The Poisoner and I need to clear out some room in our overflowing bookshelves and have selected a number of works from our collection for sale featuring rare, antiquarian, and limited edition occult books. We are only entertaining serious offers. No reserves or partial payments – the first firm order gets the book or books of their choice. Payments by Paypal and credit card only – no exceptions. All prices are in USD and do not include the cost of shipping. The price of shipping is dependent on the buyer’s country of residence and how many books are purchased in one order and can range from $20-100.
To request a book email: blackartsfoundry at gmail dot com
Crowley, Aleister. The Equinox Vol. 1-10. Samuel Weiser, 1992.
Limited Edition of 750 sets. Very good condition – each volume is like new. Hardcovers with original mylar covers. Out of print since 1998.
“The Equinox (subtitle: “The Review of Scientific Illuminism”) is a series of publications in book form that serves as the official organ of the A∴A∴, a magical order founded by Aleister Crowley. Begun in 1909, it mainly features articles about occultism and magick, while several issues also contain poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, and biographies.”
$2000 USD or best offer
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Crowley, Aleister. The Equinox Vol. 3 No.1. Samuel Weiser, 1992.
Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Very good condition. Hardcover with mylar cover, torn in one corner.
“First published in Detroit in 1919, the legendary Blue Equinox was Crowley’s first attempt to publicize the principles and aims of the magical secret society Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and its allied order the A.A. In it, Crowley laid out the esoteric, social, ethical, and philosophical ideas that he believed provided the framework for a new ethics and the liberated morality of the future. Upon publication, the book was threatened with suppression by the authorities of the day. Many of the papers in the Blue Equinox anticipated social liberties we tend to take for granted today.”
$230 USD or best offer
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Crowley, Aleister. The Winged Beetle. Teitan Press, 1992.
Very good condition, like new. Hardcover.
“The Winged Beetle is a collection of poetry by Crowley with some extremely memorable dedications whilst the ‘Glossary of Obscure Terms’ gives an alarming and rather blasphemous alternative meaning to the third stanza of the main dedication, which could probably have only been published in this encrypted form.”
$200 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. The Vision and the Voice. Israel Regardie (Sangreal Foundation), 1972.
First Edition. Good condition. Hardcover, no dust jacket – spotting along top.
“The Vision and the Voice is the source of many of the central spiritual doctrines of Thelema, especially in the visions of Babalon and her consort Chaos (the “All-Father”), as well as an account of how an individual ego might cross the Abyss, thereby assuming the title of “Master of the Temple” and taking a place in the City of the Pyramids under the Night of Pan.”
$200 USD or best offer
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Crowley, Aleister. Astrology: With a Study of Neptune and Uranus. Samuel Weiser, 1974.
Good condition. Hardcover. Minor tears to dust jacket. Spotting on outside of pages – interior is in perfect condition.
Crowley’s major astrological work, Liber DXXXVI, annotated and with an Introduction by Stephen Skinner.
$100 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. The Stratagem and Other Stories. Temple Press, 1990.
Very good condition. Dust jacket – very good condition.
“A small book of short stories. The book was originally published in 1929 and one of a series of Crowley’s works to be published by Mandrake Press after a difficult period in which Crowley found it difficult to publish due both to his lack of funds, and his notoriety.”
$80 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. De Arte Magica. Sure Fire Press, 1988.
Very good condition, chapbook.
“This is Liber CDXIV (Book 414) and was originally written by Crowley between Sep 6 and Oct 8, 1914. Although this document was released and widely disseminated by Ordo Templi Orientis under the same limited license as the other text files, it is now considered by the Order to be under seal of a particular degree.” — The Hermetic Library
$70 USD – SOLD
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Crowley, Aleister. Absinthe: The Green Goddess. Contra/Thought, 1994.
Very good condition. Chapbook, fine paper.
An article on the Green Fairy by Crowley first Published in “The International” Vol XII No. 2 in New York in 1918 with experiences, prose, history and lore on the infamous liqueur made with wormwood.
$30 USD - SOLD
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Crowley, Aleister. The Banned Lecture: Gilles de Rais, to have been delivered before the Oxford University Poetry Society by Aleister Crowley on the Evening of Monday February 3rd, 1930. Black Moon Publishing, 1985.
Very good condition. Chapbook.
$20 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. Tarot Divination: A Description of the Cards of the Tarot with Their Attributions; Including a Method of Divination by Their Use. Samuel Weiser, 1985.
Good condition. Chapbook.
$20 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. Energized Enthusiasm: A Note on Theurgy. Samuel Weiser, 1979.
Good condition. Chapbook.
$15 USD – firm
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Crowley, Aleister. Konx om Pax: Essays in Light. Yogi Publication Society.
Very good condition. White chapbook.
“First published in 1907. The name Konx Om Pax is a phrase said to have been pronounced in the Eleusinian Mysteries to bid initiates to depart after having completed the tests for admission to the degree of epopt (seer).”
$120 USD – firm
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Frater Achad. Thirty-One Hymns to the Star Goddess Who is Not. Will Ransom, 1975.
Very good condition. Hardcover.
“This work contains thirty-one hymns to the Star Goddess who is not. The quotations attributed to the Star Goddess in this volume are from Liber Al vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX as delivered by LXXVIII unto DCLXVI. Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886-1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to A∴A∴ who “claimed” the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He also became an O.T.O. initiate, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia.”
$120 USD - SOLD
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Frater Achad. The Chalice of Ecstasy Being a Magical and Qabalistic Interpretation of the Drama of Parzival. Yogi Publications Society, 1976.
Very good condition. Hardcover.
“Achad’s analysis of Wagner’s Parzival as it relates to the Path of Initiation and Thelema. Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886-1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to A∴A∴ who “claimed” the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He also became an O.T.O. initiate, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia.”
$45 USD - SOLD
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Gamache, Henri. The Master Key to Occult Secrets: A Study of the Survival of Primitive Customs in a Modern World with Sources and Origins. Sheldon Publications, 1945.
First edition manuscript, typewritten rectos and bound with red string. Cover papers in acceptable condition, crumbling with age and sunned. Interior pages in good condition – darkening with age, one small tear on the first page.
Very rare compared to the 1984 reprint. Part of American Hoodoo history. For more information see these links:
- http://sarahannelawless.com/2009/09/19/the-master-key-to-occult-secrets/
- http://www.luckymojo.com/young.html
$120 USD – SOLD
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Gardner, Gerald. High Magic’s Aid. Michael Houghton, 1949.
First edition, rare. Very good condition with dust jacket. DJ has a tear along top and is scuffed at corners but is in otherwise good condition.
“The standard work on Wicca, Witchcraft and Paganism by ‘The Father of Wicca’ Gerald B. Gardner. Set in mediaeval times and told as an exciting adventure story in the manner of ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘High Magic’s Aid’ takes the reader on a quest to uncover the ancient, lost and forbidden secrets of Magic and Witchcraft. The word ‘wicca’ comes from the Old English ‘wise’. Gerald Gardner’s main achievement was the revival of the rituals and magical beliefs of Ancient Britain.”
$300 USD – SOLD
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Grant, Kenneth. The Magical Revival. Samuel, Weiser, 1973.
Very good condition, missing dust jacket. Hardcover.
“The first book in Grant’s “Typhonian Trilogy,” in which he analyses the links he believes exist between various ancient traditions and the occult practices of Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Dion Fortune.”
$125 USD – firm
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Grant, Kenneth. Outer Gateways. Skoob Books Publishing, 1994.
First Edition. Very good condition. Dust jacket – very good condition.
“The first volume of the third of Grant’s ‘Typhonian Trilogies.’ In this volume Grant revists and develops the themes of his earlier works, and examines the reception of “The Book of the Law” and offers a reinterpretation of the work in the light of his own Typhonian mythos.”
$150 USD – firm
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Grant, Kenneth. Hecate’s Fountain. Skoob Books Publishing, 1992.
First edition. Very good condition. Dust jacket – very good condition.
“An original survey of magical thought and practice, including explorations of the work of Crowley, Michel Bertiaux and others, drawn from experienced gained by Grant in the course of his workings with the New Isis Lodge.”
$200 USD - SOLD
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Huson, Paul. Mastering Witchcraft: A Practical Guide for Witches, Warlocks, and Covens. G.P. Putnam Son’s, 1970.
First edition hardcover with dust jacket. Popular book club edition. Very good condition. Dust jacket – very good condition, minor wear at corners.
“Mastering Witchcraft is one of the best how-to manuals for those wishing to practice traditional European Witchcraft as a craft rather than a New Age religion. Starting from first principles, Huson instructs the novice step by step in the arts of circle casting, blessing and banning, the uses of amulets and talismans, philters, divination, necromancy, waxen images, knots, fascination, conjuration, magical familiars, spells to arouse passion or lust, attain vengeance, and of course, counter-spells to exorcize and annul the malice of others.”
$110 USD – SOLD
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Knight, Richard Payne. Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus. Dilettante Society, 193[?].
Limited edition hardcover, no. 311/625. Good condition, bumped corners on cover board. Reprint of the original text on phallic worship from 1786 complete with original erotic plates.
“An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus, lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters, one from Sir William Hamilton … to Sir Joseph Banks … and the other from a person residing at Isernia; to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients.”
$130 USD – firm
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Mackenzie, Donald A. Teutonic Myth and Legend. Gresham Publishing, 1915.
Very good condition. Olive green hardcover, illustrated, rubbed corners. Possible first edition.
An Introduction to the Eddas and Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, etc. Full of lore and wonderous Heathen tales.
See the full contents here: sacred-texts.com/neu/tml/index.htm
$80 USD – firm
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Merivale, Patricia. Pan the Goat-God: His Myth in Modern Times. Harvard University Press, 1969.
First edition. Very good condition. Green cloth hardcover missing dust jacket.
“In this detailed thematic study of Pan, the god of woods and shepherds (and who has the hoofs and legs of a goat), Patricia Merivale chronicles the many appearances of Pan in modern literature, giving the main emphasis to English writing, where he is in fact most often encountered. Contains 16 pages of glossy B/W illustrations of Pan.”
$80 USD – SOLD
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Platt, Charles. Card Fortune-Telling. A lucid treatise dealing with all the popular and more abstruse methods. W. Foulsham & Co., 1925.
First edition hardcover. Very good condition. Red boards have not faded. Age spotting on paper edges.
A must-have for the playing card fortune-teller. Contains meanings, card history and folklore, different reading methods, and spreads. B/W illustrations.
$50 USD - SOLD
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Porta, John Baptista. Natural Magic: A Neapolitane in Twenty Books Wherein are Set Forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Science. Basic Books, 1959.
Very good condition. Third printing. Exact facsimile of a 1658 printing. Hardcover of partial cloth and paper boards with heavy slip case printed with the book’s original title pages, worn edges.
“A work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Natural Magic was revised and considerably expanded throughout the author’s lifetime; its twenty books (Naples 1589) include observations upon geology, optics, medicines, poisons, cooking, metallurgy and magnetism as well as cosmetics, perfumes, gunpowder and invisible writing. Natural Magic is a fine example of pre-Baconian science. Its sources include the ancient world learning of Pliny the Elder and Theophrastus as well as numerous scientific observations made by Della Porta. Natural Magic was translated and published in English in 1658.”
$120 USD - SOLD
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Schulke, Daniel A. Ars Philtron: Concerning the Aqueous Cunning of the Potion and Its Praxis in the Green Arte Magical. Xoanon Press, 2008.
Limited edition printing of 720. Second edition. Very good condition, new red hardcover.
“Ars Philtron was the incepting grimoire of the Verdelet of the Cultus Sabbati. Its primary foci are Sabbatic-alchemical gnosis as manifest through the medium of the Potion, and the applications of the principle formulae of Furnace, Vessel, and Water. Its method and praxis concern the principal Sabbatic philtre types, their arcana, pharmacoepia, formulation, and ritual use. As a grammar of the Art Magical, the work instaurates the Philtre as an emanation of the Vinum Sabbati, the manifest elixir of witch-power.”
$300 USD – SOLD
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Semple, Gavin W. A Poisoned Chalice: The Death of Robert Cochrane. Reineke Verlag, 2004.
Limited edition chapbook, no. 41/100. Signed by author. Very good condition, slight bend in cover but no crease.
An essay containing the details of Robert Cochrane’s (aka Roy Bowers) death. Collectible by those interested in Robert Cochrane and his teachings. Contains a photo of his grave site.
$80 USD – SOLD
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Valiente, Doreen. Where Witchcraft Lives. Aquarian Press, 1962.
First edition hardcover. Very good condition – some age spotting on edges. Dust jacket intact with protective mylar cover – very good condition minus mild humidity damage (bleeding of colour).
“Doreen Valiente was one of the most respected English witches to have influenced the modern day Pagan movement. In this book she examines Witchcraft in Sussex, the role of the Horned God, hares and the Moon, folk-rites and the powers of Witchcraft. She is hereby laying the foundations of the modern day Witchcraft movement. As Gerald Gardner is now commonly thought of as the ‘Father’ of contemporary Witchcraft, so Doreen is known affectionately as the ‘Mother of Modern Witchcraft’.”
$1000 or best offer
