Magick in Theory and Practice, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback copy in maroon boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 436pp. Diagrams throughout. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light fading to dustjacket spine. (22/1).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. 21.5cm x 13.5cm. 618 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers. The foundational volume in a total of 11 in which Frater V explores the Western esoteric system of spiritual initiation and presents curricula from the histories of great magical orders. Edited by Paul Hardacre. This copy with a laid in presentation bookplate signed by the author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 500 grams-1 kilos. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780987520685. Inventory No: 0026547.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. [San Mateo], Cafe Press, 2005. Small quarto, [approximately 160] pages with some illustrations (mainly by Austin Osman Spare). Colour-pictorial card covers very lightly scuffed; a fine copy. Number 126 of 666 copies signed by Eurhythmy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Rare Occult title, 1st printing in sky blue cloth, no ISBN. In very good DJ, price clipped. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. DJ lightly worn at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Castle Books, N.d. circa 1970? Still no consensus on this Castle Edition Magick, dates ranging from 1960-1970 with the full blue cloth, most likely the First. This copy, blue textured boards and an evidently Unread volume from the Library of Author/Journalist Peter Haining, dispersed in 2013. This would be a Fine copy if Mr. Haining did not excise L.U.X. Sign 7 [Osiris Slain/The Cross] and 9 [Typhon/The Trident], to use as illustrations in his book "The Magicians : the occult in fact and fiction", utilizing Sign No. 7 for "An Experiment in Necromancy" by Aleister Crowley on p. 65, and in his book "The Black Magic Omnibus" using No. 9 for "The Power of the Job" by Larry M. Harris. Additionally laid-in is the removed illustrated ffep. from the Gerald B. Gardner First Printing of "High Magic's Aid", with the seal "Circle for making Instruments" cut out and corner "Saturn in Aquarius" seal clipped off. Dust Jacket just a touch of age, light extremity wear otherwise Fine (see scan). First Thus. Hard Cover/Sewn. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 8¼" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paris, Printed at Lecram Press [Privately Published by The author], [1929 and 1930, first issue of the first edition]. Quarto, four sections paginated continuously, comprising xxxii, 436 pages with numerous illustrations plus a colour plate depicting the lamen (magical pendant) of the author (tipped in on page 1), a black and white plate of the signs of the grades (loosely inserted between pages 374 and 375), and a colophon leaf in the first and last sections. Overlapping salmon-pink thick textured wrappers lettered and decorated in black on the front panels; all edges uncut; spines a little sunned and rubbed; head of two joints (and the foot of one of them) cracked but stabilised; some covers slightly marked; trifling loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of five leaves at the beginning of the first section, and the top margin of about ten leaves and the rear cover of the last section (with slight and inoffensive surface loss to some covers); minimal signs of age and use; a very good set, rare in any condition. Crowley was dissatisfied with the quality of the binding and the colour plate of this first issue of the first edition, and the bulk of the print-run was trimmed and bound up as one volume in cloth, minus the colour plate, and with a variant title leaf. It lists the author as both The Master Therion and Aleister Crowley, omits the subtitle shown above, and gives a publication date of 1929, which is when just the first section was printed. [4 items].

FIRST EDITION, VERY SCARCE. Published for subscribers only. Super 8vo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, xxxiv + 436 pp., VG (moderate soiling to boards & spine, light rubbing & scuffing to boards, sl fading to spine, light bruising to edges & extrems, teacup stain to front board, light to moderate tanning/soiling & sl foxing to fore & bottom edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sm label residue to base of front pastedown, 2x minor closed tears to terminals, printer's device to tp, sporadic light foxing throughout, minor adhesive residue to gutters of pgs xvi-xvii, moderate marginalia in pencil).