Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1887. First edition. Original red cloth, octavo (5 x 7.5 inches), pp viii, 96. Slight fading to spine, else very good. Frazer's first book, which began as an article for a new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. More about TOTEMISM
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 about THE GOD-IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS, or Sex in Religion
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 about Hiera Dakrya (in Greek), Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. THE TEARS, SIGHS, COMPLAINTS, AND PRAYERS...
[np: np, 1931]. Limited first edition. Hardcover. viii, [4], 76 pp.; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt title. More about THE MASTER'S SECRET OF POWER: Being Modern Studies in the Secret Principles Underlying the Gospel...
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 about THE BOOK OF REAL FAIRIES. (Lotus Leaves for the Young No. III
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 about OMAR KHAYYAM IN HIS RUBAIYAT: With a true History, Life and Biography of the Persian Poet,...
Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., (1943). Paperback. 12 mo, original orange wrappers, (47) pp., illustrated. Signed by the author on first (dedication) page: "Kindest Regards, Manly Hall." More about LADY OF DREAMS: A Fable in the Manner of the Chinese
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 about NATURAL RELIGION INSUFFICIENT; AND REVEAL'D NECESSARY TO MAN'S HAPPINESS IN HIS PRESENT STATE;...
[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 about MY EXPERIENCES PRECEDING 5,000 BURIALS. (with original ephemera
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 about GOD'S BREATH IN MAN and in Humane Society
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 about IN DAWNRISE: A Song of Songs. Dedicated in Faith Love and Adoration to Our Lady Christa-Yessa One...
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 about THE JOY BRINGER: Fifty Three Melodies of the One-in-Twain. February - March, MDCCCLXXXVI
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, no date (circa 1925). Early reprint. Hardcover. xii, 372 pp.; small octavo, original brown cloth. Originally published in 1891, this Stokes edition is bound from the sheets of the 1925 Methuen (London) edition. More about THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALES: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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 about THE WISDOM TREE
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 about THE LIFE OF BUDDHA: According to the Legends of Ancient India
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 about FAIRIES AT WORK AND AND PLAY: Observed by Geoffrey Hodson
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 about THE KINGDOM OF FAERIE
New York: (1935). First edition. Hardcover. xiv, [1], 176 pp., original blue cloth, dustjacket. A study guide to the tenets of Ernest Holmes' New Thought movement "Religious Science." More about QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE SCIENCE OF MIND
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 about CREATIVE MIND AND SUCCESS
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 about ULRICH VON HUTTON: "Knight of the Order of Poets."
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 about NOTES ON THE BHAGAVAD-GITA: The First Seven Chapters by William Q. Judge, The Remaining Chapters...
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 about MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE GREAT LAKES
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 about A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: Being a Popular Account of the Formation and Development of the Canon
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 about THE CATACOMBS OF ROME: As Illustrating the Church of the First Three Centuries
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 about HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF CHRISTIANITY: From Tertullian to Boethius