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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 607 pages. 9.25x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Paperback in new condition. 109 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good -. First edition. 607pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped and the spine is mildly toned. Moderate rubbing to the boards, particularly at the extremities. Moisture damage to pages 147-154. Sparse underlining in both pencil and ink. The first scholarly work on Paschal Beverly Randolph, who was among the first Black American novelists, an educator of Freedman during the Civil War, and an indispensable contributor to the addition of occult elements to spiritualism. Included is the full text of his two most important manuscripts on sexual magic.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 607pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Randolph. Glossy illustrated boards. Fine, issued without dustjacket. The first full length biography of Randolph (1825-1875), who had a profound influence and impact on the American occult scene. Long before Aleister Crowley and Wilhelm Reich, Randolph knew, taught, and practiced rituals using sexual energies to channel the forces of nature. Included are chapters on his early life, the development of his occult philosophy, his meetings and feuds with Madame Blavatsky, and appendices on his sex magic. From the Epilogue: "Randolph was learned, brilliant, and charming - and also, as everyone recognized, singular, eccentric, proud, prickly, suspicious, and even paranoid at times. He was a black man who tried with considerable success to succeed in a white world and did do so on his own terms rather than as the merely symbolical Black Man erected by the forces of organized reform. In the world of spiritualism and occultism his was a revolutionary role, and he was truly the precursor of American occultism." The first edition is remarkably uncommon.