occult

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 293 pages. B&w illustrations. A pioneering study that captures the mood, life and color of exorcist rituals. Attention is given to culture underling Sinhalese beliefs when demons intrude in their social world. Mild wear to covers, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 314 pages. Black boards, red dust jacket with graphic illustration.

Softcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st pbk., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. A fascinating look at the common ground which unites artist and magician. Light corner crease to front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Aquarian Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations, 256 pages. "Arthur Machen (1863-1947) .was acclaimed in his day as one of the finest stylists in English prose.The sequences of letters to his friends A.E.Waite, Colin Summerford, and John Galsworth, and to fellow authors and publishers, illuminate Machen's courageous struggles against poverty and adversity, while reflecting his lifelong preoccupations with literature, the occult, the Christian faith, and Celtic myth."

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A collection of 15 essays. No markings.

Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.

Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 165 pages The Satanic Sluts are 666 of the world's most attitudinal, creative and original women, linked by a shared interest in all things dark, sexual and Satanic. Here, in a series of unique photographic portraits and personal statements, 50 elite members of the official Satanic Sluts open up their souls and their bodies to display their sexual fantasies, lusts and twisted ideologies for the first time.

Hardcover. New York, University Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Marble cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Red endpapers. Top edge dyed. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Some slight tanning to a few pages from age. Dust jacket unclipped, has some chipping and agewear (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. The biography of the European eighteenth century occultist and Mason, Count Allesandro di Cagliostro.

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Softcover. NY, Meridian, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 465 pages, b&w illustrations. This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols--from amethyst to Zodiac.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bight dust jacket, 210 pages. Explores the idea of socio-cognitive discontinuity and its problems, The authors, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath, were asked to participate in a series of experiments with children who claimed to be able to bend metal by paranormal means (i.e., fraud). The book investigates metal bending, parapsychology and the quantum theory, and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the 1950s and 1960s, giving particular emphasis to the significance of myth for the group in its reception of science fiction and its engagement with fantastic art. Offering new readings of the art and writings of the later generation of Surrealists, Gavin Parkinson demonstrates how they were connected to the larger cultural and political debates of the time. Whereas earlier Surrealist art and writing drew on psychoanalytic practices, younger Surrealists engaged with contemporary issues, ideas, and themes of the period of the Cold War and Algerian War such as parapsychology, space travel, fantastic art, increasing consumerism in Europe, emerging avant-gardes such as Nouveau Realisme, and the rise of the whole genre of conspiracy theory, from Nazi occultism to flying saucers. Futures of Surrealism offers a unique perspective on this brave new world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Silver titles on spine and blind stamped on front of black cloth covers, 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w including bibliography and index. Updated and expanded edition of material first published in 1985. A fascinating look at the stories and creations of individuals obsessed with outer space and extraterrestrials. The author travelled around an collected the stories and photographs for the book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the Turkish by Thilda Kemal. 220 pages. The influence of mysticism and the occult upon the unsophisticated mind is a major theme in this powerful novel depicting a terrible winter endured by the Yalak villagers of Turkey. After a bad cotton harvest, they are unable to pay their creditor, the shopkeeper, Adil Effendi; and such a break with age-old tradition overwhelms them with shame and guilt. They wait in terror for Adil to come, but he fails to appear and in his inexplicable absence his figure swells until it fills their minds and they become sick with apprehension, sure that some terrible disaster will befall them. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, George Braziller , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, published in association with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages. Hardcover. Fold-out diagram attached to title page. Brown cloth covers w/ edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Marking on title page. Foxing to fly leaves. Hinges cracking. Else pages clean and tight.

Softcover. Monrovia, Upton Sinclair, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages. B&w frontispiece with 283 b&w illustrations throughout. Light foxing on edge. Some staining to bottom of front cover. Slight wear to cover edges. Gold ex-lib stamp on cover. Else clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & light grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with ligh wrinkles. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original embossed brown cloth, 274 pages, plus 14 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Several pages have tears to edges, limited to margins and not affecting text. Mild foxing. some residue to front and rear pastEdowns. Overall very good.

Softcover. Tempe AZ, Original Falcon Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages. Serpents have always been both venerated and feared throughout the world, but perhaps none so much as the Naga in Hindu, Tantric and Buddhist traditions. What are the Naga? They are the Serpent Lords of ancient times, more akin to the Orishas of Santeria than to the remote gods of Olympus. And, like the Orishas, they are far more accessible. B&w illustrations. Clean copy/

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1sr, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 400 pages. Discusses The Nature and State of Possession, Exorcism, and Shamanism. Looks at the history of possession, and its importance to religious psychology. With an appendix on Parapsychology. Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich [1880-1949] was a German psychologist and philosopher at the University Tubingen. He published numerous works on parapsychology and the occult. This is an ex-lib copy with stamping, residue to endpapers. No dust jacket, small sticker on spine, clean interior.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages. Priscillian (died c.385) was a wealthy nobleman of Roman Hispania who promoted a strict form of Christian asceticism. He became bishop of Avila in 380. Certain practices of his followers (such as meeting at country villas instead of attending church) were denounced at the Council of Zaragoza in 380. Tensions between Priscillian and bishops opposed to his views continued, as well as political manoeuvring by both sides. Around 385, Priscillian was charged with sorcery and executed by authority of the Emperor Maximus. The ascetic movement Priscillianism is named after him, and continued in Hispania and Gaul until the late 6th century. Tractates by Priscillian and close followers, which had seemed lost, were discovered in 1885 and published in 1889. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.