Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (116 results)

First Edition. First edition. 249 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with blue spine lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, a little edge-worn, price-clipped. The first book by the author of The Mothman Prophecies, an entertaining travelogue of magic in Tibet, India, and Egypt.

Seller Inventory # 140941796

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition. xiii, [1], 125 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with former owner's name on front free endpaper, a little foxing to edges, edge-rubbing to cloth, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, a little rubbed and shelfworn. A book about Scotland's answer to Bigfoot (decidedly more spectral in demeanor than its American counterpart), Am Fear Liath M�r or Greyman, said to haunt its second highest peak, Ben Macdui. An engaging exploration of the paranormal more than a work of cryptozoology, per say.

Seller Inventory # 140939896

First Edition. Vol. 3, No. 1; April 1, 1958. Saucerian Publication #16. 6 pp. Stapled 8.5" x 11" sheets. Near Fine with very light wear. This issue of Gray Barker's UFO periodical covers the occult book The Third Eye by T. Lobsang Rampa and Barker's "feud" with Saucer Smear editor Jim Moseley, among other items.

Seller Inventory # 140938898

First edition. First edition, first printing. [ii], 412 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with white spine lettering. Fine, pages toned with age, in a very bright, unclipped ($6.95), and unfaded dust jacket with a few laminate scratches that are only visible in raking light, else Fine. A lovely copy of a true crime book about a very ugly crime, the murder of Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles on the night of August 8th 1969. Sanders, a musician and poet, raised a lot of questions about Manson, some of which related to an obscure occult group called The Process Church.

Seller Inventory # 140945314

Paperback. First edition. First edition. 172, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with minor shelf wear, faint hint of a vertical crease to the front wrap. The 1970s were a golden age of fringe books inspired by Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods, the flying saucer subculture, and Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. This book is perhaps the high watermark of that era. In it the author argues that the moon is a gigantic hollow space vehicle parked like a derelict truck in earth's orbital field by aliens. (Perhaps that behavior explains why they feel so at home visiting earth's rural areas?) Features on the moon are analyzed in a style prefiguring that of Richard Hoagland, well-known for his Mars face discovery. This book proved a big enough hit to inspire a sequel, Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon, which is mainly remembered today as that other book about the moon being a spaceship.

Seller Inventory # 140945754

First edition. First edition, first printing. 193, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, bookseller's label on paste down, in a lightly worn dust jacket, Near Fine. An uncommon work by the Afghan Sufist writer (1924-1996), who also wrote under the pen name Arkon Daraul. The titular "perfuming of a scorpion" is a reference to a symbol used by Bahaudin Naqshband of Bukhara when he taught about the ubiquitous problem of hypocrisy and self-deception in both individuals and institutions: "Whoever might perfume a scorpion will not thereby escape its sting.".

Seller Inventory # 140946266

Original pressing. AI-1001. Double LP. Stereo. Albums Very Good, a fair amount of light surface wear, in an Excellent sleeve, rubbed along edges, hinges holding up; sleeve much better than usually encountered. Does not include pamphlet. A very rare private-press psychedelic free improv record from a New York-based hippie collective, the Arica Institute, a school of spiritual development formed and led by Chilean mystic Oscar Ichazo. A reviewer for Julian Cope's Head Heritage calls the album: "timeless sounds that could have been conjured from and played by the very spirits of the Earth. Prior to making his masterpiece of film The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky met Ichazo and became intrigued enough by his techniques - essentially a potent blending of esoteric knowledge and methods from around the world - to not only go through the initial intensive course of Arica mind expansion and training but to require the same of all cast and crew for the film. This undoubtedly affected the whole film, and it seems strange that Arica's music was not used for the soundtrack, particularly in the second half, because they go together in vibe very well." .

Seller Inventory # 140945563

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. April 23, 1946. Vol. 6, No. 17. Illustrated with photos and many cartoons. Stapled sheets. 24 p. Good- to Fair condition. Binding intact. Sheets are brittle, toned, creased, curled and chipped around edges; paper needs to be handled quite carefully. Gnawing to outer corner margin. A typically fragile, worn copy of a cheaply-produced early street newspaper sold by the homeless. Rare. A 16-year-old John Keel contributed the short piece "Say It With A Song" to this issue. It was most likely the young magician and freelancer's second or third experience in print. Eventually he would write such Fortean classics as The Mothman Prophecies, Disneyland of the Gods, and Jadoo.

Seller Inventory # 150226001

[v], 1-11, 12a, 12-59, 7 pp. Bound in publisher's side-stapled yellow wraps. Reprint, publisher's ads at rear dated January 1980. Contains some underlining and checkmarks in margins in pencil, else Very Good. A long essay by one of the better-known 20th century proponents of hollow earth theory and UFOs.

Seller Inventory # 140944401

First American edition. First American edition. x, 262 pp. Bound in publisher's navy ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with spots of heavy foxing to fore and top edges that's intruding into margins of text, in a jacket with similar foxing to front panel, light wear, tiny scrape to back panel. Rare in jacket. A collection of essays on the human mind's potential, dreams, psychic powers, and more by the French philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature.

Seller Inventory # 140944611

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author on front free endpaper beneath former owner's name. 288pp. Brown cloth with silver and black lettering. First American edition, early printing or issue but not first. (No date on title page despite statement of "First printing" on copyright page. Deboss spot on back cover, book club edition?) Very Good, no jacket. A few easily-erasable pencil brackets in margins, light edge wear, light stain on front board near top. The author's first book, a runaway besteller-- uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 170728006

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 560, [4] pp. Original black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine with small stain dot to top edge, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with tiny tear near head, some light rubbing and edge wear. Erratum slip laid in. A collection of ouija-board channeled narrative poetry.

Seller Inventory # 140939672

Condition: Fine. First British Edition. First edition in English. [viii], 179 pp. Yellow cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 4 of 356 copies. A Fine copy. A 1915 novel exploring the concept of reincarnation as an "eternal return," following the unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to correct his mistakes when given a chance to relive his past. Ouspensky's only novel. He is best remembered today for his association with G.I. Gurdjieff, the Greek-Armenian mystic and spiritual teacher.

Seller Inventory # 140940129

First Edition. First edition. 94 pp. Stiff wrappers. A Near Fine copy with slightly bumped corners, wraps a little rubbed. Art and sculpture by the Polish-born artist.

Seller Inventory # 140941828

First Edition. First edition. 318 pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled crimson leatherette, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing, dulling spine lettering. A rare UFO/occult book from the American author and far-right political figure's later years.

Seller Inventory # 140942023

First edition. First edition. Signed by June Johns on the half title. 128 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Good only with two diagonal creases through book, light edge wear, pages toned with age. A British guide to the history of the occult and its practitioners circa 1971, around the time of Black Sabbath's classic song "Paranoid" and their second album. Aside from some true crime accounts, Johns didn't go into many specifics of the contemporary scene (frustrating readers and reviewers), but the book became one of her best-known works and would be referenced in the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s. Very uncommon signed.

Seller Inventory # 140944550

Signed by Adam Parfrey, contributor and editor, on the title page in red ink. xii, 458 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition. Near Fine with bumping to top corner, some sticker schmutz on rear cover. Uncommon signed.The follow-up to Parfrey's original anthology Apocalpyse Culture, first published in 1987 by his initial publishing concern, Amok Press, and then heavily revised when reprinted by his imprint Feral House. The book had a huge cultural impact, acting as a gateway drug for many readers, introducing them to wild fringe ideas and obscure figures that, pre-internet, they probably never would have encountered otherwise. This sequel is in many ways a stiffer drink, attempting to encompass some of the profoundly disturbing weirdness the internet had begun to unleash on culture. It ends, fittingly enough, with a satirical short story by the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, about the foolhardiness of embracing identity politics in the face of technological apocalypse and human extinction.

Seller Inventory # 140944948

Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red blind ruled burgundy cloth. Ex-library with typical markings. Good with lean to binding, moderate wear at extremities and light soiling to cloth. Tender binding with pencil markings to contents. A critical biography of the Russian mystic and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. The Buddhist author, Lillie, believed Blavatsky was a plagiarist and questioned the claims of the Theosophical Society.

Seller Inventory # 140946334

First edition. First edition, first printing. 176 pp. Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket with small closed tear to front panel that is repaired with tape on verso, price-clipped, light wear. A sequel to the British author's influential book The View Over Atlantis, a complex work rooted in mathematics exploring sacred geometry, numerology, gematria, and the esoteric concept of the New Jerusalem.

Seller Inventory # 140946337

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. 390 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine. In the rare dust jacket, chipped at the head with a circular tear in the spine, a few other small tears. A spiritualist work on the afterlife, mediumship, and psychic/paranormal phenomena by a Swedish-born born psychiatrist with impressive credentials who turned away from conventional medicine and science in the early 20th century, believing that "obsessing spirits" were behind mental disturbances. This book was often referenced in occult circles for its examples of "possession" by evil forces.

Seller Inventory # 140941208

First edition. First edition. Signed by Adam Parfrey on the title page, inscribed "The New One For the New World ODOR Your eternal schmatta Adam P." 371, [3] pp. with frontispiece by Joe Coleman, later used for the cover of Apocalpyse Culture II. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with a little curling to front wrap, very light soiling to fore edge. Some bleed through to copyright page from inscription. A collection of essays by the late editor of Apocalypse Culture and renegade publisher on various late 20th century cults and fringe figures: channeler Ruth Norman and Unarius, far right impressario Bo Gritz, 2nd wave feminist Andrea Dworkin, short-lived would-be American militia leader Linda Thompson, legendary (quasi-fictional?) conspiracy maven James Shelby Downard, shock punk G.G. Allin, and more. Also features an essay on the Oklahoma City bombing accurately predicting how legislation passed in its wake prepared the way for restrictions on rights and state surveillance post-9/11.

Seller Inventory # 140944966

Earliest reprint, with registration blank numbered 00362. [5]-88 pp. Bound in publisher's navy wraps with gilt lettering. Near Fine, an attractive copy. Pages slightly toned with age. The spiritual leader's first published work.

Seller Inventory # 140944994

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition,second state original blue cloth with red stamping, no gilt. 328pp. A Fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Faint crease to front flyleaf, hint of dust soil to top edge. An excellent copy of the only published novel by the famous investigator and compiler of anomolous events. In a mixed contemporary review the New York Times called this novel "a vivid picture of a sordid and unpleasant phase of life" that is "permeated with a certain grim humor.".

Seller Inventory # 170220002

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. [xii], 196 pp. Dark grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hint of foxing to edges, light shelf wear. Jacket has some rubbing, some small tears and small creases at extremities, price intact ($5.95). The author's first account of his encounters with Yaqui shaman Don Juan Matus, published while he was still a grad student by an academic press.

Seller Inventory # 151125012

First Edition. First edition. Signed by Ken Wilber, warmly inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 17, 1982. xii, 372 pp. Bound in publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good, top edge foxed, a few pencil notes in margins, former owner's emboss to a few pages, in a Very Good dust jacket, a little edge worn and toned with age. An early work by the New Age philosopher.

Seller Inventory # 140942917

First edition. First American edition, first printing. xii, 349 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light wear, in a Very Good dust jacket, worn and a little chipped at extremities, unclipped ($7.95). Uncommon. A cult classic by the archaeologist who popularized the Dead Sea Scrolls, maintaining through a complex argument rooted in linguistics that the historical Jesus never existed but was the invention of a psilocybin-mushroom-ingesting fertility cult. Originally published in the author's home country, the UK; this the first US edition features a more colorful dust jacket with a photo of Amanita muscaria. The book has been known to pop up in Joe Rogan's popular podcast as one of his perennial talking points.

Seller Inventory # 140945826

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. 60 + 4 pp ads. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards (Wade 25). Very Good. Small damp stain at head. Covers darkened with age and lightly marked and soiled; small nick to edge of boards. Crease to bottom corner of title page. Pages lightly toned and dust soiled; slightly exposed hinge toward center of text block though binding remains solid. Printed on slightly thicker paper than the wraps issue, and also far more uncommon.

Seller Inventory # 161106001

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition of the complete text. 239 pp. Text in French and an unknown language. Beautiful full-color illustrations of strange plants, women, and more. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Light bumping to corners, very faint rubbing to jacket. The first publication of the famous illustrated anonymous manuscript in an unknown language.

Seller Inventory # 150215033111

First Edition. First edition. Signed by Kathryn Hulme on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. [x], 306 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, front stamped in blind, spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dust jacket with wear at tips, a little stained, spine a little toned. A journey into the spirituality of the mystic Gurdjieff by the author of The Nun's Story.

Seller Inventory # 140941808

First edition. First edition. xxvi, [2], 165 pp. Bound in 20th century crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. An ex-library copy, noncirculating, with call number on spine, stamp on top edge, bookplate, institutional perforation to title page and page 63. Call number written on verso of title page in pencil, penciled notes throughout. Rare.From a later publisher's preface: "The authors, 'Two Chelas in the Theosophical Society,' were Mrs. Laura Holloway (later Holloway-Langford), an American widow, the 'Western Chela'; and Mohini M. Chatterji, a Hindu lawyer, the 'Eastern Chela'. Their collaboration took place in London in 1884. Both these authors at one time had the privilege of being under the guidance of the teachers of H.P. Blavatsky," to whom the book is dedicated.

Seller Inventory # 140944075