Occultism from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Boston: William J. Margolis, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Little magazine edited by "Beatitude" publisher William J. Margolis from Boston, with significant contributions from Beat-affiliated West Coast writers. Includes three closely-printed pages of excerpts from a 1960 journal by writer Stuart Z. Perkoff discussing Aleister Crowley, a rare… Read more about this item

Gillette, NJ: Heptangle Books, 1988. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Near VG, lacks dw. 8vo, xxviii+212pp, gray cloth with spine stamped in gold. This 1988 Heptangle Books edition is reproduced lithographically from their important letterpress first edition (of 1984) of this occult classic. Text is unmarked but shows moderate soil and wear from operational use.

Engerda, Germany: Arun, 1999. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 272pp, printed wrappers. A detailed study of the enigmatical German esotericist. Text in German. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

Paris: Bizarre, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. An illustrated investigation of Shakespeare and tarot cards. In French. Very nice unmarked copy, minor wear and outer soil.

New York: The Akashic Record, 1991. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, [vi]+10pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of this chapbook publishing a translation by George Scrivani of a prophetic text by Gustav Meyrink. Design and typography by Studio 31. Unmarked copy, faint sunning and minor soil at spine.

Kent, OH: Viscerally Press, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 12pp, sewn wrappers. Nicely designed small-press chapbook containing three uncommon poems by the nineteenth-century occultist Eliphas Levi, translated by Kabbalistic poet and artist Jack Hirschman. Covers feature designs by actor/scenester Dean Stockwell. Unmarked copy, light stain to front cover.

New York: Thames and Hudson Inc, 2003. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine (as new) in Fine (as new) dustwrapper. 4to, 240pp, red cloth with spine stamped in black, printed dustwrapper. An exceptional first-edition hardcover copy of this excellent overview. Includes a chapter on Aleister Crowley and on the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Not a remainder, jacket… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Echelon Book Publishers, Inc, 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Mass market paperback, 192pp, printed wrappers. An uncommonly fresh copy of this rare and bizarre exploitation paperback biography of Crowley, written by the enigmatic "James Harvey" in an exceedingly florid, quasi-literate style ("A Victorian sex-demon who believed in perversity as a… Read more about this item