THE OCCULT REVIEW: VOLUME 14, JULY-DECEMBER 1911
Book Details + Condition: William Rider & Son (London). Volume 14, 1911. First UK Editions of the highly influential and pre-eminent journal of the 20th century, THE OCCULT REVIEW. (The US editions were issued one month after the British.) This compilation spans July - December, 1911. Privately bound with marbled hardcover boards and three-quarters leather binding. Raised bands and gilt to spine; floral endpapers. Includes the bookplate of famous suffragist Alice Eugenie (du Pont) Ortiz. 362 pages, followed by reviews and timely occult advertisements (one such review is for the release of Crowley's The Equinox). Front board is cracked at hinges (and may have been re-attached at some point), but binding remains firm; rubbed corners and edges; small old water stain to corner of front & rear endpapers; interior has 15-20 pages of pencilled notations in margins, which we kept due to the book's provenance. (One such note referred to a correspondence with one of the contributors, for instance.)
Edited by Ralph Shirley, THE OCCULT REVIEW contained essays on all aspects of occultism, from alchemy to witchcraft; there was emphasis on magic, as many of its authors had been members of the Golden Dawn or its offshoots. Most of the eminent occultists of the period contributed to the journal, such as Frater Achad, Arthur Avalon, Annie Besant, Theodore Besterman, J.W. Brodie-Innes; Hereward Carrington, Mabel Collins, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Ada Goodrich-Freer; Franz Hartmann, D. D. Home, E.J. Langford Garstin; Michael Juste; William Kingsland, G.R.S. Mead; Sylvan J. Muldoon, Elliot O'Donnell, H. Stanley Redgrove, Sax Rohmer; Eduoard Schure, Lewis Spence, Meredith Starr, Montague Summers, and A.E. Waite. In addition to essays, poems, artwork, and illustrations, each issue typically contained the editor's 'Notes of the Month,' letters from the public, book reviews, and advertisements. This compiled volume contains such articles as: An Earth-bound Soul; St. Catherine of Siena (A.E. Waite); Reincarnation; Magic and Miracles; Mysticism and Monasticism (H. Stanley Redgrove); Some Experiences of a Psychic (Hereward Carrington); The Mystical Basis of Masonry; The Power of Numbers (Sepharial); Haunted by a Human Cat (Elliott O'Donnell); The Spirits of Nature (Franz Hartmann); Bram Stoker; Guardian Angels; and so much more. A true gem of first edition occult literature, and a fascinating treasure-trove of knowledge, for occult and spiritualist collectors. Please see our other listings for more OCCULT REVIEW first edition volumes.
