La-Bas by J.K. Huysman

Antiquarian / Second hand

Second edition published by John M. Watkins, London, 1956. Limited to 500 copies. First edition was published by Watkins in 1898. 
Hardbound in black cloth with gilt lettered spine and magical square decoration to front panel. 9 3/4" x 7 1/4"; xlviii + 268 pages

Condition: Clean, unmarked text pages; firm binding; minimal slant to binding; mild fading of gilt lettering of spine; slight foxing to edges of text block, endpapers and first and last few text pages; no dust jacket. In all a very good copy of this scarce limited edition of this seminal grimoire. 

Translated from the Original Hebrew into the French, and now rendered into English. From a unique and valuable MS in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal at Paris; with special and copious Introduction and Explanatory Notes by the Translator and Numerous Magical Squares of Letters.

Antiquarian / Second hand

'Special edition' published by Troy Books in 2015. Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered examples, bound in dark brown and beautifully grained recycled leather fibres, with gold foil blocking to the front and spine, light brown end papers, with black head and tail bands. 

Condition: Fine, unread copy.

Taking its name from the lost ‘black book’ of a famed Cambridgeshire witch, as well as plots of land sacrificed unto the spirits and the Old One himself, Nigel Pearson’s ‘The Devil’s Plantation’ guides the reader through the traditional witchcraft, old magic and folklore of East Anglia.

This is an ancient landscape, and a melding pot for the beliefs, culture and magic of the various peoples who have inhabited it over its long history. And yet, until very recently, East Anglia has been a land ‘set apart’ and isolated amidst impassable marshes, Fens and uncleared Forests.

Thus East Anglia is a landscape in which ‘the good folk’, land drakes, land wights, meremaids, giants, spectral hounds, saintly miracles, wort Cunning, toad lore, folk magic and indeed witchcraft have been nurtured and continue to play a part in the lives of the people of what has aptly been named ‘Witch Country’.

Antiquarian / Second hand

Out of print hardback edition, published by Three Hands Press in 2016. 
Condition: Some very minor marks on dustwrapper, but otherwise a fine, unread copy. 

The Lady Babalon is one of the more enigmatic figures in the Cult of Thelema. She is a manifold deity in the sense that She is a divine harlot, an initiatrix, a creator and a destroyer. In representative form, the letters of Her name encompass an heptogrammic star; yet She lies beyond mere representation, and Her star signifies only the powers of Her train and not the station of Her immanence. She is the unsignified, a cipher conveying manifestation, and yet the veritable seal of the invisible Order of Illuminated Adepts. In Her subtle and etheric anatomy flows the life-blood of the Saints – the All-Living – and in this is Her deepest mystery, for, as it is written, in the Gospels, and in Aleister Crowley’s Liber 418, ‘The Blood is the Life.”

A ROSE VEILED IN BLACK is the second volume in Three Hands Press’ Western Esotericism in Context Series which began with Hands of Apostasy. The book is a potent gathering of twelve essays and rituals of Babalon by scholars, practitioners, and allies of Thelema, dedicated wholly unto the manifest contemplation of Her Mystery. Exploring occult themes of sacrifice, magical liberation, prophecy, witchcraft, and abomination, it marks a watershed publication for the discourse on this important and previously neglected aspect of Thelemic Studies. The written works are enhanced by an offering of original and visionary art from contemporary practitioners, each exploring Her magical arcana from a ritually embodied perspective.

Contributors include:
Amodali
Gordan Djurdjevic
Richard Kaczynski
Manon Hedenborg-White
Erik Davis
Liv Rainey-Smith
Robert C. Stein
Barry William Hale
Grant Potts
Mitchell Nolte
Linda MacFarlane
Caroline Wise
Robert Fitzgerald
Nicole DiMucci Potts
Timo Ketola
Daniel A. Schulke
Hana Lee
Frater A.I.
Sarah Lindsay