The Occult, A History
New York: Random House, 1971. Second Printing. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over purple paper covered boards titled in green and silver gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 601pp. Some minor scuffing and bumping to corners and spine ends with some fraying of the paper to the rear front corner, strong and solid; internally clean, red endpapers, black topstain; in a clean dustjacket with some ragged shallow chipping to the spine ends, creasing to the upper edge and some yellowing of the laminate in places with an old price sticker to the rear panel. A very good copy in a good, strong dustjacket with some marginal wear and tear.
An accomplished and at the time rather reactionary attempt at a history and future of occult thinking and belief from Colin Wilson, writer, researcher, social philosopher, and all around British esoteric mad lad whose career covered every extreme from naked space vampires, through Crowley and Blavatsky, to Atlantis and the more Graham Hancock-esque arena of alternative archaeology, and revisionist histories.
Price: $55.00