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Few cultures match Egypt when it comes to the reality of the Occult. Egypt managed to unify what most cultures can only understand and deal with in separate compartments, such as Magic, Architecture, Politics, even Human interaction. The ancient denizen of the valley of the Nile regarded her/himself precociously in an elaborate and philosophical mode, as a composite being, consisting of six, seven, (or even) eight parts. The influence of these ideas and concepts would reach far and deep into the future.
“Egypt became an image, then a place in which the mind could play”
- Don Webb
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ONE: ‘Khat’ – A Body
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A Report From The Bunker: With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris (Vermilion First Edition, softback, 1982) issued to coincide with The Final Academy, with distinctive cover Art & Design by Neville Brody £23
Time.Place.Word Exhibit Catalogue from John Hay Library (Brown University Library, 2000) Edited by Eric C Shoaf with Essays by Jenni Skerl, Robert H Jackson, Robin Lyndenberg, & John Tytell. Profusely illustrated £50
The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960 (Blast Books/Dolphin-Moon Press First Edition, softback, 1991) Edited by John Strausbaugh and Donald Blaise, Foreword (and Cover Art!) by William S Burroughs. Includes Artaud, Baudelaire, Cocteau, Daumal, Gautier, Huxley, Mezzrow, Michaux, de Nerval, Nin, and many more… £15
Painting & Guns (Hanuman Books, Madras & New York, 1992) Brings together Raymond Foye & Francesco Clemente‘s Interview with WSB, ‘The Creative Observer’, and his extended Essay ‘The War Universe’ £30
Everything Is Permitted: The Making of ‘Naked Lunch’ (A Grafton Original, 1992) Edited by Ira Silverberg. Brought out to accompany the David Cronenberg film adaptation, with Introductions by both Author and Director. Detailed articles on Production History and Special Effects, Burroughs Profile by Gary Indiana, profusely illustrated in b&w and full-colour. £23
Apocalypse (George Mulder Fine Arts, October 1988) Keith Haring & William S Burroughs. 10 full-colour, full-page Artworks by KH to accompany the Text by WSB + 3 of the Artist at Work in his Studio £50
Naked Lunch (Flamingo Modern Classic, paperback, 1993) Introduction by J G Ballard £5
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‘He told me about the hallucination of space-time, and the joining of past and future so that either could be the present, and all ages accessible…’
- Anna Kavan ’Ice’
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‘Now I am going back through strange curves and angles. Angles and curves multiply about me. I perceive great segments of time through curves. There is curved time, and angular time…’
- Frank Belknap Long ’The Hounds of Tindalos’
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The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuberg by Jean Overton Fuller (Revised Edition from Mandrake of Oxford, paperback, 1990) £15
Austin Osman Spare: An Introduction (Beyond the Rising Sun Publications, 1993) Edited by Andrew Gardner £30
The Sacred Magician: A Ceremonial Diary by William Bloom writing as ‘Georges Chevalier’ (Paladin, paperback, 1976) Account of the six month Abramelin Working; Editorial Introduction by Peter Somner £15
The Truth About The Tarot by Gerald Suster (Skoob Books, paperback, 1990) £20
Austin Spare: An Introduction to his Life & Writings by Sunny Shah (Holmes Publishing Group, 1998) £15
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter (Feral House, hardback, 1999) Introduction by Robert Anton Wilson £25
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Dora Maar, Lee Miller and Méret Oppenheim, to name but three, each produced an image or images that have endured as iconic representations of the Surrealist movement. Here are a few examples:
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Dora Maar (22nd November 1907 – 16th July 1997)
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Lee Miller (23rd April 1907 – 21st July 1977)
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Méret Oppenheim (6th October 1913 — 15th November 1985)
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Surrealism as a whole continues to fascinate and inspire. After all, in its juxtaposition of the world of the Everyday and the world of Dream and the Imagination and the tensions between them, which the artist makes into art, it is the very stuff of Life itself…
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Kay Sage (25th June 1898 – 8th January 1963)
A Surrealist with a difference. The settings of her paintings (which show the influence of Giorgio de Chirico) are worlds irrevocably altered and stripped by human engineering and interference, leaving landscapes that are virtually emptied of colour, their desolation bathed in a strange cold inhuman light.
One painting shows a woman who sits waiting on the edge of jagged de-naturalized rocks and looks out over a barren plain from which all life seems to have vanished. She is disconnected from and has forgotten the Natural World she came from. She is waiting but can no longer remember what she’s waiting for…
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We would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to what is intended to be the first installment of our New Catalogue.
Rather than attempt to give here a full list of our considerable – and ever-changing! – stock, we would rather focus on items that we feel are a little bit more ‘special’ than those we sell through regular online markets: in some cases because of their age and/or rarity, in others simply because of the authors or subject matter concerned. Listings will be grouped or ‘themed’ accordingly, and to begin with priced at a slight discount exclusive to this website.
All Orders will be sent First Class Recorded Delivery within the U.K. We are happy to accept Orders from outside the U.K., but we would ask that you Contact us to discuss Shipping & Handling. PayPal is the preferred means of payment, and we will be glad to send an Invoice for your Order.
We will be adding to this List over the coming weeks, so please check back for Updates. We are also happy to undertake Free Searches without Obligation, so please – feel free to send us your ‘Wants’ lists!
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Emma & Matthew/WhollyBooks
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With Beltane behind us and as we gear up for the End-of-the-World, Mayan Calendar style, we felt the Stars Were Right to lay upon the altar of our discerning public the first offerings from our Spring Collection – and as befits these Apocalyptic ‘End Times’, we have decided to start with a small selection of choice titbits from that cuddly and much-loved avatar of The Great Beast of Revelations himself: the Laird of Boleskine, Khaled Khan, Count Vladimir Svareff, the Reverend C. Verey, Oliver Haddo, Alys Cusack when “hot at home” (!), self-proclaimed reincarnation of Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, Ko Hsuen, Edward Kelley, and Eliphas Levi, described by the gutter-press in his day as “the wickedest man in the world” and “a man we want to hang”…none other than Edward Alexander, better known to the world and infamy as Aleister Crowley: Frater Perdurabo, The Master Therion, and Prophet of the Aeon of Horus!
Proceed at your peril…
’777 and Other Qabalistic Writings’ (Weiser Books, softback, 1986 reprint) £13.00
‘The Book of Thoth’ (Samuel Weiser, Inc., softback, 1999 reprint) £13.00
‘The Stratagem And Other Stories’ (Temple Press First Edition, hardback, 1990) £20.00
‘The Drug and Other Stories’ (Wordsworth, paperback, 2010) Edited & with an Introduction by William Breeze, Foreword by David Tibet £4.18
‘The Magical World of Aleister Crowley’ by Francis King (Arrow, paperback, 1987) the original edition of the book that was later reprinted by Creation as ‘Megatherion’ £13.00
‘Perdurabo’ by Richard Kaczynski (New Falcon First Edition, softback, 2002) £20.00
‘Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus’ by Paul Weston (Avalonian Aeon First Edition, softback, 2009) £11.00
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We would also like to take this opportunity to mention that copies of ‘Aleister Crowley & the Yi-King’ by Matthew Levi Stevens (written for The Atlantis Bookshop, presented @ Crowleymass 2008, the original edition of which is long since Sold Out) are still available in the form of a Signed A5 chapbook of 14 pages, price £3.33
Further to our ‘Introductory Offer’ discounted prices, any Order of two-or-more books from this and/or any subsequent List over the Summer will receive a copy of the chapbook ABSOLUTELY FREE!
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A series of sketches for the Second Chapter of The Book of Dark Things, provisionally entitled ‘The Curvature of Time’, with accompanying Notes from a variety of sources
‘The Curvature of Time in oral primitive cultures is very difficult to articulate on the page, for it defies the linearity of the printed line’
- David Abram ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’
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‘Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past’
- T S Eliot ‘Burnt Norton’
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‘…the Time dimension, for any given observer, is simply the dimension in which his own world-line happens to extend through the four-dimensional continuum…’
- J W Dunne ‘An Experiment With Time’
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‘Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth’
- H P Lovecraft ‘The Dunwich Horror’
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‘Since this vertical dimension exists at any and all places, one has but to signal intersection. The sign of the cross appears everywhere, whenever communication or traffic between the worlds is indicated. The vertical dimension comprehends both the abyss below and the heavens above the earth, the dimension of infinity; the horizontal comprehends all men, all space and matter’
- Maya Deren ‘The White Darkness’
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All Artwork by Emma Doeve
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A selection of Audio old & new & inbetween can be found here:
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“All ceremonials begin with the salute to the guardian of the Crossroads, the Loa principle of Crossing, of Communications with the Divine World…
…but that World of Les Invisibles is also the cosmic cemetery of the souls of all the Dead.”
- Maya Deren
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Flashback:
Aloysius Beavoir is having a bad night – he knew he should never have returned
He approaches the Crossroads to find a rooster tied by a knotted thread to what looks like a nail driven into the hard-packed earth. Al is flooded with a sense of relief when he realises that this must be the fork in the road to take back to the village
He pulls the nail from the hard-packed earth, places it in his pants pocket, slings the bird over his shoulder, and sets off…
…following his Papa into Hell
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Water of the Kwala River – In that country a mother does not know her child
Water of the Kwala River – Under the Water, a mother does not know her child, oh!
Under the Water, a father does not know his child, oh!
Under the peristyle, the Waters of the Kwala River…
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Stella: We all need to get back to the spirits of the place we come from, try and take the trouble to actually get in touch with something – and FEEL it
Al: All this Left Hand Path, Right Hand Path, more like Sleight-of-Hand Path, know what I’m saying? They think the gods and spirits are just ideas in their heads… but when the Loa come, you KNOW they’re REAL!
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To move from one place to another is easy
- To move from one state of mind, or even feeling, to another is often harder
There are Paths that can start anywhere, everywhere
And yet lead nowhere,
there is a Road that passes between Worlds, without really belonging to either…
…this is the Road that Stella & Al are travelling…
Perhaps they’ve been on it all their lives?
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