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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Carol Graser, as poet-wrangler/host of the long-running Caffe Lena Poetry Night, always puts the spotlight on other poets. But, at last, we welcome her second book of her own wonderful poems. It's a feisty and rich gathering, ranging from humorous poems (The Appendix, The Pitch or Spooky Zoo Sunday.) to many other tones and themes. Among my other favorites in this varied, moving collection include, On the 6th Floor of the VA Medical Center, Dark Language, and The House, a spare beautiful lyric asking, Is she / standing at the mercy of the sky. This poet has a generous heart, keen eye, and memorable ear. Her poems reflect life richly lived, all the while showing a seasoned poetic craft. Her sharply observant and wise poems inhabit the gray areas of life as they grow more complicated. She conveys particularly the fullness of family losses and comforts - sadnesses, honesty, and durable love.-David Graham, author, Honey of the Earth, co-editor, After Confession: Poetry as AutobiographyUncertainties and pain, I know those are the truths about life. But Carol Graser's Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain helps me find strength and courage to keep going. At times heartbreaking, humorous, or surreal, Graser's poetry commits to describing the world, whether nature or people, in some new light. Ultimately, her poetry breaks through the chaos and clatter of life and finds what came before, not poetry but the source of poetry.-Bunkong Tuon, author, Koan Khmer and What is Left Carol Graser weaves fanciful imagery with grim realities in her remarkable new collection, Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain. The poems are sorrowful, yet also witty, strange, and magical. An icicle blinks, loosens, and makes a daring leap. A car prepares to be sold bolt by bolt. A woman gives birth to a tree. The fairy tale scenes mirror real-world dramas that unfold in grocery stores, parking lots, and hospital rooms. Prayer for the Sorrowful Brain is one of those rare collections that combine heartbreak and laughter. I'm dazzled by Graser's dark language of miracles, and will return to these poems again and again.-Jackie Craven, author, WHISH and Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1991; white paper covers with stapled binding; wear and discoloration around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; previous store's sticker on title page; Interior is clean and unmarked; unpaginated.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in light tan coloured cloth with brown title lettering to spine and upper cover in a Good Dust-Jacket that has a chip to head of spine and closed tear to the top edge of the upper cover with some black ink marks to front cover of the dust-jacket.Not Price clipped.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with no leaning to spine.Clean copy internally with some offsetting/Browning to the endpapers,12mo measures 13cm by 16cm First Edition [1930].…

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. soft cover booklet 5 ¼" x 8 13/16" 12 pp. There are no flaws in this little booklet. Mandrake Press Booklets: No. 35 This booklet reproduces an essay subtitled: The Psychology of the Unconscious - For Dinner Table Consumption. In it, Crowley describes his often-cynical take on Jung's theory of dreams and the collective unconscious. It is an extremely rare booklet.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. soft cover booklet 5 ¼" x 8 13/16" 30 pp. There are no flaws in this little booklet. Mandrake Press Booklets: No. 36 This is a series of short extracts on developing magickal prowess. An extremely rare booklet.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Jacket has some dust wear. Pages/boards clean.

1930. (12mo, cloth) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 61pp. Dust wrapper (with slight wear) over glassine over the book; with a very contemporary illustration on the wrapper.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xvi, 188 pp., fold-out illustrations, b/w illustrations A reprint of the original 1817 edition. Translated from the French by J.D. Price. With Observations by J. Christie. In the series First Impressions: A Series of Rare Works by Aleister Crowley and Others.…

First Edition. Poor copy in the original blind-boardered title-bocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 62, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's lover. Sex. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1/500 copies. This copy not numbered. English edition. Translation by J.W. Matthews with a foreword by Arthur Symons and illustrations by Haydn Mackey. 299 pages. 11.75x9 inches. Navy cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. The covers show some very light discoloration, otherwise this is a clean, nice copy in good condition.…

First Edition. Poor copy in the original blind-boardered title-bocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 62, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's lover. Sex. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. 1 Kg.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1930 pocket edition on yellow cloth + owners name to end paper.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 512 of a limited run of 750. In fantastic condition. Clean pages, tight binding, no tears, cover looks great.

Zustand: Sehr gut. First Edition. 16 x 13 cm. (4), 63 pages, (4) Original beige cloth hard cover with original illustrated dust jacket. Foreedge deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Endpapers and edges browned and foxed. Internally clean. Dust jacket a little worn and age darkened. Some small closed tears. Now in protective jacket. From the blurb: Miss America is a picture presented as an autobiography of a modern American woman; and so a picture of all modern women. The satire is gentle and caressing as well as keen-edged with a profound psychological insight. Provenance: From the Library of Edmund Downey, Waterford. Not inscribed.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. N.p. [Thame, England]: Mandrake Press Ltd., 1996. FIRST PRINTING - A Fine, evidently Unread copy (see scan). Bright Gold "Atlantis Bookshop" bookseller ticket to rear wrap. First Edition/First Printing. Soft Cover/Saddle-stitched. Fine. Illus. by Austin Osman Spare Illustrated Throughout. 8vo size - over 8¼" tall.…

Zustand: Wie neu. 64 S. No. 796 von 1000 Expl. Schutzumschlag an den Rändern minimal berieben/bestossen. Leinenbuchdeckel + Innenteil tadellos - u n g e l e s e n - keine Risse, Knicke, Anmerkungen. ! KEIN Mängelexemplar! Altersbedingt minimal nachgedunkelt. Versand aus München F05305 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 240 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 15.88 cm x 1.27 cm x 22.23 cm. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Essex House, Thame, Oxon: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1991. Hand-numbered, Limited to 350 copies. Unread. Touch of age, still FINE in Dust Jacket (see scan). Laid-in Publisher's Original, Double-sided Laminated Announcement (8" x 6"), in Fine condition : "Hardback Edition Limited to 350 copies bound in white Aberlave Buckram. Of the many curious and obscure Crowley works Alexandra is one of the most mysterious. The blanket of silence that Crowley cast over Alexandra subsequently led to much confusion concerning the nature and history of the book. The whole of the original stock was thought to have been destroyed by H M Customs on the grounds of obscenity and lèse majesté but is now available for the first time in this strictly limited edition". First Edition Limited/Hand Numbered. Hard Cover, Buckram, Sewn. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Frontispiece, Drawings, Decorative Drop Cap, etc. 8vo - 9½" tall. …

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Book hardcover gold inlaid cover and spine, marbled endpapers, profuse b&w ills .pp364. Condition No DJ As New marred only by mark owner's name and crossed out owner's name in small handwriting to front endpaper. Appears unread.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. Oxon, England / Edmonds, WA: First Impressions (Mandrake Press Ltd / Holmes Publishing Group), 1992. AS NEW and Remarkable thus. RARE experimental binding. The Limited Leather "Fine Deluxe Edition" First Impressions Series titles of 1992 used a square, quarter leather bound binding. This copy has been expertly bound with a Rounded Spine / Perfectly Concave Fore Edge, with Additional Gold Gilt Rule to Boards (see scans), the same binding style was eventually utilized for the later Limited Edition Bindings of the Austin Osman Spare "From The Inferno To Zos" trilogy (1993/95). One of 50, Hand Numbered copies. Quarter Leather, Buckram Boards with Silk Tie Page Marker. All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. An evidently Unread copy with binding extremely tight, page marker seemingly unmoved since the day it was bound. A facsimile of A.C.'s proof copy held in the Yorke Collection at the Warburg. This is the First volume in the First Impressions Series, and one of the most desirable due to the copious, extensive notes in the Old Crow's hand, as well as the inimitable Crowley penned ownership statements accusing Norman Mudd of thievery two times, once to the fly, and again to the title page. This is also the True First Edition, being that although reaching page proofs in 1915 (here, as per title page "New York Mitchell Kinnerly.1915"), it was never issued. First Edition Deluxe/Ltd/Hand Numbered. Quarter Leather/Buckram Boards. As New/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo size - 9" tall. …

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. The copy is wrapped in its original plastic, which has some small tears.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. The second trade edition of D. H. Lawrence's essay defending his controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', published by The Mandrake Press. The second expanded trade edition of this work, previously published as 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger'.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Fenton Braithwaite, Mill Lane, Lr Manton, N Blackpool'. Braithwaite was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, working at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks and discolouration to the boards. Six puncture marks to the rear board, puncturing through to the rear endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House Thame Oxon 1991. Gr.-8°. Introduced by Keith Richmond and Edited by Anthony Naylor. 216 S. OLwd. m. goldgepr. Deckel u. OUmschlag. This Edition is limited to 350 copies, of which is this Number 198. - Umschlag mit schwachem Lichtrand, sonst gutes Exemplar. Sprache : en. …

Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Black grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean. Numbered on rear of title page. Pages all very clean and nice tight throughout. 171pp. With B&W illustrations. Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys, Llewelyn Powys, William Somerset Maugham.…

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House, Thame, Oxon, England 1990. 4°. [305 x 216 mm]. With 16 illustrations by Austin Spare in the text. 78, [2] w. S. Black cloth with gold-embossed title on the spine and color-illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Copy No. 999 of an limited edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies (this copy is signed by Keith Richmond). - Now for Reality "Was the title of the frontispiece that appeared in Austin Osman Spare's book The Focus of Life published in 1921. It was also the title of the first of a series poems which Aleister Crwoley later wrote to accompany Spare's illustrations for the book. The present volume comprises the complete text and illustrations of The Focus of Life, re-set to incorporate the first ever publication of Aleister Crowley's attendant poems. Now for Reality is thus a unique fusion of the artistry and occult vision of two of the twentieth century's greatest magicians, Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Soare. Included in this volume is an introductory essay on the relationship between Spare and Crowley by Keith Richmond, a student of both men's work" (from dust jacket). - A very good copy, apparently unread. Sprache : en.…

Mandrake Press Ltd., Essex House, Thame, Oxon 1990. 4°. Intoduction by Keith Richmond. Explanatory essays by Terence DuQuesne. Additional Illustration by Dwina Murphy-Gibb. 303 S. Black cloth Hardcover with gilted embellishments on spine in mylar-protected dustjacket. This Edition is limited to 1000 numbered copies, of which this is Number 651. Zu den Riten siehe Bibliotheca Crowleyana S. 23 (b) u. S. 15 (80). - Contains numerous photographs, some of which are unpublished, taken during the performance of the rites at Caxton Hall. Also included are three photographs of Aleister Crowley and two facsimiles of the first handwritten drafts of the rites. From the contents: The Eleusinian Mysteries by Terence DuQuesne. Aleister Crowley and "The Rites of Eleusis" by Terence DuQuesne. The Rites of Eleusis as performed at Caxton Hall by Leila Waddell and Aleister Crowley. The Rite of Saturn. The Rite of Jupiter. The Rite of Mars. The Rite of Sol. The Rite of Venus. The Rite of Mercury. The Rite of Luna. LIBER [.] SVB FIGVRA DCCCCXIII. LIBER 0 VEL MANVS ET SAGITTAE SVB FIGVRA VI. Concering "Blasphemy" In General and The "Rites of Eleusis" in particular by Aleister Crowley. Notes. Bibliography and critical reading list. - Excellent condition, Sprache : en.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. CROWLEY, Aleister. The Forbidden Lecture. Gilles De Rais Thame, Mandrake Press Ltd, 1990 8vo, limited ed. (n. 17/1000), [9], 61 pp., with half-title, title and table of contents. Introduction by Keith Richmond. Buckram with gilt title on spine. Original dust jacket. A fine copy. It contains the revised text of Crowley s conference about French black magician Gilles De Rais, which never happened due to the ban of the author from Oxford. It also includes a previously unpublished article by Crowley titled How I came to be banned at Oxford and an introduction by Keith Richmond.…