MORAVIA ALBERTO

More Roman Tales

London, Secker. 1963, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped dust jacket has edge wear with splits at corners and joint ends, half of the title and author name to backstrip missing, top edge dust soiled, 255pp translated by Angus Davidson. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 007603

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Italian Modern Literature English Translation Fiction Novel

MORAVIA ALBERTO

The Wayward Wife and other stories

London, Secker & Warburg. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. hardcover, corners slightly bruised, bookseller stamp on endpaper. page edges toned. DW rubbed to edges with short tears. spine chipped 2mm at head, tiny stain to rear panel, not price-clipped. 221pp. selected Angus Davidson .contents; Crime at the tennis club / End of a relationship / The wayward wife / A bad winter / Home is a sacred place / Contact with the working class / The woman from Mexico / The negro and the old man with the bill-hook. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000047

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Italian Italy Literature Fiction Moravia

SELTZER CHARLES ALDEN

The Ranchman

London, Methuen. 1922, reprint. Original Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. 250pp, paper age browned, brown cloth wilt black titling to cover and spine, a little wear to edges otherwise VG, cheap reprint after UK 1st 1920. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011987

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Western Cowboy British Edition Cheap

REDWOOD ALEC

The Day of the Redeemer

London, Robert Hale. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709161689) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped dust jacket rubbed and handling soiled, closed edges lightly dust soiled or faoxed, internally clean. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007739

Catalogue: Crime & Thriller Fiction

Keywords: Crime Thriller Fiction Novel Modern First Edition 0709161689

CROWLEY ALEISTER

The Bedside Lilliput

London, Hulton Press. 1951, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sunned spine, lightly faded boards, gift inscr. to fep, collection from the lilliput magazine, includes one page piece by Aleister Crowley 'How to Tell an Englishman from an American' and numerous other contributions from assorted British wrtiters as well as cartoons and art work, photos etc 470pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010704

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: British Literary Magazine Twentieth Century Humour Aleister Crowley How to Tell an Englishman from an American

CROWLEY ALEISTER

The Bedside Lilliput

London, Hulton Press. 1951, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. sunned spine, lightly faded boards, name to fep, collection from the lilliput magazine, includes one page piece by Aleister Crowley 'How to Tell an Englishman from an American' and numerous other contributions from assorted British wrtiters as well as cartoons and art work, photos etc 470pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011427

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: British Literary Magazine Twentieth Century Humour Aleister Crowley How to Tell an Englishman from an American

CROWLEY ALEISTER

The Book of the Law Liber al Vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX

Auckland, Ordo Templi Orientis. 2003, First Thus. Printer Wrapper, 64mo - up to 3" tall. REDUCED SHIPPING ON THIS SMALL ITEM, no publisher or date printed with booklet but this was a fund raising printing venture by the Kantharos Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis of New Zealand, printed around 2003 ev. red card wrappers with the title as given in white and a hawks wing and sun disc in black, rear wrapper has Love is the law, love under will and the wing and disc, booklet consists of an A4 purple sheet printed with white text to both sides, 3 columns per side, of the complete text of the Book of the Law, this is pasted down into the wraps and folded down to fit the dimensions of the card wrappers (63 x 85 mm), the inside front of the wrapper carries the Comment bu Ankh-f-n Khonsu, unusual and rare Book of the Law variant ephemera. New/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012534

Catalogue: Occult New Age Metaphysics

Keywords: Aleister Crowley Aiwass Aiwaz the Book of the Law Thelema Current 93 Rare Collectible Ephemera Occult Ritual Magic Religious

CROWLEY ALEISTER

Ksiega Jogi I Magii ( Book Four in Polish )

Warszawa, Pegaz. 1993, First Thus. (ISBN: 8385639101) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. soft cover, 153pp, Magic and Yoga from Book Four translated into Polish, clean copy. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011639

Catalogue: Occult New Age Metaphysics

Keywords: Occult Magic Aleister Crowley Polish Language Thelema 8385639101

CROWLEY ALEISTER

THELEMA The Holy Books of Thelema

York Beach, Weiser. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0877285799) Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first thus edition of the Holy Books, as received by Aleister Crowley, black cloth with yellow Egyptian design and titling, small pen sigil to front paste down, aroma of incense, small bookseller ticket to paste down, xlv 270pp + black and white plate of the Stele of Revealing, preface by Hymenaeus Beta, Caliph of the OTO, unclipped dust jacket (salvaged from a different copy) has been water marked, mainly to the reverse side, with a tide mark showing to the rear flap and fold in, also sunned, book is tidy and has NO water damage, includes facsimile of the holograph manuscript of The Book of the Law, photoplate of both sides of the Stele of Revealing, contains Liber; I, VII, X, XXVII, LXV, LXVI, XC, CLVI, CCXX, XXXI, CCXXXI, CCCLXX, CD, DCCCXIII. Good/Good.

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Book number: 011010

Catalogue: Occult New Age Metaphysics

Keywords: Aleister Crowley Thelema Ordo Templi Orientis Horus Holy Books New Age Occult Spirituality Modern First Edition Kenneth Grant Oto O.T. O. The Book of the Law Liber Al Vel Legis 0877285799

COMFORT ALEX (KOKKOKA)

Art and Social Responsibility; Lectures on the Ideology of Romanticism

London, Falcon Press. 1946, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) unclipped DW light rubbing, book cloth light rubbing to edges, 91pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010678

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Philosophy, Ideology, Art Theory, Romanticism, Classicism, Marxism, Primitivism, Inter-War Society, Twentieth Century Political Theory, First Edition

BEIN ALEX

Arthur Ruppin Memoirs Diaries Letters

London, Weidenfeld. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297993704) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG hardback in a good DW with edge wear including some tears and chipping as well as the front fold in being 'curled' and creased. DW is price clipped but generally complete. 332pp + plates. Arthur Ruppin opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa in 1908. The foremost authority on the sociology of the Jews, encouraged the kibbutz, moshav and moshav shitufi. First professor of sociology at the Hebrew University.Held central position in World Zionist Organization. First part are his memoirs followed by selections from his letters and diaries. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000227

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Zionist Zionism Jew Judaism Israel Zionist Organisation Brit Shalom Arthur Ruppin Kibbutz Moshav Shitufi 0297993704

ATKINSON ALEX & RONALD SEARLE

Escape from the Amazon!

London, Perpetua. 1964, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ill.: Ronald Searle. unclipped dust jacket rubbed and chipped to spine ends and corners with short tears along the folds, gift inscription at head of fep, 105pp, illustrated in pen and ink by Searle, a pun on Amazon the place and the Amazons ( i.e. the fairer sex). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006777

Catalogue: Humour & Cartoons

Keywords: Cartoon Humour Art British Satire Illustrations Ronald Searle Britain Ronald Searle

VEYSEY ALEX

Fergie

Christchurch, Whitcoulls. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0723304696) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. signed to title page by the author Alex Veysey and the subject Fergie McCormick, 193pp, biography of the rugby player, two small tears to top edge of rear panel of dust jacket tidy copy. Very Good/Very Good. association copy.

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Book number: 006461

Catalogue: Hobbies Sport and Leisure

Keywords: Rugby Union Football New Zealand All Black Biography Signed Copy 0723304696

HORNE ALEX

King Solomons Temple in the Masonic Tradition

Aquarian Press. 1973, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. second impression, frontis map and 8 monochrome plates, pp. 352. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012699

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Masonic Freemasonry Solomon

COMFORT ALEX (KOKKOKA)

The Koka Shastra

London, George Allen Unwin. 1964, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Being the Ratirahasya of Kokkoka and other Medieval Indian writings on Love. Excellent copy, deep blue cloth, slight surface mottling to boards. Top edge dusted blue. DW has had just the tiniest part of the flap where the price was clipped. Nice red clean DW but with a few lines of clear residue on it (adhesive?) these are very thin and slight. Rear white panel a little yellowed by age. 172pp + 4pp adverts at rear. Translated and introduced by Comfort Intro by W G Archer. very tidy first edition. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 013338

Catalogue: Erotica & Sexology

Keywords: Sex Sexology Sexuality Kama Sutra Ananga Ranga India Manual