Occult from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[New York]: Gotham Book Mart, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edward Gorey. Booklet and cards in original two-piece box. Booklet: 4 3/4 inches, [32] pp., including portrait frontispiece; stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Cards: 4 3/4 inches, [20] loose laminated cards with individual pictorial rectos and uniform patterned versos. Box: 5 inches, pictorial lid, paper over card. Numbered and… Read more about this item

[ca. 1994]. Image 8 x 10 inches, sheet 10 1/4 x 12 inches. Pen and ink on paper. Signed with "EG" monogram. Traces of pencil guide lines in margins, artist's corrections in white tempera. Pencil measurement inscription in lower margin. Light stains in margins (largest 3/8 x 1/4 inches), most visible in lower margin; tiny stains (not exceeding 1/12 inch)… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Maç, V. Gloton, 1930. 18.5 cm. 430,[2] pp. In French. Publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn at edges and lightly scuffed, leaves toned. Very good. Anti-Fascist work by the Italian journalist and anarcho-syndicalist Maria Rygier (1885-1953), examining the history of Freemasonry in Italy and the rise of Fascism in the context of anti-Masonic persecution. In 1914, committed to… Read more about this item

Paris: Le centre de documentation anti-maçonnique et anti-marxiste, 1935. 7,[2],8-91 pp., including double-page chart, plus [2] pp. of publisher's advertisements. In French. Original printed wrappers. Newspaper clipping from August 29, 1940, on "Les responsabilités de la Maçonnerie" laid in.Wrappers moderately worn, front wrapper creased at upper-outer corner, contents toned, occasional contemporary pencil marks. Very good. A far-right, anti-Masonic, anti-Semitic screed… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of… Read more about this item

Barcelona: Tipográfia de Espasa Hermamos [sic] y Salvat, 1879. Hardcover. Fair. 931 pp. Half title. In Spanish. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, gilt red leather label, marbled endpapers. Binding scuffed, extremities worn. Significant dampstain in lower-outer front board and text block (mostly in margins), causing light loss to corner of binding and front endpapers and chipping to first… Read more about this item