[Richard Allestree]. The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as Well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy for the Practice of the Present Age… Printed by W. Bent, [1835]. Early reprint edition.  Twelvemo. viii, 492pp. + Index. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full green leather, spine and boards lettered.....

Sacra Biblia, Acri Studio, Ac Diligentia Emendata, Rerum, atque Verborum permultis, & perquàmdignis Indicibus aucta. Superiorum Concessu, ac Privilegiis. [Venice: Apud Iolitos, 1588].   Octavo. Two parts in one small quarto volume. [16], 679; 199, [1, blank], [200, indices] pp. General and New Testament titles within ornate woodcut borders. Illustrated with.....

J. Mason Brewer. Ralph White, Jr., illustrator. The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. First edition.  Inscribed by J. Mason Brewer: "To Daniel Johnson, with con- / gratulations on being able to / obtain the 1st edition of this /.....

Rev. William Cook. The Ploughboy: A Poem, Part First. Salem: [privately printed by the author], 1854. Early reprint edition. Twelvemo. 32pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by the author. Original illustrated paper wraps, stringbound.Early example of one of Cook's charmingly crude pamphlets that he composed, illustrated, printed, and distributed himself.

Aleister Crowley. Richard Kaczynski, editor. Sword of Song: Called by Christians The Book of the Beast. [London]: Kamuret, [2021]. First edition, one of 350 unnumbered copies. Octavo. liv, 407 pages. Edited, annotated and introduced by Aleister Crowley’s foremost biographer, Richard Kaczynski. Printed in red and black throughout. Bound in publisher’s.....

[Charles Francois] Dupuis. Abrégé De L’Origine de Tous Les Cultes (Abridgment of the Origin of All Cults). Paris: Chez H. Agasse, [1798]. First edition.  First abridged edition of Dupuis’ larger work exploring the origins of the world’s religions through the lens of astronomy and mythology, concluding that all religions originate.....

Bartholomæo Gavantus. Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum Seu Commentaria in Rubricas Missalis et Breviarii Romani, Parts 1 & 2. Antwerp: Ex Officina Plantiniana, Balthasaris Moreti, 1646.Quarto. [359]pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Bound in contemporary, vellum, ink titles to spine, yapp edges, manuscript binding waste visible to interior boards. Text in Latin.

Samuel Hibbert. Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; or, an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1825. Second edition, enlarged. "Hibbert concluded that whatever their exciting cause, apparitions, that is illusions and hallucinations, resulted from the recall of forgotten memories which being emotionally charged attained a vividness.....

Hughes, Thomas. David Livingstone. London: Macmillan, 1900. Full polished red calf prize binding from the Tottenham High School for Girls, with school crest stamped in gilt on the front board and printed and manuscript prize label mounted on the front pastedown endpaper; marbled endpapers and edges, fold-out map.

James Weldon Johnson. Aaron Douglas, illustrator. Lettering by C. B. Falls. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Twenty-third printing. Octavo. 56pp. Illustrated with drawings by Aaron Douglas and lettering by C. B. Falls. Publisher's gray cloth, spine and front cover lettered in brown, red top stain, original.....

Francis King. The Magical World of Aleister Crowley. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1978. First American edition. Octavo. 210pp (indexed). Illustrated. Publusher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decorated in blind, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.

Mason Long. The Life of Mason Long, the Converted Gambler. Being a Record of His Experiences as a White Slave; A Soldier in the Union Army; A Professional Gambler; A Patron of the Turf; A Variety Theater and Minstrel Manager; And, Finally, A Convert to the Murphy Cause, and to.....

[Miniature Book]. Massman, Robert E., REM Miniatures. Not in Adomeit. [New Britain, Conn.]: REM Miniatures, [1980]. First edition thus, Limited to 150 copies printed at Art Press. Signed by Robert E. Massmann. Additionally inscribed to Edward Hoyenski on the front pastedown: "For Edward, / fondly  / Bob." Typography by Richard.....