Search Results: Titles starting with T from Richard Bishop, Bookseller

Delhi: D.P.B. Publications, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Small, thick quarto (7.5 x 9.5 inches). Limited to 200 copies. 868pp. Pictorial boards (issued without dust jacket). Text in English and Sanskrit, with transliterations. Some b&w illustrations. Typical Indian production values. Some edge and corner wear to boards, a couple of dings to book edges at top and bottom. A very good copy. This is a most remarkable work, being a textbook of worship for the Dasamahavidya (the ten tantric transofrmations of the Great Goddess). The Mahavidyas are: Kali, Tara, Sodasi, Bhuvanesvari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Matangi, Bagala, and Kamala. This massive work includes ritual procedures for all ten goddesses, with mantras, yantras, modes of worship, and much more. Some of the sections are in Sanskrit only with transliterations - these are mostly in the form of lengthy mantras and hymns but for these parts there are some commentaries in English. The transliterations do allow for interpreting the… Read More

Kolkata: Punthi Pustak, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii + 223pp. Bound in black cloth with white titles to front and spine. Usual Indian production values. Title misspelled on front cover (Trantric), corners bumped, small bump to lower edge of front board. Still a very good copy in like dust jacket. Includes a history of tantra in relation to Assam, plus a deliberation on the details of the Yogini Tantra (which has still never been published in English), a detailed analysis of the Kamakhya Tantra, comments concerning the Kalikapurana, and more.

Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover in pictorial boards. Large quarto. xv + 220 pages, with additional pages of b&w plates at end of volume. Some corner bumps and a small ding to top of rear boards. A very good copy. An excellent study of the Tantric cult in Tamil Nadu. Chapter headings are: Tantrism in Tamil Classical Literature; Tantrism in Tamil Devotional Literature; Tantrism in Tamil Sastric Works; Tantrism in Sanskrit Works - Sastric; Silpa texts; Tantrism in Monumental Art; Sakti Worship as Gleaned from Epigraphs. Includes a select bibliography, index, and plates.

London: The Magic Circular, November, 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Quarto. Pages of this complete circular are numbered 21-36. This is the November 1969 issue of The Magazine of The Magic Circle. Illustrated in b&w. Very light corner wear. A near fine copy. NOTE: also included with this listing are the other 10 issues of The Magic Circular from 1969 (July and August are combined in one issue). A rare and important piece of Spare ephemera. This the first mention anywhere in print of the long lost Tarot deck created by Austin Osman Spare in 1905 or 1906. With the possible exception of some of Spare’s friends and associates, nobody knew the deck existed. In 1944 Spare entrusted the deck to the conjuror Herbert J. Collings, one of the founding members of The Magic Circle, a British organization dedicated to the history and promotion of conjuring and stage magic. In November of 1969, then curator of The Magic Circle Museum, Arthur Ivey (1891- 1975), published a short article within the… Read More

Wee Hours, 1967. First Edition. Wee Hours 543 (Holroyd page 534). Cover by Bill Alexander. Fine. Scarce.

Chevron Books, 1967. First Edition. PBO. CB 115 (not in Holroyd). Near fine. They used all their charms as bait in their continuing war against men. Their only object was complete surrender.

Colon, MI: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company, No date (ca. 1946). Presumed first edition. Stapled card covers. 12 mo (5 x 7 inches). 31 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Near fine. Uncommon. Fascinating work concerning fire eating, sword swallowing, miracles with spikes (including driving a spike into your head), eating glass, walking through fire and more. What could possibly go wrong?

Self published, 1989. No edition stated. Stapled wrappers. 10 pp. Illustrations. This booklet may have come with an electronic device which is referred to in the text (a beeper). If so, it is not present here. Very good. An updated version of the Talking Skull, The Spirit Bell, and Laser Beam, all rolled into one. The tricks and gags presented here involve a "beeper" which makes sounds during tricks, some used with a watch.

Haverhill, MA: Chas. C. Eastman, 1936. No edition stated. Stapled wrappers. Octavo. 39 pp., plus ads. Swastika design to front cover. Old sticker residue to upper right front cover, ghost sticker to free endpaper. Very good. Card tricks and more.

North Hollywood: Nite Time Books, 1964. First Edition. PBO. No. 111 (not in Holroyd). Cover artist's initials: E.M. A fine copy. Very rare. He was a man - but he liked to dress in women's clothing! He tried to resist but it was no use. There was something about the feel of a woman's clothing against his male body that drove him out of his mind with the unbearable ecstasy. And there was that one night when he knew he'd have to go all the way...

Detroit: Johnson, Smith & Co., No date (ca. 1910). No edition stated. Original pictorial wrappers. Small octavo (5.25 x 7 inches). 100 pp., plus many pages of ads. With 89 b&w illustrations. Corner crease and faint vertical crease to front cover, staining to front cover which shows on inner cover and lighty on first few pages. Otherwise a solid, very good copy of this scarce volume. Includes "The Miser's Dream" and many other tricks.

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1902. First Edition. Original pictorial wrappers. 12mo (4.25 x 6.5 inches). 164 pp., plus 26 pages of publisher's ads. with 86 illustrations in b&w. Book has been bumped or dropped resulting in a bend that affects the entire volume. Still completely readable. Outer cover is starting to separate from text pages. A good to very good copy of this scarce volume. Includes a complete explanation of Downs' world-famous coin creation, "The Miser's Dream," as presented by him at the Palace Theatre. London, for nearly 200 consecutive performances.

New York: Paragon Book House, 1965. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Royal octavo. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1937. This is the first single volume edition (complete and unabridged). xxiv + 314pp. Navy cloth with orange titles stamped to front and spine. In original dust jacket. With 360 b&w images. Some light edge wear to dust jacket. A tiny bit of dust to bottom page edges, othwerwise a fine copy in a near fine jacket. Two of the most important sourceworks of Lamaistic esotericism. Each pantheon, or collection of Icons, is presented in photo-reproduction from the priceless originals, with descriptive indexes in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. An amazing collection of Buddhist imagery.