J.D. Holmes, ABAA - ILAB

THE GREEK GENIUS AND ITS INFLUENCE: Select Essays and Extracts.

Cooper, Lane (ed.) · 1928

$44.50 (€40.37 | £33.68 | ¥7,107)

New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1928. Light shelf wear; else, A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY. Text is free from marking or defect. Twenty-one essays by such notables as John Cardinal Newman, Ernest Renan, Gilbert Murray, G.K. Chesterton, among others. 306 pages, indexed. Royal oct...

THE KABBALAH: The Essential Texts from the Zohar.

Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor-. [tr.] · 2021

$21.95 (€19.91 | £16.61 | ¥3,506)

London: Watkins Books, 2021. A FINE HARDCOVER VOLUME. Foreword by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi. Introduction by Golden Dawner Mathers, from his 1887 The Kabbalah Unveiled. 466 pages, annotated. Small octavo.

HENRY MILLER: A Personal Archive; Manuscripts, Letters, Photographs, Memorabilia, Awards, Correspondence, Journals, Booklets, Ephemera, Legal Documents, Furniture and other Miscellaneous Items. Signed by Miller's son and daughter, Tony and Valentine. Together with: A Folder of Price Lists and Ephemera, Broadsheets, Publicity Cards, and Special Printings Sent to JDH by Roger Jackson, plus has personal hand written note.

Jackson, Roger & Ashley, William. (compilers) · 1994

$197.00 (€178.73 | £149.09 | ¥31,462)

Ann Arbor: Jackson, 1994. Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number eight. A FINE CLOTH COPY of this sale catalogue with illustrated boards in original mylar protector. An original publicity post card for one of Miller's books is laid in rear. There ar...

OPUS 2: All Done with Mirrors.

Neal, John. · 2000

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

UK: The Secret Academy. 2000. In original box; A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH VOLUME in fine dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with plates, photos, tables, diagrams, and drawings en texte. [viii], 274 pages, indexed. Tall 4to.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WRITINGS AND OPINIONS OF JUSTIN MARTYR.

John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln. · 1836

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

London: Rivington, 1836. Second edition, revised. Bound in full leather binding with bands and titles; front board detached; light rubbing along spine and edges; internals fine; VERY GOOD. A portion of the lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1821. Text in English with some ex...

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF PLAYING AND OTHER CARDS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM: Accompanied by A Concise General History of the Subject and Remarks on Cards of Divination, and of a Politico-Historical Character.

Willshire, William Hughes. · 1975

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: The British Museum, 1975. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. An essential volume for the study of the cards, with much detail of various Tarot decks, and other divinatory and playing cards. Reprint of the original edition of 1876, and the 1877 supplement, a...

THE BLAZING DEW OF STARS.

Smith, David Chaim. · 2013

$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)

London: Fulgur Limited, 2013. Limited to 900 copies only. MINT PREMIUM CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket, uncirculated, Bound as a large square quarto, this extraordinary work is a complex mystical text, which introduces the practice of Kabbalistic contemplative alchemy. Fourteen...

JACOPONE DA TODI: Poet and Mystic, 1228-1306; A Spiritual Biography. With a Selection from the Spiritual Songs.

Underhill, Evelyn. · 1919

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

London: J.M. Dent, 1919. FIRST EDITION. Light browning to the end papers; otherwise, a Fine Volume in Royal blue cloth, with bright gilt titles. The Italian text of the Spiritual Songs, translated into English verse, by Mrs. Theodore Beck. 521 pages, indexed. Octavo.

KIMONO USED AS THE COSTUME. [Butai no isho]

Syotaro. Hanayagi. · 1965

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

Tokyo: Kyuryudo Publishing, 1965. First Edition. A FINE COPY, hardcover, in a slightly rubbed slipcase. Dozens of extraordinary color plates of Kimono fabric, sashes, and accoutrements. Text in Japanese. 205 pages, [28]. Quarto.

HELLAS: A Spectacle with Music and Dances in Four Acts.

Collin, Rodney. · 1951

$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)

Cape Town: The Stourton Press, 1951. FIRST EDITION. Bookplate of Alexander D'Agapeyeff (known for the undecipherable cipher); Very Good+ Cloth Volume in nice dust jacket, with light stain along lower edge of rear panel. Very scarce, like many of Fairfax Hall's press works, wh...

EAST-WEST FIRE. Schopenhauer's Optimism and the Lankavatara Sutra, An Excursion Toward The Common Ground between Oriental and Western Religion.

Muses, Dr. Charles. · 1955

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

London: John M. Watkins, 1955. FIRST EDITION, Association Copy. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY. Dr. Muses' own hand corrected copy, of which there are many additions, and listed as desk copy on the front free end paper. Bibliography. 67 pages. Small octavo.

GURDJIEFF REMEMBERED.

Peters, Fritz. · 1965

$149.00 (€135.18 | £112.76 | ¥23,796)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Very Good+ to Fine cloth volume in dust jacket. Peters' sequel to his much praised Boyhood with Gurdjieff. 160 pages. Octavo.

BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF.

Peters, Fritz. · 1964

$144.00 (€130.65 | £108.98 | ¥22,998)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in nice dust jacket, with one small spot of darkening on the front panel. I met and talked to Georges Gurdjieff for the first time in 1924, on a Saturday afternoon in June, at the Chateau du Prieure in Fontain...

THE GURDJIEFF WORK.

Speeth, Kathleen Riordan. · 1977

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Turnstone Books, 1977. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD+ CLOTH COPY in nice dust jacket. Illustrated by Thommy Davis. 174 pages. Royal Octavo.

CHTHONIC GNOSIS: Ludwig Klages and his Quest for the Pandaemonic All.

Alknis, Dr. Gunnar. · 2015

$144.00 (€130.65 | £108.98 | ¥22,998)

Munich: Theion Publishing, 2015. Limited to 720 copies only. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY with embossed vignettes on front and rear panels, headbands, and Smythe-sewn. Edited, with annotations, by David Beth. With eight gray-scale photographic reproductions. Klages was a driving ...

THE TEMPLE AT JERUSALEM: A Revelation.

Michell, John. · 2000

$177.00 (€160.59 | £133.95 | ¥28,268)

York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 2000. Limited, numbered edition of 300 copies only of which this is number 272. A FINE CLOTH COPY in fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Bookplate tipped at half title, hand numbered, and signed by Michell. Tall octavo.

THE BACONIAN KEYS.

Arensberg, Walter Conrad. · 1928

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Pittsburgh, PA: Arensberg, 1928. Revised Edition. A FINE COPY, bound in publisher's black cloth, with seventy-one full page plates printed on coat. Arensberg was the author of The Cryptography of Dante. 113 pages, [71 plates]. Small folio.

THE COMPACT OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Two Volume Set in Slipcase with Magnifying Glass

Murray, A.H., with Henry Bradley, W.A. Craigie, C.T. Onions, others. [eds.] · 1971

$188.00 (€170.57 | £142.28 | ¥30,025)

Oxford University Press, 1971. A FINE SET, without defect, and includes slipcase, magnifying glass [necessary], and holding drawer. Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically. The original OED was created between 1884-1928. 4116 pages. Will require an increased shipping fee. Ta...

THE WHEEL OF TIME: Complete Series of Fourteen Volumes, plus Prequel, making Fifteen in Total, All boxed..

Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon. · 0

$149.00 (€135.18 | £112.76 | ¥23,796)

Tor Books, later editions. Quality paper editions, slipcased; A MINT SET, with only the first box free of the original publisher's shrink-wrap, but remaining unread.. Titles include: The Eye of the World; The Great Hunt; The Dragon Reborn; The Shadow Rising; The Fires of Heave...

THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT OF RELIGION AS STUDIED IN SAINT CATHERINE OF GENOA AND HER FRIENDS. Two Volumes.

Hugel, Baron Freidrich von. · 1923

$135.00 (€122.48 | £102.17 | ¥21,560)

London: J.M. Dent, 1923. A VERY GOOD+ CLOTH SET without marking or defect. Frontispiece portraits of St. Catherine and Battista Vernazza. Volume I: Introduction and Biographies (466 pages). Volume II: Critical Studies (422 pages with index). Octavo.