Occult And Related from Tom Heywood Books

French novelist Zenaide Fleuriot's work about Nostradamus. An excellent copy of the 1875 first edition, nicely bound. Pages are clean and bright, no real wear or foxing at all, unusually for this edition. A neat previous owner inscription on front FEPfrom 1879. No other marks. Covers are half leather with gilt on spine . Boards all good just a little… Read more about this item

A copy of French writer Eugene Bareste's work on Nostradamus. Soft cover, stated 1840 printing. Single volume, in the French language. Good condition. Pages are bright and clear and just natural age wear. Original tissue in place after the print of Nostradamus. One early page possibly trimmed. Spine creased through many readings and a slightly 'loose' feel but actually all… Read more about this item

A nice two volume set from 1834 of Bonnellier's work on Nostradamus, in French. Pages are very good in both volumes, book 1 has more foxing while book 2 quite clear of this. No inscriptions, stamps, notes etc. Green binding, unclear if contemporary. Covers good, just the usual crumpling at extremities which is to be expected. This book is from… Read more about this item

A nice copy of the two French language volumes of this work bound into one, in half leather. Pages are uncut, clean and bright. A small closed tear on Front FEP but otherwise excellent. Cover is very nice with very little wear. This book is from the collection of famed occult writer Fred Gettings (provenance available). A really nice copy… Read more about this item

A very nice copy in half leather binding and top edge gilt of this French language examination of Nostradamus' predictions. Published in Noyon in 1911, in very nice condition. Pages have tanned edges but are otherwise clean and bright. No inscriptions or notes. Spine binding is very elegant. Corners have slight crumpling but altogether excellent for its age. A great… Read more about this item

A rare beautiful copy of this classic modern overview of all things occult. This is the Guild Publishing first of 1985 and is NF/NF. Compiled by some the great names in the field at the time including Lynn Picknett, J. Allen Hynek, Brian Inglis, Colin Wilson and Brian Innes. The book covers a huge range of fascinating topics in well… Read more about this item

Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. An exceptionally good copy of Gettings' excellent 'visual panorama of the worlds of magic, divination and the occult'. Pages are totally clean and bright: no markings, no inscriptions and no foxing. NOT an ex library book. This is the 1987 first thus edition. DJ is excellent: unclipped, perhaps the most minor shelfwear and… Read more about this item

A very nice copy (undated, assumed 1930s) of the rare special edition Psychic Book Club printing of Thomas's book looking at the validity of life after death. Pages are excellent: bright and clear with no markings or inscriptions at all and just minor ageing. Binding tight. Covers are very good, commensurate with age with a little general age wear… Read more about this item

A very nice copy (Near Fine / G +) of the vanishingly rare true first edition (1954) of H C Randall-Stevens' most well known work, complete with unclipped dust jacket and with the rare foldout present and complete. Randall-Stevens was a British singer and war veteran, who went on to found an esoteric order known as The Knights Templar of… Read more about this item

An excellent copy (NF, VG+) with DJ of the rare true first (UK, 1974) of Levi's work examining links between the Old and New Testaments by comparing the Qabalistic imagery and concepts inherent in both "The Prophecy of Ezekiel" and "The Apocalypse of St. John." He explains how the description of Solomon's temple, the great sanctuary of the true… Read more about this item

A nice copy of the hardback 1969 edition of Rudolf Steiner's work which strives to define, categorize and explain various manifestations of the occult, and to explain them with science. NOT an ex library book. Pages are clean and bright ( a couple of pages near the front with just a brown spot or two), with a small inscription on… Read more about this item

A very nice copy of the 1992 edition of Grant's book, in near fine condition with a very good dust jacket. Grant's excellent examination of Crowley's desire to free man from bondage by showing how to invoke his latent genius, his Hidden God. This is a detailed study of Crowley's sexual magick and esoteric rituals. This is a very good… Read more about this item

A very nice copy of the first edition of this classic overview of Britain's many myths and legends. A seminal and much referenced work with an impressive range covering all the major topics in its field. An essential item for the collector of all things esoteric, strange, occult and mythical. Pages are exceptionally clean and bright with no marking, inscriptions,… Read more about this item

A very nice copy of this compilation edition of two of renowned British occult writer Butler's books. Butler studied with Annie Besant and Dion Fortune amongst others, and these books continue a theme of his around liberating what he saw as our innate magical powers. A fascinating collectors' item from the 'Grand Maistre of English Occultism'. Pages have tanning, most… Read more about this item

A very nice copy of the 1947 Subscriber's Edition. A study of the history of Western idealism in the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions as continued by outstanding creative thinkers from St. Thomas Aquinas to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hall looks at a range of profoundly influential philosophers and mystics. Book is in very good condition. Pages are bright and clean, just… Read more about this item

Well known Canadian mystic, author and astrologer Hall here looks at the core underpinning aspects of philosophy, in a work whose subtitle is the 'direction of mental activity in the science of perfection'! This is a very nice copy of the 2nd (enlarged) edition of 1949. Pages are remarkably crisp and bright, by far the best we have seen in… Read more about this item

A lovely copy of one of British Occultist Dion Fortune's milestone works. In it she reviews and expands on the Qabalah, the underlying philosophical framework of many magical societies in the Western esoteric tradition. This is the ninth impression, published in 1970. Pages are excellent: front FEP has a rather nice private ex-libris sticker and a small date inscription (see… Read more about this item

British spiritual healer Harry Edwards here examines prolific Welsh medium Jack Webber. Webber was never properly investigated by very objective critics, and Edwards is fully supportive of the medium's supposed gifts. The book is complete with a range of photographs of Webber apparently in mid trance. A nice copy of the first edition, with DJ. Book pages are excellent: bright… Read more about this item

An exceedingly rare, lovely copy of the 1970 Rider/Aquarian edition (first thus) of Lewis Spence's classic book on Atlantis. With a very good unclipped dust jacket, and pages which are immaculate. Spence was a Scottish folklorist and occultist, and became well known for his works on folklore, myths, legends and the occult in general. A well educated journalist, Spence researched… Read more about this item

A very nice copy of McCreery's serious and considered examination into psychic phenomenon and how these manifest in the physical world. Pages are excellent: clear, bright, no markings or inscriptions at all. Paper DJ is very good, just a very small enclosed tear at top front, some light rubbing here and there, and the price though unclipped is scribbled out.… Read more about this item