Titles beginning with F from JD Holmes, ABAA - ILAB (83 items)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. FIRST EDITION. A Fine Cloth Copy in fine dust jacket. [xxii], 503 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth volume in fine dust jacket. Avianus was a 5th century writer often compared to Aesop. Foreword by Jack Zipes, Illustrations by Neil Welliver. Herein the complete work of Avianus -- forty two elegiac fables in all -- has been rendered into contemporary English verse. Royal 8vo.

Germany: Theion Publishing, 2016. Limited to 700 copies. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY, printed on high quality matte, and bound in black, with gilt embossing. Introduction by David Beth. Three full page original illustrations by Mitchell Nolte. Dr. Vicente's volume explores an important tripartite influence in European witch lore, namely Lovecraftian, Egyptian and Sabbatic. An initiated reading of Lovecraft's fiction, with emphasis especially on the figure of Nyarlathotep, exposes unexplored connections between European witch lore, and the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Anubis. The most novel aspect of the book's premise lies in the unearthing of the deep symbolic resonance between the lore of Witchcraft, relating to the black man of the Sabbath, as well as the Goat of Mendes, and the archaic fertility cult of the ram-headed Banebdjedet, who was a totemistic representation of Osiris-or more precisely Osiris in union with Ra in his netherworld aspect, being the Black Sun. Thus, the volume… Read more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Well illustrated. 280 pages with index. Tall 8vo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. FIRST EDITION. Fine premium cloth volume in fine dust jacket. 250 pages with index. Tall octavo.

New York: Crossroad, 1987. FIRST EDITION. Fine cloth copy in fine dust jacket. 337 pages, indexed. Tall 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition. Fine Cloth Volume in dust jacket. Based on Sabbatai Sevi, the great Apostate. 278 pages. Octavo.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1982. FIRST EDITION. Fine premium cloth copy in fine dust jacket. Looks at a diversity of mythological characters, one being, Odysseus, who follows recurring patterns recognized in most cultures as mythological paradigms. 329 pages. Octavo.

London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1833. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in premium cloth and marbled boards; VERY GOOD+ VOLUME. Taylor had previously written a work on the history of Enthusiasm in 1830, and those researches resulted in this further, deeper study. 515 pages, plus catalogue list. Octavo.

Sequim: Holmes Publishing Group, 2011. Limited to 12 Copies hand-bound in Thyme fibre, in Commemoration of the Central Virginia Writer's Roundup, 2011. A FINE COPY, hand bound monograph in custom papers, with a Patapar overlay. Translated and compiled by Russell Yoder. DeBenneville was a Pennsylvania Rosicrucian and well known in early American esoteric circles as a mystic and healer. This is one of the few alchemical treatises traceable to the American period prior to 1825. Octavo.

London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. Front hinge a bit weak; else, A FINE COPY in original publisher's cloth. Blind stamped in Victorian fashion. Literally translated into English prose, with copious notes, by Henry T. Riley. Bohn Classical Library. [xxiv], 503 pages. Small octavo.

New York: Regan, 2006. FIRST EDITION. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Fascinating account of the colony at Spring Green, WI, who were led by Olgivanna Wright, an earlier follower of Gurdjieff, as far back as the Russian groups. Edge mark. Illustrated. [xii], 689 pages, indexed. Royal octavo.

Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. FIRST EDITION. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Partial contents: "Transcendence and Sexuality in the book 'Baruch'", "Salvation of the Spirit Ruha in Mandaean Religion", "The Apocryphon of John: Sophia, Adam and Yaltabaoth", and the "Scope of Female Figures in Gnosticism". [xx], 180 pages, indexed. Tall octavo.

Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2014. Limited Edition of 100 hand numbered cloth copies only. A FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET. Illustrated jscket cover by Robert Söderberg. A new issue of this excellent journal and review with another round of intriguing topics as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Anton LaVey, Sar Peladan, Fernand Khnopff, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Heinlein, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Wilhelm Reich, Thelema, Satanism, symbolism, psychoanalysis, Dada, apocalyptic witchcraft, psychedelic philosophy, visionary book covers, Cannabis, artificial human companions, sacred prostitution, German Expressionist cinema, slam poetry, independent universities, extraterrestrial influences, astrology, sexual magic, science fiction and more.

Stockholm: Trapart Publishing, 2017. Limited Edition of 100 copies only. A FINE VOLUME in fine dust jacket. This new issue draws extensively on the last year's conference, Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, held in London last year, and will also include the usual gang of authors and artists that Carl assembles so well. As to the symposium, one purpose was to seek to stitch together the ongoing split between psychoanalysis and the occult with contributors Gary Lachlan, Dr. Stephen Reinsert, Peter Grey, Alkistis Dimech, Val Denham, Carl Abrahamsson, Dr. Ingo Albrecht, and others. Octavo.

Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2011. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies of which this is number 314. In quality trade paper; A FINE COPY. Volume features works and art by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Aleister Crowley, William Burroughs, Kenneth Anger, Anton LaVey, Austin Osman Spare, Hymenæus Beta, Ben Kadosh, Freya Aswynn, Andrew McKenzie, Rodney Orpheus, ONA, William Heidrick, Terence Sellers, Zbigniew Karkowski, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren (KREV), Lionel Snell, Stein Jarving, John Alexander, Tim O'Neill, Peter Gilmore, Frater Nigris, Jack Stevenson, Philip Marsh, Beatrice Eggers, Fetish 23, Harry Smith, Jayne Mansfield, Pythagoras, Carl Abrahamsson and much more. Limited Edition is Out of Print. 312 pages. Octavo.

Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2013. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. This volume contains material by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Michael Horowitz, Frater Achad, Timothy O'Neill, Anton LaVey, Freya Aswynn, Nema, Philip Farber, Kendell Geers, Sasha Chaitow, Shri Gurudev Mahendranath a.k.a. Dadaji, Derek Seagrief, Robert Taylor, Marita, Aki Cederberg, Renata Wieczorek, Gary Dickinson, Vera Nikolich, Robert Morgan, Henrik Bogdan, Alexander Nym, Sara George, Anders Lundgren and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as occult London, Tantric quests, rune magic and neurology, Cannabis, LSD, entheogenic influences on culture, the Mega Golem, Aleister Crowley in China, Bogomil Gnostics, decadent French author Josephin Péladan, the birth and death horoscopes of the Great Beast 666, Liber AL vel Legis, the psycho-sexual surrealism of Hans Bellmer, healing, death, the extraterrestrial origins of language, Ernst Jünger's psychedelic… Read more

Stockholm: Edda Publishing, 2016. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies. A FINE CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. This volume contains material by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Frater Achad, Michael Moynihan, Robert Anton Wilson, H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Kendell Geers, Orryelle, many others. Dust jacket cover illustration by Andreas Kalliaridis. 384 pages. Octavo.

Three Hands Press, 2021. First Edition, 400 hand-numbered copies. In original wraps as issued; A FINE COPY. Law of Contagion Monograph Series 5. Illustrated by Johnny Decker Miller. 38 pages, [vii]. Octavo. Out of Print.

London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1934. First Edition. In wraps as issued; light browning to the edges; else, A VERY GOOD CLOTH COPY. Illustrated. 64 pages. 8vo.