Sword Wisdom by Colquhoun Ithell (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has chipping to top and bottom of spine and folds of front and rear flaps. Holes to folds of flaps. Water damage to spine and rear of dust jacket. Staining and missing print to rear of dust jacket. See Photos. Book in purple cloth with bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Toned with foxing to edges. Book sellers stamp on ffe. A good solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Hardcover First American edition with non-price clipped dust jacket. Jacket has tears, sections missing from the heal and crown of the spine, as well as damp stains to the back panel. It is now in an archival protective cover. The book has some stains to the boards and the previous owner's name is on the inside cover. There is also an attached book plate which has not been filled in. In spite of these issues, the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is sound. This title is uncommon, but is modestly priced. Professional packaging in a box and prompt shipping (RBR).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good first American edition. Some wear to spine ends, edges. Age-toning to pages throughout, as is common. Good dust jacket. Not price-clipped. Wear, chipping to spine ends, edges, folds. Closed tear to middle of spine. Fading to covers, spine. Age-toning to flaps. An uncommon first American edition.

Condition: Good. Pictures Throughout (illustrator). From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

307 S. Hardcover SU ( Dustjacket ) good condition. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition copy of this occultist book about 'The Golden Dawn' secret society. The scarce first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Juanita Grout. With a colour frontispiece, and twenty plates. Collated complete. An interesting work regarding the 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn', a secret society devoted to the study of occult Hermeticism and metaphysics. Detailing the life and teachings of the founder, MacGregor Mathers. This unusual book about the Golden Dawn gives special attention to its Celtic affiliations, while a useful feature is the tabulated account of its temples and their membership. Ithell Colquhoun was a British painter, occultist and writer. Her work played an important role in the British surrealist movement. The half title page is present. With a bookseller's label to the front free endpaper. In the original, full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with little shelf wear. The odd small mark to the front board. Bookseller's label to the front free endpaper. The original unclipped dust wrapper is in excellent condition with light shelf wear only. The odd small mark to the panels. Some fading to the rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Fine. book.

First US edition, first printing, of the first definitive history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its founder Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Colquhoun was a celebrated artist and occultist who was expelled from the English Surrealist Group for refusing to abandon her occult research. A voracious scholar, the Golden Dawn was a long-standing focus of her research. Colquhoun (1906-1988) is now "recognized as one of the most interesting and prolific esoteric thinkers and artists of the twentieth century" (Hale). Her artistry and occultism were intertwined throughout her life: while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, she joined the Quest Society, which fostered an freethought approach to the study of religion, philosophy, and science. As she evolved as an artist, her fascination with the unconscious saw her draw on a dizzying array of esoteric traditions. "Colquhoun was at once an artist and a magician, a mystical Christian, a scholar, and practitioner of the occult with a deep knowledge of both Eastern and Western religions. She immersed herself in Druidry, goddess worship, freemasonry, tarot, Theosophy, and the Kabbalah, and argued that all matter must bear a trace of the creator and so must be considered living" (Higgie, p 175). Provenance: Steve Nichols, editor of The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun (2007), unmarked as such. Amy Hale, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully, 2020; Jennifer Higgie, The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, 2023. Octavo. Frontispiece and 8 plates, multiple illustrations in the text. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to spine ends and foxing to edges; jacket unclipped, a hint creased: a near-fine copy in like jacket.