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Madras, India: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1954. Fourth Printings. Hardcover. 3 Small Octavos, cloth over boards. (7 1/2 in. x 4 in.). One light blue volume, two red volumes, each with black lettering. Vol. III of patterned cloth. 488 pp.;417 pp.; 474 pp. A littlefoxing to top edges of all..... More
Tierra del Sol, California: Mille Meditations, 1968. Vivian Blackstone. First Printing (NAP). Softcover. Quarto. Card covers (12 in. x 9 in.) with fabulous image of Pan to front and rear. Some brown spotting to fore-edge, particularly the first 16 or so pages. NOTE: a three-inch closed tear in the thick..... More
Jacksonville, FL: Arthur Publications, Inc., 1980. Hardcover. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. viii, 225, [2]. White faux lewather boards with gilt title and lightning bolt symbol to front. Gilt title to spine. Light shelfwear to spine ends. Bookseller sticker to rear flyleaf. More
Los Angeles, CA: Manly P. Hall Publications, 1932. Third Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Turquoise cloth over boards (10 3/4 in. x 8 in.) image of black, winged Cadeusis to front board and black lettering to spine. Very light rubbing to corners. Both hinges starting (mull showing) but still quite structurally sound..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Self-Published (The Hall Publishing Company), 1929. Howard W. Wookey. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. (10 7/8 in. by 7 1/2 in.). Brown, quarterbound cloth-covered boards with embossed graphic in blind to bottom of front board. Graphic depicts the pine cone at the top of twin oak..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Hall Publishing Company, 1929. Howard W. Wookey. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Brown cloth over boards (10 3/4 in. x 8 in.) with gilt lettering and brown-on-gilt Cadeusis to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to extremities (corners, edges and spinecaps) . Frontis photo by..... More
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1875. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.1 in. x 5.8 in., pp. xxxix, [1], 147, [10] (advertising). Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis, 19 plates, and numerous line drawings. Ivy green cloth boards with three decorative floral bands stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Orange cloth-over-boards (9 1/4 in by 6 1/8 in.). Orange, price-clipped dustjacket. Faintest rubbing to corners. Dustjacket shows creasing and a few minor edge tears. "Professors Kennedy and Pingree have "analyzed all that is presently available of a major..... More
Adyar, Madras, INDIA: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1962. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Red cloth over boards, (7 1/4 in. x 5 in.) with tape stains to front and rear endpapers. 639 pp., including Index. The author writes: "...Much of what is written here has appeared in the form of articles..... More
London, England: The Knights Templars of Aquarius, 1976. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Dark blue cloth over boards (9 1/2 in. x 6 1/4 in.) with gilt lettering and image of Osiris, the Egyptian god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, and resurrection, etc., to front board, and gilt lettering..... More
Ashingdon, Rochford, Essex, England: The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd., 1948. Arthur Wragg. Third Edition, Revised. Octavo. 8 3/4 in. x 6 in. NOTE: One leaf missing (pp. 19-20), having been torn out. Pale-green buckram over boards. Black lettering to spine. Some smudging and spotting and rubbing and corner nudging to..... More