NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First edition. Original green cloth, octavo (6.25 x 9.25 inches), pp vii, 339. 2-page advertisement for "The Evolution of Woman" by Mrs. Gamble at rear. Light wear to covers, contemporary owner name to front fixed endpaper, front inner hinge starting. A very literate and compelling..... More
London: Printed by J. G. for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane, 1659. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio (11 x 7 inches), [12], 23, [22], 24-711 pp., (pagination includes the engraved allegorical title-page); vignette engraving on text title-page, folding engraved emblem plate titled "Tree of the Church." Contemporary full..... More
[np: np, 1931]. Limited first edition. Hardcover. viii, [4], 76 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. More
Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Original pale blue pictorial cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches; 49 pp., illustrated. Contains 6 tales of nature and fairy spirits: A Rainy Day; Poppy; Under the Ocean; The Cloud Fairies; The Gnome; The Salamander. Though the stories are presented as fiction..... More
Los Angeles: Mazdaznan Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. LV, 1 fl, 48 pp., tipped in photo frontispiece; 12mo, original blue cloth with gilt title. A study of Omar Khayyam and his iconic poem by the founder and leader of the Mazdaznan religious cult. More
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 172 pp., octavo, original blue cloth. More
Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, (1944). Eighth edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth, 200 pp, illustrated. Title page states: "Eighth Edition Reduced Facsimile of the First Edition." More
Los Angeles: Manly P. Hall Publications, (1932). Second edition. Hardcover. 254 pp., profusely illustrated, quarto, original red cloth. A mid-career work by the prolific scholar of religion and occult philosophy. More
Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1714. First edition. Hardcover. Original full calf; quarto; [8], 32, 232, 104, [2], 105-163 (but 164), 31 pp. (penultimate section with page 152 misnumbered 151 with error continued). Boards somewhat warped, joints cracked but cords holding, covers scuffed, contemporary ink..... More
[Buffalo, NY: Ellicott Press, 1933]. First edition. Paperback. Black suede decorative wrappers, 7 x 5.5 inches, vi, 138 pp., illustrated with 3 portrait plates of Hamid Bey from photographs, 1 line drawing. 2 reorder coupons for this book bound in at rear. Laid in are 2 admission tickets for lectures..... More
Santa Rosa: Published by the Author / Fountaingrove, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 314 pp. + leaf of adverstisements for other works by the author, frontispiece (mounted albumen photograph portrait of the author with facsimile autograph in blue ink); octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. This..... More
Santa Rosa: Privately Printed, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 136 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles. Thomas Lake Harris (1823-1906) born in England, his family emigrated to the US when Harris was 5 years old. At the age of 20 he became a Universalist minister for a year before..... More
Santa Rosa: Privately Printed, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 79 pp.; octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles, floral patterned endpapers. With pencil inscriptions on front blank leaf thus: "Presented to Orange Blossom by T. L H. [i.e., Thomas Lake Harris] May 31st, 1886" and below: "Mrs. Mary Buckner's Book" and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1945). Early reprint. Hardcover. xvi, 504 pp., with illustrations from photographs, line drawings by Theresa Garrett Eliot; octavo, original cream cloth with title stamped in green. Dustjacket. "The tracing of the evolution of the gods of men in a search for the innermost motive of society."..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth and patterned boards; octavo, xi, 286 pp.,color frontispiece from photograph, page decorations by Mac Harshberger. The life of Buddha told as a story narrative. More
London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1930). Second printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, original tan cloth, 126 pp. Fine in very good pictorial dustjacket with slight chipping to corners and spine ends. With a Preface by Bishop Leadbeater and an Introduction by E. L. Gardner. Clairvoyant studies of the nature spirits. This was..... More
London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1927). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, original tan cloth; 112 pp. Very fine in very good pictorial dustjacket with slight chipping to corners and spine ends. Further clairvoyant studies of the kingdom of Faery using the methods of training taught by Theosophy. More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1922. Third printing. Hardcover. x, 85 pp., small octavo, original maroon cloth. The founder of the Religious Science Movement's 2nd book. More
Boston: American Unitarian Association, (1910). First edition. Hardcover. [3], 42 pp., small octavo, white cloth and gilt blue boards. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "'The force of arms must be kept far from the gospel,' David Starr Jordon, Palo Alto, California, February 24, 1911." David..... More
Los Angeles: The Magazine Theosophy, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. [5], 237 pp. + 7-page catalog of Theosophical publications; 12mo (5.75 x 4.25 inches), full limp leather with gilt title and ornament. Rare original edition of this volume on the Bhagavad-Gita by one of the founders of the original Theosophica Society..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pale green cloth with cover titles stamped in yellow, pictorial paper inset on front cover; (xvi), 215 pp., illustrated with 12 full-page plates. Minor cover wear, else fine. A selection of myths and legends from the original inhabitants..... More
Washington, DC: C. P. Farrell, 1882. Second printing. Hardcover. 126 pp. 12mo (6.75 x 5 inches), green cloth over thin card, gilt title. This copy ex libris J. Leroy Nickel (1895-1959) with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. Nickel was known as one of the largest land barons in California..... More
New York: Redfield, 1854. Early reprint. Hardcover. 212 pp. + 22-page catalog at rear, frontispiece, many engraved illustrations in the text; small octavo, original purple cloth. A well-written dissertation on Rome's catecombs and their significance in the early Christian church. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Original blue cloth,octavo, xxiii, 555 pp. Catalogue at rear. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. From the publisher's "History of Civilization" series. More
Philadelphia: A. J. Holman CO., 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo, original maroon cloth; xvii, 630 pp., map endpapers. Driven by the belief that Aramaic was the language of Jesus, native Aramaic speaker and member of the Assyrian Church of the East, biblical scholar George M. Lamsa (1892-1975) translated the..... More