was first established in..... More
Northport, NY: Twenty-First Century Media Inc., 1974. A single issue of this short-lived newsletter “dedicated to creating open, humanistic environments for better interpersonal communication and to exploring the phenomenon of synergy, the coming together of people, ideas and environments for creation of something greater than the sum of the parts”..... More
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1932. First edition. 12mo. Orange cloth boards ruled and lettered in black; 120 pp., [6] pp adverts; illus. Organized in 12 chapters by type of trick (e.g., card, coin, etc.). A scarce Thurston title, we find no other copies currently offered in the trade; only..... More
[Columbus, Ohio: Pfeifer Press], 1930. First edition. Octavo. Original, saddle-stapled, illustrated wrappers; 64 pp.; illus. "A book of Mystery and Magic treating upon the subjects of: Magic You Can Do, Astrology, Palmistry, Numerology, Dreams and Fortunes with Card. Also containing a biographical story of Thurston the Magician and photographs of..... More
Leipzig: Hermann Haacke, 1898. Second edition. Octavo (22 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], 118, [2] pp. In German. In this work first published in 1885, German philosopher, Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906), provides psychological explanations for metaphysical and occult phenomena. Some rubbing and soiling to wrappers with a small bump and..... More
New York: Aquarian Agent, 1970. A scarce early issue of this long-running astrology periodical founded and edited by Henry Weingarten in NYC. The paper’s self-described aim was to “provide the student of Astrology with modern techniques and articles to supplement an intelligent and penetrating interest in Astrology.” Articles on Chinese..... More
[Vista, California: Borderland Sciences Research Associates], [1960]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed leaves with cover illustration of Edison and Steinmetz, 31 pp, illus. Pulp stock is brittle, browned and chipped along the edges; a later staple has been added for reinforcement, although the last leaf is loose. No record for this..... More
London: James Cornish, 1850. Second edition. 16mo. (16.5 cm). Red, gilt and ornately blind-stamped cloth; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; 64 pp. Zadkiel was the pseudonym of English astrologist, Richard James Morrison (1795-1874). He published the popular Grammar of Astrology before first issuing these tables in 1834. We find..... More