LA CHIROMANCE, LA PHYSIONOMIE, ET LA GEOMANCE, avec la Signification des Nombres et l'Usage de la Roue de Pytagore, par Le Sieur de Peruchio.

(Chiromancy (Palmistry), Physiognomy (Face Reading), and Geomancy (Telling the Future Based on the Throwing of Soil, Sticks, or other natural objects), with the Meaning of Numbers (Numerology) and the Use of the Pythagoras Wheel (Pythagoreanism), by Le Sieur de Peruchio.)

PARIS: Guillaume de Luyne, 1663. Second edition, as stated at the end of the "Privilege du Roi" prelim pages: "Achevé d'imprimer pour la Seconde fois le 27 Octobre 1663" (Printed for the Second time on 27 October 1663). The first edition was published in 1657.

Vellum covers, 6.5x8.5 inches (16.5x22 cm). Pagination: [16] 343 pages. Text in French.

ILLUSTRATED with a title page vignette, 2 folding engraved plates, 20 full-page engravings in text, a few other small engravings, 6 engraved tables in text, woodcut diagrams, and quite intricate engraved head-pieces, tail-pieces and initial letters.

Previously owned by a Fitz-Patrick who was apparently a Lord, Earl, or Baron of Upper Ossory. His bookplate is on the inside front cover, loosely mounted with a One Penny King George V Postage Revenue stamp. I do not know which FitzPatrick this is, but you can find the long genealogy of the Lords and Earls of Fitzpatrick on the Internet.

Condition: The vellum covers have yellowed and are splitting a bit at the spine folds, the rear cover has spotting, water damage and wrinkling; still these full vellum covers are solid and attractive in a Harry Potter Hogwarts Library way. Internally, the front inner hinge has split but is holding on by several cords, the pages have toned with age but are fully and easily legible, the blank front free endpaper has worming, some small paper repairs, and is coming loose from the binding, the title page and the next few pages have a bit of worming, the title page is trimmed for 3/4 inch at the top (perhaps to remove a previous owner's name) and an old water stain, there is some waterstaining / shorelining to the upper gutter area of some of the pages, the latter pages (especially 325-340 and the endpapers) have water staining / shorelining to their upper area (about 1/3 of the page), the rear blank endpaper has some paper repairs and a few lines written in Latin; otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clear, clean, and fully legible. A presentable copy that is complete including all plates and illustrations. I would consider this over 350 year old book to certainly be in GOOD condition for its age.

Occult truth straight from the 17th century to you.

ABHANDLUNG VON DEN FINGERN, deren Verrichtungen und symbolishe Bedeutung, in so serne sie de deutschen Sprache Zusatche geliesect aus aller Art Alterthumer erwogen... by Friedrich [Fabian] GROSCHUFF [sometimes also attributed to Michael Gottlieb Griessbach.] Rare study of the aspects of the hand, finger by finger, with historical, literary, scientific, and occult references to our digits. LEIPZIG & EISENACH (Germany): Michael Gottlieb Griessbach, 1757. GERMAN TEXT. Later Plain Paper Wrappers, 5" x 7.25". Pagination: [14] prelim pages (title page and introductory pages) +312 numbered pages +[24] Register and Errata. Illustrated with Engraved Printer's Device on the title-page and on the last page of Errata, and with a few head and tail pieces. Condition: The pages are toned / lightly browned with age, there is some foxing throughout (heavy on only a few pages), overall the pages are bright and the printing is clear and fully legible. A nicely maintained 257 year old book. About FRIEDRICH GROSCHUFF (from a German Internet site): ****** Groschuff (1700-1784), German philologist. He studied theology and law at Konigsburg and Leipzig and then tutored several noble families. He was the secretary of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Philippstahl, governor of Breda. He afterwards served as a lawyer and counselor. He published a number of works on various subjects, including two on hands and fingers******

WONDERFUL WORDS AND WORKS : SERMONS on the PARABLES and MIRACLES of JESUS. By the REVEREND G. W. ALLEN (GEORGE WILLIAM ALLEN). A book about preaching from one's own spiritual insights rather than from teachings learned in a seminary or from other preachers.

From the Preface: "To hear a great subject treated by a mind that is essentially little is distressing; and especially so if the mind does not know its own littleness...Perfunctoriness is another vice of the made, not born preacher; he utters what he has been taught, not what he really feels. Of such sermons one feels that all that the preacher knows of Theology he knows from hearsay. He has been carefully trained in the views of some particular school...And men who know life, and that it is ever new, new in its interests, its outlook, its lessons, get wearied; and either endure it for the sake of propriety, or stay away from the Church altogether...Sermons should touch life, and human interests, and the human heart, at every point. It should include both theory and practice...To learn life, read...Ruskin, Walt Whitman, Goethe, Carlyle...read such Mystics as Jacob Boehme, St. John of the Cross..."

Published by Skeffington & Son, Publishers to His Majesty the King, London, 1903.

Hardcover Book, blue cloth covered boards, gilt titling and design to the spine, page edges speckled with red, 5x7.5 inches (12x19 cm), xvi + 229 pages.

Copy of GEORGE W. SOUTHWICK, noted collector of theological books, with his signature on the front pastedown..

GOOD condition, The covers bottom corner tips are bumped and there is a bit of pushing at the top of the spine, else the covers are solid and attractive with bright spine gilt. The top page edges have browned. Internally, there is the signature of George W. Southwick on the front pastedown, as noted above, some offsetting and light foxing to the first few pages, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice, very presentable copy.

Quite Rare.

About the author REVEREND GEORGE WILLIAM ALLEN (from various Internet sites):

******Reverend George William Allen was an important figure in the esoteric religious and cultural movements that swept North America and Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. He had significant influence over the movements that determined the cultural and religious avant garde of the Western world from 1880 to 1914, including mystical theosophy. Allen's dream theory, contemporary to Freud's, emphasized the notion that ordinary reality was a false state and that the waking up process was linked to mystical connections and thus the one sure way to self knowledge. Allen's influence lasted well into the twentieth century, even affecting poets such as Yeats and Pound. There has recently been renewed interest in G.W. Allen. A biography on Allen was published in 2019 written by the noted philosophy professor Jeffrey Lavoie titled: George William Allen and Christian Socialism.******

About the previous owner: GEORGE W. SOUTHWICK (from the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center website):

******George W. Southwick, b.1918 d.2006, was a well known figure in Pentecostal churches in Southern California. He held ordination in four different bodies: International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; Assemblies of God; Whosoever Will; and Apostolic Holiness. He was a Bible teacher and noted collector of theological books and periodicals. Southwick developed a significant collection consisting of 4,000 books, as well as numerous periodicals, tracts, pamphlets, photographs, and other archival materials, much of it quite rare. After his death...his collection was donated to the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center "FPHC". Southwick held to Oneness, Anglo-Israel, Calvinist, and Latter Rain beliefs, and much of his collection represented those minor traditions within Pentecostalism. This important collection includes many publications that are not otherwise accessible to researchers.******

CAGLIOSTRO (Joseph BALSAMO) : La Franc-Maçonnerie et l'Occultisme au XVIIIe siècle (Freemasonry and Occultism of the 18th century). D'Apres des Documents Inedits (From Unpublished Documents). By Henri d'ALMERAS.

PARIS : Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, 1904. First Edition. TEXT IN FRENCH.

Hardcovers, leather covered spine and paper covered boards, top page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pagination: [2] blank prelim leaf, [1] first title page with small engraving of Cagliostro, [1] blank verso, [1] half title page, [1] Du Meme Auteur / List of Author's Previous Works, [1] Frontispiece leaf with tissue guard, [1] title page, [1] blank verso, 386 pages.

Condition: The front cover is disbound but present, the rear cover's spine fold is worn and tender but holding, the spine covering is chipped and peeling, the boards are worn at their edges and have some scratches and rubs. Internally, the pages are toned along their edges, there is a previous owner's signature on the first blank page, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A complete copy of this SCARCE 1904 work on the Freemason and Occultist, Cagliostro, by the noted historian Henri d'Almeras.

About CAGLIOSTRO (from Wikipedia):

******Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, b.1743 d.1795, was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo (Joseph Balsamo).

Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death, but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle in 1833, who pronounced him the Quack of Quacks. W.R.H. Trowbridge in his Cagliostro: the Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic (1910), attempted a rehabilitation.

Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco credits to Balsamo the creation of the Egyptian Rite of the Freemasons and intensive work in the diffusion of Freemasonry, by opening lodges all over Europe and by introducing the acceptance of women into the community. Occult historian Lewis Spence comments in his entry on Cagliostro that the swindler put his finagled wealth to good use by starting and funding a chain of maternity hospitals and orphanages around the continent. Occultist Aleister Crowley believed Cagliostro was one of his previous incarnations.******

Scarce First editions of the First two volumes of this pioneering metaphysical Vedantic publication, the first Vedanta periodical published in America.

VEDANTA MONTHLY: The Message Of The East. 1912 & 1913. With contributions from Sister Devamata, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Paramananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda and others.

An unused Manly Palmer Hall Philosophical Research Society Library Post Card is laid in volume one.

Published by The Vedanta Centre, Boston, Massachusetts. Edited by Swami Paramananda. 1912 & 1913 First editions both with 12 monthly issues, January thru December, two full years. 1912 Volume I, Number's 1-12. 1913 Volume II, Number's 1-12. Hardbound in original publisher's brick-red cloth with gilt printing on the spine, 7.5" x 5", paginated separately 196, 196, original paper wrapper from January 1912 bound into volume I, and each with Index. GOOD CONDITION: wear to the edges, corners and covers, internally signs of age and use, volume I with darker page edges, penned former ownership on ffep, some penciled notations/marginalia, and November is bound in out of order (this affected the run of 1912), both volumes complete as issued, overall respectable copies of these elusive first editions. Scarce, no copies held in OCLC collections worldwide.

THE VEDANTA Centre of Boston was founded in 1909 by Swami Vivekananda's youngest disciple, Swami Paramananda (1884-1940), who was a Ramakrishna monk, cutting edge Hindu Mystic, Poet, Guru and Spiritual Innovator. In 1912 he founded the "Message of the East" the first Vedanta periodical published in the United States. He established a monastic community for American women and his first disciple was Sister Devamata (Laura Glenn (1867-1942)). She became his assistant in 1910, and is known for her literary works, her editing of both Swami Vivekananda's and Swami Paramananda's lectures, and as Chief Editor of the Message of the East. In 1915, Swami Paramananda opened a Vedanta Centre in Los Angeles, dividing his time between Boston and L.A.

Vintage early 1970s booklet featuring the identification, abuse and effects of narcotics, marihuana, stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens. Psychedelic drugs, LSD, peyote, psilocybin, PCP, STP, DMT, morphine, heroin, cocaine, speed, amphetamines, barbiturates, basically a drug abuse primer on all the recreational drugs of choice taken by America's Brady Bunch and Partridge Family era youth.

In 1971 Richard Nixon declares War on Drugs. He creates the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973. A nascent product of the DEA. Oh and if your looking for Quaaludes - they weren't illegal until the mid 1980s.

DRUGS OF ABUSE. Published by the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1974 Printing. Illustrated softcovers, 11" x 8.25", side staple bound, 16 pages including covers, richly illustrated with photographs of drugs, drug paraphernalia, and drug abusers, plus a colorful centerfold table with slang terms for drugs, signs of abuse and frightening side effects. Scarce, no copies held in OCLC collections worldwide. VERY GOOD Condition: some scraping and creasing at the spine fold, some shelf wear, and light signs of handling, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An excellent example of 1970s drug ephemera.

THE NEW PEARL OF GREAT PRICE: A Treatise Concerning the Treasure and Most Precious Stone of the Philosophers. Or the Method and Procedure of this Divine Art; With Observations Drawn From the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus. First Published by Janus Lacinus, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index. By [Petrus Bonus of Ferrar]. Translated into English by the noted occultist Alfred Edward Waite.

Published by James Elliott and Co., London, 1894. First English Edition.

Hardcovers, original brown cloth covered boards with red framing and corner designs on the front and rear boards, a red center design on the front board, and gilt titles and red lining to the spine; 7.5x5 inches (12.5x19cm). Pagination: xi, [1], 441, [1] pages + [2] pages of ads at the rear.

First printing in the English language of this alchemical classic, translated from the Aldine Press Latin edition.

GOOD condition. The cover's cloth covering has some small tears and chips to the spine ends, and there is a bit of wear to the corner tips, otherwise the covers are sturdy, bright and doing their job well. Internally, the inner hinge is split at several places where the book was over-opened, but holding well with the sewn binding; otherwise the pages are just lightly used and still bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, nice, presentable copy.

SCARCE, especially in its original cloth covered covers.

About PETRUS BONUS (from Wikipedia):

******Petrus Bonus was a late medieval alchemist. He is best known for his Precious Pearl (Latin: Margarita Preciosa) or Precious New Pearl (Margarita Preciosa Novella), an influential alchemical text composed sometime between 1330 and 1339. He was said to have been a physician at Ferrara in Italy, causing him to sometimes be known as Petrus Bonus of Ferrara or as Petrus Bonus the Lombard (Petrus Bonus Lombardus). An Introduction to the Divine Art (Introductio in Divinam Chemicae Artem) is also attributed to him. In contrast to other alchemical texts of the same period, Petrus Bonus's alchemy describes an art that is in part natural and in part divine or supernatural.******

About ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, the Translator and Preface Author:

******Arthur Edward Waite, b.1857 d.1942. Author, mystic, magician, alchemist, and occultist, Arthur Edward Waite is probably best remembered as the co-creator of the popular Rider-Waite TAROT card deck. He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was active in both Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry.

Waite joined the Runnymede Lodge of Freemasonry on September 19, 1901, becoming exalted to the degree of Holy Royal Arch on May 1, 1902. That same year he joined the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Joining the Masons and the Rosicrucians was a canny move, as many of his new fraternal brothers had been former critics of his books and positions, and despite the internal haggling and splinter groups within Golden Dawn, Waite assumed the mantle of Grand Master in 1903. Waite's first act as Grand Master was to change the group's name to the Order of the Independent and Rectified Rite.

Waite had been attracted to Theosophical philosophy early on but mistrusted the movement's founder, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky.

Waite is best remembered for the publication of the Rider-Waite deck of the Tarot. It was the first deck to have illustrations for all 78 cards, including the Minor Arcana and the Major Arcana, and for using the drawings to suggest the Divination meanings of the cards. Occultists embraced the deck when it appeared in 1910, and it remains a favorite Tarot deck today. Waite also popularized the 10 card Tarot divination spread entitled Celtic Cross.

Waite died on May 19, 1942. He is buried in the churchyard at Bishopsbourne, where his grave is covered in a tangled growth of the deadly nightshade plant.******

FOUNDATIONS OF HYPNOSIS : From MESMER to FREUD, by Maurice M. Tinterow. Published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1970. First Edition, First Printing, with the date 1970 on the copyright page with no indication of additional printings. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 6x9", 606 pages. Condition: VERY GOOD book, the covers are bumped at their bottom corner tips, the inner pages are toned at their margins as is normal for this book, and are lightly creased at their bottom corner; overall the book is tight, bright, clean and unmarked. In a VERY GOOD dustjacket that has a bit of creasing to its spine ends and edges. A solid, very nice copy of this book and dj. The four sections of the book are: The Era of Animal Magnetism 1780-1834; The Era of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism 1843-1851; The Age of Braidism 1843-1860; and Hypnotism in the Late Nineteenth Century. An important work on the early history of hypnosis. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book that will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them. Thanks.

PATH OF LIFE : RABBI JUDAH LOEW BEN BEZALEL 1525-1609. Large, beautifully produced, fully illustrated CATALOGUE for the Exhibition of the same name that took place at the PRAGUE CASTLE, Czech Republic, in 2009. The exhibition was conceived by Alexandr Putik, who also edited this deluxe catalog. English edition, translated from the Czech.

Contains numerous essays on Rabbi Judah Loew Ben Bezalel by Jewish scholars.

Hardcover Book, no dustjacket as issued, 9x11.5 inches (22x29 cm), 520 pages. ILLUSTRATED with hundreds of color and b&w photographs.

Published by Jewish Museum in Prague / Academia, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009.

FINE condition, looks and feels unread, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A lovely copy.

From the Publisher:

******The 7th of September 2009 was the 400th anniversary of the death of Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known both as the Maharal and Rabbi Loew. This exquisite book was published by the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Academia Publishing House for a prestigious exhibition of the same name at Prague Castle. It features a substantial selection of the exhibited items from the museum's collections and from numerous other Czech and foreign cultural institutions. However, it is more than a mere catalogue for the exhibition, as it PROVIDES INSIGHTS into the AUTHENTIC LEGACY of the MAHARAL, WHICH FOR THE MOST PART HAS UNTIL NOW REMAINED CONCEALED.

About Judah Loew ben Bezalel (from Wikipedia):

******Judah Loew ben Bezalel, born ca.1512-1526 d.1609, also called Rabbi Loew (aka Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague or simply The Maharal, was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as the leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.

Within the world of Torah and Talmudic scholarship, Loew is known for his works on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism and his work Gur Aryeh al HaTorah, a supercommentary on Rashi's Torah commentary. He is also the subject of a 19th century legend that he created the Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.

Maharal's numerous philosophical works have become cornerstones of Jewish thought. His writings tried to make the ideas of the Kabbalah (which he held to be the most deeply true of all the Torah) understandable to the average educated reader, by presenting them in a rigorously philosophical form, couched in terms accessible to the public. He felt that only the greatest of Torah scholars are able to perceive the full intent of the Kabbalistic works in their complex entirety, but much could be comprehended by the general reader if presented in a rational and philosophic form. His main kabbalistic influences appear to have been the Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah, and traditions of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

Miharal was in favor of scientific research, but believed the Talmudic, Midrashic, and Aggadic teachings refer to matters far beyond the sphere of natural science.

The Maharal is the subject of the legend about the creation of a golem, a creature made out of clay to defend the Jews of the Prague Ghetto from antisemitic attacks. He is said to have used mystical powers based on esoteric knowledge of how God created Adam.

Rabbi Loew is buried at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague in Josefov, where his grave and tombstone can still be visited.******

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TAROT REVELATIONS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL & RICHARD ROBERTS, with an Introduction by COLIN WILSON.

Warmly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by both RICHARD ROBERTS and JOSEPH CAMPBELL on the inside front cover:

"To Barbara / Who made the 3rd Model of the Universe possible / With love, / Richard".

"And with all good wishes / Joe".

The inscriptions and signatures are bold and bright, in purple ink, and fill the page.

Self-Published by RICHARD ROBERTS in San Anselmo. California. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, 1979. This first edition does not state a Publisher and does not have an ISBN number, only a LOC number. The Second Edition was published by Vernal Equinox Press, San Anselmo, in 1982. The Vernal Equinox Press was a small press owned and operated by Richard Roberts. It published 12 books between 1979 and 1993, ten of which were by Richard Roberts, one by his wife Jane Roberts, and two by Joseph Campbell. The books almost entirely dealt with Divination, Tarot, Occult, Mythology, and the like. The first book published by Roberts (not yet operating under the dba Vernal Equinox Press) was this book in 1979, the second book (dba Vernal Equinox Press) was the second edition of this book in 1982. The front and rear covers of the first and second edition have a similar color scheme and format, but the second edition has additional text on both the front and rear covers and an ISBN number. The book was subsequently printed in a third edition by Vernal Equinox Press in 1987.

Softcovers, 5.5x8.5 inches, ix, 294 pages. Includes the full color fold-open plate of major arcana cards which is bound in at the rear.

GOOD condition, several passages in the first chapter (pages 9-25) are underlined in what appears to be light red crayon, otherwise very good with just a bit of edgewear to the covers and a light crease to the upper corner of the front cover that also slightly affects the same corner of the first 20 pages; otherwise tight, bright, clean, and clear, with an smooth spine. A solid, very presentable copy.

RARE SIGNED and INSCRIBED copy of the FIRST EDITION of this important work on TAROT.

About JOSEPH CAMPBELL (from Wikipedia):

******Joseph John Campbell, b.1904 d.1987, was an American professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

Campbell's theories on mythology and occult have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: "Follow your bliss." George Lucas credited Campbell's work as influencing his Star Wars saga.

Campbell's concept of monomyth (one myth) sees all mythic narratives as variations of a single great story. The theory is based on the observation that a common pattern exists beneath the narrative elements of most great myths, regardless of their origin or time of creation. Campbell believed in the psychic unity of mankind and made use of the concept to express the idea that the whole of the human race can be seen as engaged in the effort of making the world "transparent to transcendence". He believed that underneath the world of phenomena lies an eternal source of things that existed before and beyond words, which is constantly pouring its energies into this world of time, suffering, and ultimately death.******

******RICHARD ROBERTS is an authority on Tarot, Alchemy and Divination. He has written a number of books, including: "The Original Tarot and You", "A Seth Reader", "Dance Unto Death", "Wind and the Wizard", etc.******

Barbara, to whom the book is warmly inscribed, remains a mystery to be uncovered.

THE TAROT OF LEONORA CARRINGTON, by Leonora Carrington, Susan Aberth, Tere Arcq, Gabriel Weisz Carrington.

Published by FULGUR PRESS.

Hardcover Book, 9.5x12 inches, 120 pages, no dustjacket as issued. ILLUSTRATED with 60 color reproductions of Carrington's surrealistic TAROT art.

NEW, unopened in original shrinkwrap. (Photos are from a personal copy.)

PLUS -

MAJOR ARCANA: LEONORA CARRINGTON. Introduced by Rachel Pollack.

Includes: 22 Major Arcana cards; a 16 page booklet with introductory essay by Rachel Pollack.

NEW, unopened in original shrinkwrap. (Photos are from the Internet.)

About LEONORA CARRINGTON and TAROT (from the Publisher):

******The British born artist Leonora Carrington is one of the more fascinating figures to emerge from the Surrealist movement. As both a writer and painter, she was championed early by André Breton and joined the exiled Surrealists in New York, before settling in Mexico in 1943. The magical themes of Carrington's otherworldly paintings are well known, but the recent discovery of a suite of tarot designs she created for the Major Arcana was a revelation for scholars and fans of Carrington alike. This tantalizing discovery, made by the curator Tere Arcq and scholar Susan Aberth, has placed greater emphasis upon the role of the tarot in Carrington's creative life and has led to fresh research in this area.

MAJOR ARCANA is executed on thick board, brightly colored and squarish in format, shining with gold and silver leaf. Carrington draws inspiration from the Tarot of Marseille and the popular Waite-Smith deck, bringing to both her own approach and style, creating a series of iconic images.

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington is the first book dedicated to this important aspect of the artist's work. It includes a full-size facsimile of her newly discovered Major Arcana; an introduction from her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington; and a richly illustrated essay from Tere Arcq and Susan Aberth that offers new insights, exploring the significance of tarot imagery within Carrington's wider work, her many inspirations and mysterious occult sources.******

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WEIRD FICTION REVIEW #1 - #11. Eleven issues, a complete run. Published by Centipede Press, Lakewood, Colorado, 2010-2021.

Condition:

Numbers 6, 8, 9 and 11 are NEW, still in their original shrinkwrap.

Numbers 2, 4, 5, 7 and 10 are LIKE NEW, unread, sharp, tight, basically NEW condition copies.

Number 3 is in NEAR FINE condition, a light bump to the top of the spine, otherwise sharp, tight, bright, clean, with a smooth spine. Looks and feels unread.

Number 1 in in VERY GOOD condition, there is a horizontal crease to the middle of the rear cover, a bit of creasing to the top edge of the front cover, wear to the very ends of the corner, and some shelf rubs; overall a very nice copy that feels unread, with a smooth spine and very tight text block.

Rare complete set of Weird Fiction Review in fantastic condition. What a WEIRD gift this would be!

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