Hypnotism: Magnetism, Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics and Magnetic Healing by De Laurence, Dr. L. W - 1910

Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket (as issued). New copy. 8vo, x+142pp, pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Includes index, notes and bibliography. An informed scholarly examination of the Golden Fleece myth. A new copy of the legitimate original 1993 hardcover first printing (not the later print-on-demand version), very light cover wear.

Norrkoping: Library of Love 86-901-027-4-4 [86-901-027-4-4] 1990. (Hardcover) 137pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black leatherette with gilt lettering. Illustrations, photographs. The spine is worn and chipped and the corners are lightly bumped. "After listening to the first lecture of the seminar on the Teachings of the Fire, held in Sweden from August 8-12, 1989, one of the participants asked the following question: 'How is it that such wise and necessary teachings were unknown for centuries, and then were suddenly revealed to the public?' Raul Amon, Teacher of the Fire, replied that we are living at a time when there is a great need for knowledge like that contained in the Teachings of the Fire, which can help reduce the amount of aggression in our surroundings". Time Period 1989. (Arcane, Arcane, Healing, Lecture, Meditation, New Age).

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1975, first printing. 8vo., color frontis+viii+276pp., illustrated. Beige cloth with green titles and cover design, decorative endpapers. Some dust foxing on top edge of page block, otherwise very good plus, clean, tight in very good dust jacket with a small chip and several closed tears. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976, first printing. 8vo., vii+451pp., illustrated with color plates and b/w reproductions. Metalic silver cloth with red titles, pictorial endpapers, chapter sections printed in different color inks. Foxing on edges of page block, else very good, clean, tight in very good dust jacket with edgewear and a closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Billingshurst: The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 35 pages, 23 of which are b&w reproductions of the bookplates. (Also a b&w photograph of the artist as a frontispiece.) Part of a limited run of 500 copies, 140 of which were numbered and signed by the author. This is copy number 75: the number is inked on the reverse of the title page, the signature on the Introduction page that follows it. Very Good in Good jacket. Text a little shelf-soiled in its bottom corner, near the fore-edge. Jacket has faded around the spine, which is also a bit tanned at its foot.

Pune, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published: Pune, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976, first printing. 8vo., x+275pp. +5pp. publisher's ads, illustrated. Gold metallic cloth with gilt titles, decorative endpapers. Minor foxing along edges. Very good in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1975. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1975, first printing. 8vo., frontis portrait+vii+475pp., illustrated. Green cloth with gilt titles and gilt checkerboard cover design, decorative endpapers echoing the design. Printed in brown ink on cream colored paper, a very attractive production. Ten or so pages have a single bracket in the margin, a few pages have light notation (a few words), mild foxing to top and front edges, otherwise very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.

Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Poona, India: Rajneesh Foundation, 1976, first printing. 8vo., color frontis+x+327pp. Gold mtallic cloth with gilt titles, pictorial endpapers. Light bracketing/notations on a dozen or so pages and rear fly leaf, foxing on edges of page block, othewise very good in very good dust jacket with a closed tear, small chip on the top front edge. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket.. Based On The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture Delivered At Newnham College, Cambridge, November 1936; 7.5" x 5"; viii, 67 pages.

Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Press, Olcott, 1940. Soft cover. Very Good. Staple-bound in wraps with illustrated front cover. Inscribed by Ruth Collier's husband, Richard Sharpe, on the inside of the front cover. Light wear along the fore-edge of the front cover. Four full-page illustrations. 24 pages. 11 x 7.75 inches. Three copies noted on OCLC. (Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library, LOC, Brown University). A scarce copy of The Song of the Paramahamsa, a long-form poem by Ruth Collier (1897-1975), for which she won an Olcott Foundation Award in 1940. The poem is accompanied by four of her original illustrations and was published by the Theosophical Press at the Olcott Campus. Ruth Collier was a member of the Portland Lodge (Oregon) and married Richard Sharpe VI [aka Jr] of the New York Lodge on Sept. 9, 1940 [ref: November 1940 issue of The American Theosophist]. Mr. Sharpe was educated at the Parsons School of Design in New York and did the illustrations for two of his Ruth's books.