johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 152 p. Foreword by Michel Bustros. First American edition. Small octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Two bookseller ink stamps to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some general minor shelfwear; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 63634

Wraps. Condition: Good. New Edition, this is No. 97 of 150 copies. "Contains a complete exposition of Hindu phallicism" (Goodland p. 563). From the library of esoteric philosopher Charles Muses, with his signature and stamp to the front endpaper. Octavo: 59 p. Original printed gray paper wrappers over binder board. Largely unopened, with a few opened hastily. The wrappers are slightly frayed, with some splitting along the lower edge of the front joint. Uncommon.

Seller Inventory # 70061

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. An idiosyncratic survey of the pre-Christian religious practices of Scandinavia. The notoriously outspoken Varg Vikernes (b.1973) rose to prominence in the Norwegian black metal scene as Count Grishnackh with his one-man music project Burzum and as the bassist for Mayhem. Implicated in the burning of four Christian churches in Norway, he fatally stabbed Mayhem guitarist Euronymous and was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum penalty under Norwegian law. Released in 2009, Vikernes moved to France where he has continued to write and make music, while also espousing far-right views and advocating for a pre-industrial European pagan society. 127 p. with textual illustrations. Octavo. Original white cloth binding, with decorative silver stamping. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 72283

A binder of materials produced by the Awareness Research Foundation, an alternative religious group founded in 1962 at a Thanksgiving dinner in Bellevue, Washington. A psychologist placed under hypnosis cured his own cancer and through subsequent hypnotic trances revealed his expanding knowledge was a result of "cosmic awareness". The binder contains more than 150 pages of material organized within sections with a table of contents. The material includes an introduction to Awareness: "awareness in each individual which draws upon that portion of himself which is his inner superconscious power." Among the other material in the binder are a membership application, an introduction to spiritual healing, excerpts from readings in Olympia, Washington and Calgary, Alberta, Canada, etc. The executive director of the Foundation was Helen I. Hoag, who claimed to have been aboard a spaceship and lived multiple past lives. "I'm Mara Menara, professionally," Hoag wrote in the opening of her book My Lives on Atlantis, a copy of which is laid into the binder. "My name in this life is Helen I. Hoag. Would you like to know some of my other names?" Along with Hoag's book, a 1971 letter is laid into the binder recounting Hoag's summer tour, which took her to Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. "One of our contacts had already been taken to 'the other side'. We met some wonderful people, evaluated several organizations, ran several dozen lives for a number of persons in a great many cities and towns. We also saw, from a distance, some eight or nine space ships and were able to distinguish them from stars by their movement and lights. One of these was the Star Ship of our new Universe Lord which seems to stay over the vicinity of Minturn, Colorado near Vail." It appears the organization moved from Washington to North Miami and during the summer months, was based in Topeka, Kansas. The materials are housed in a green stiff paper binder with metal clasps.

Seller Inventory # 75248