Oliver Marlow Wilkinson (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 81 pages. Illustrated. Richard Luckett "T F Powys: Aspects of his Language" / Michael Roulstone "Llewelyn Powys" / T J Diffey "John Cowper Powys and Philosophy" / Timothy Hyman "The Religion of a Sceptic" / Glen Cavaliero "Phoenix and Serpent: D H Lawrence and John Cowper Powys" / Oliver Marlow Wilkinson "John Cowper Powys in Love" (SL#75/2).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A play, based on Acts XVI, developed by Community House (part of the Iona Community) in Glasgow. Stapled booklet, covers worn, no inscriptions, good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Maroon cloth hard cover - Fine. In DJ - light crinkle to top/small chip bottom rear/Good+. 251 pages with additional illustrations. Content Fine. Enclosed is a letter to Professor (John) Bayley which accompanied the book. John Bayley had reviewed volume I and Wilkinson asks him if he, perhaps with his wife Iris Murdoch, would review this volume. This book is from the personal library of John Bayley and Iris Murdoch. (493g) Photo on request. As the proceeds from the sale of this book go to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black boards, mustard cloth spine wrap, black spine titles, lt shelf wear. Black endpapers. Pages crisp, clean; no writing. Dj lt. edge wear; in new clear sleeve. A collection of portraits on the some the most fantastic living beings to have walked the earth. Written w/great intellectual excitement and accuracy, filled w/ insights into the mysterious natures and accomplishments of Crowley, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, Rasputin, Tesla, Dashwood, Geller, Mesmer, and Nostradamus. 236 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Condition: New. 2017. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. 2017. Hardcover. . . . . .

First edition thus, first printing. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Housed in a marbled card slipcase with a decorative title label to the upper board. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities with a little bumping. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps. Complete with the very good dustwrapper that is a little creased at the edges. In the fine slipcase. Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies. Biographical sketches of seven of Louis Marlow's literary friends: Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys, Llewelyn Powys and William Somerset Maugham. First published in 1953 by The Richards Press, this Mandrake Press edition includes a new introduction by Marlow's son, Oliver Marlow Wilkinson, and four appendices containing material relating to Marlow's life and work. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1977 at title and copyright page; no other indications. Red orange textured boards, bright gilt spine titles, slight shelf wear. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Scarce dust wrapper, near fine; unclipped 3.95 net, protected in new clear sleeve. Unique 1970's mustard yellow wrapper with borders, stylized ank with cross, beams of sun and earthen red and orange titles emanating; red titles at spine area. Near fine intriguing rarity and same wrapper. This anthology is a straightforward approach to some of the individuals that have baffled and intrigued from ancient to modern times. Each essay focuses on a mysterious persona who appeared to have special powers not easily explained. The spoon-bender, the 18th century founder of the Hell-Fire Club, the sinister monk of Imperial Russia, the "beast" of Black Magic, the astounding inventor who harnessed electricity and other, etc. The facts and myths are presented to the reader without romanticising so you can make up your own mind. From back panel: The occult revival which began in the early 1960's is a reaction against the worst absudities of modern science, its insistence that the univers is meaningless and purposeless, that evolution is a matter of chance, that man must be judged purely as an animal - or worse still, as a bundle of mechanical reflexes. Soon to ba Television series produced and devised by Hal Hamilton. Introduction and two essays by Colin Wilson, on Rasputin and Gurdjieff. Chapters by Christmas Humphreys on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kit Pedler on Nikola Tesla, Oliver Marlow Wilkinson on Aleister Crowley (Rest In?), Pat Silver and Jesse Lasky Jr. on Hell Fire Dashwood, Uri Geller, and Nostradamus, and, Peter Tompkins on Franz Anton Mesmer. Bibliography at back. Printed in Great Britain. 206 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. …

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.