Tales Quaint And Queer by Southwold Stephen

Rare book, 2003 iUniverse Trade Paperback. Cover has slight shelf wear, a small tip crease to bottom back. Text is in Like New condition. 360 pages.

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.

West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, 1970. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published West Nyack, NY, Parker Publishing Company, 1970. 8vo., 216pp. Provides instructions for developing parapsychological powers to improve material and spiritual well-being. As new, in as new dust jacket. . Hard. As New/As New. 8vo.

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.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co First Edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, no date. Volume 2 only. The Origin of the Mental Capacities and Dispositions of Man and their Normal, Abnormal and Supernormal Manifestations. Thick 8vo., 6 1/2"x10," dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. vii+361 pages. Very good plus, clean tight copy. Volume 2 only.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..

London: Muller, 1973 price clipped DW has edge rubbing and short tears to the spine ends and corners along the folds, some chipping to spine ends some chipping loss to rear panel, name to fep, interior is generally clean but with some minor handling marks, closed edges fingermarked, 245pp + plates, follow up to Grant's the Magickal Revival deals exhaustively with the theme of The Scarlet Woman as tantric initiatrix in the Thelemic context as well as Left Hand Path tantra, also information on Bertiauxs Voodoo system, includes lengthy and indispensable glossary of Grant's sometimes confusing terms, part of Grants Typhonian Trilogy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Steffi Grant, Austin Osman Spare. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

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.

Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair only dw (lacking spine). 8vo, 216pp, orange cloth stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First trade edition of this important occult work (which had been privately published in 1936). Text in German. Unmarked copy, the fragile dustwrapper is present but spine is lacking, interior pages have toning of acidic postwar paper stock.