Society of the Horseman's Word
Ed. Ben Fernee
Standard £25, deluxe £100
Hinckley Leics: Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2009.  A collection of documents and essays on this secret society, which is so intimately associated with traditional witchcraft in the current imagination.  Standard edition £25. Deluxe copies are limited to 100 in number and are hand- numbered and signed by a living member of the Society. It has a limp full leather binding (the same kind as used for horse harness) with decorations in real gold. Tipped in is an envelope (of the same kind as traditionally used) containing horsehair knotted in a special way – just the same was placed on a young man’s bed to invite him to join the Society of the Horseman’s Word. £100 for deluxe.

Picatrix [first ever English translation of Latin Picatrix]
Trans. John Michael Greer and Christopher Warnock
£39.95 (special import)
First ever English translation of the Latin Picatrix -- the most influential grimoire of the Middle Ages. Of Arabic origin, it made its way into the Latin West and influenced not only European grimoires but Renaissance Astrology, notably Marsilio Ficino. The most important medieval text on planetary magic, complete with incense recipes, invocations to the spirits of the planets, spells, curses and wonders. Translation is based on the Latin critical edition edited by David Pingree, plus spirit names in Arabic.   308pp. Paperback.

De Imaginibus [Of Images]
Thabit Ibm Qurra
£16.99 (special import)
Translated Christopher Warnock. This is the first-ever English translations of an important planetary magic text. 'Of Images' is a grimoire which enjoyed wide circulation in the Middle Ages - influencing Albertus Magnus, Marsilio Ficino and Cornelius Agrippa. Described is a highly sophisticated astrological and planetary magic. Explains how to attune talismans to individual birth charts. Talismans for horary and electional astrology - in a fascinating technique. 64 pages, in 6 inch by 9 inch standard paperback

The Latin Picatrix - [with Selected English Translations]
Ed. Christopher Warnock
£30 (special import)

The Picatrix is a grimoire with focus on astrological magic - instructions for rituals, talismans, workings, spells, incense, potions. Most influential grimoire ever, affecting even Renaissance magic. 233 pages total. 150 pages are Latin facsimile version of Sloane MS 3679 (William Lilly's copy of Picatrix).77 pages are selected English translations with extensive commentaries by the editor, himself a traditional astrologer. Translated sections: Arabic Picatrix, Book I Chapters 1-4 & commentary. Forms of the Planets Book III, Chapter 3. Selected Planetary Talisman Translations Book II, Chapter 10. Adocentyn, the Talismanic City Book IV, Chapter 3 & commentary. House-based talismans Book I, Chapter 5 commentary. Ritual Preparations Book III, chapter 7 & commentary. Arabic Picatrix Planetary Invocations Book III, Chapter 8 & commentary. Operation of Jupiter Book III, Chapter 9 The Jovial Feast & commentary. Invocation of Perfect Nature Book III Chapter 6.  Book has total of 233 pages, 8.5 x 11 inch, paperback.

Waratah III - Star Building

SOLD

Enmore: 418 Press, 2006. Australian Thelemic journal, magnificent production.  highlights the work of Fr. Numa, an important figure in Australian O.T.O. from early 1990s. Much on the  nature and mission of the O.T.O, its processes and initiation. Ten articles, eight by Frater Numa. Art by Barry William Hale and collaborators, and the art diaries of Steven McCubben. Quarto, 154 pages, 8 in colour, high quality 130gsm matt art paper. Edition limited to 190 copies (plus 20 copies artists’ edition)  Review on Lashtal http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Reviews-req-showcontent-id-46.phtml) . Softback.

Crampton: A Screenplay
Thomas Ligotti and Brandon Trenz
£40

London: David Tibet at Durtro Press, 2002. Ligotti, a sometime collaborator with Thelemic band Current 93, is a writer of weird fiction, once called "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" by the Washington Post. The screenplay comes with ‘The Unholy City’ (2003) a CD album of six tracks inspired by it. Paperback, with CD.

De Virtutibus Lapidus, The Virtues of Stones
Damigeron (attrib.). Trans. Patricia Tahil
£35
Seattle: Ars Obscura Press, 2005. An early (Greco-Roman) tract on the magic of stones – attributed to a 2nd century BC magician in the Near East. Magical use of 50 stones including diamond, emerald, sapphire, coral, hematite, agate, obsidian, topaz, magnetite, chalcedony, beryl. The original crystal magic and crystal healing of the Western esoteric tradition. This book gives an English translation of the Latin edition printed in Spicilegium Solosmense (Paris: Didot, 1855, vol III, 324-35), itself a 5th century Latin translation of a Greek original. Translator’s commentary from Thorndyke’s History of Magic. The Latin text included. Hardback in dustwrapper, edition limited to 250 hand-numbered copies.

Old Tradition Crafte
Robin Artisan (ed. Joel Radcliffe)
£40

Seattle: Ars Obscura Press, 2005 [1986]. Hardback with dustwrapper, edition limited to 1,000 hand-numbered copies. Contains three texts.

Text 1. Stone Magic. Making and forging metal tools for making rune stones, then symbols of traditional witch runes and how to work with them in spells and divination. Emphasis on connecting with spirit of stone and nature. Witch runes not seen elsewhere.

Text 2. The Guild Book. Outlining the rites and beliefs of a coven claiming descent from the North Berwick witches. Centred upon craft guild model, a male master, female consort, and in which the covenstead is the shop. Horned god worship, Initiation rite, sabbat form and circle setup.

Text 3. Spellbook of Dr Fian, whom the authors allege was head of the coven master of the North Berwick Witches (prosecuted 1590). Reprinted here to show witchcraft in its old, authentic form, say authors. Initiation ceremony with marking, oath, shamanic dance, witch name and ale drinking. Sabbat rites led by male Master, supported by female consort. Divinations, witch bottles, familiars, thread charms, knots, tools.

Appendix. Reprint of late 16th century English account of Dr Fian, aka Cunningham.

Football Voodoo
Chris Roberts
£9.99

London: F&M, 2010. Magic, Superstition and Religion in the Beautiful Game. A fun, thought-provoking read. Treadwell’s is in the credits as having helped a bit with background info on magic. – thanks! Paperback.

Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path (Dark Moon Rising)
Raven Kaldera
£17.99 special import

The most serious guide, based in long practice, of the actual working of physical ordeal, hardcore BDSM, and profound transformative magic using transgression.  Is gender aware, queer-sensitive. Author is a pioneer of trans awareness in occultism and pagan communities. Softback.

Equinox Festival Book
Strange Attractor, eds
£9.99

London: Strange Attractor, 2009. Articles by festival participants: Alan Moore, Erik Davis, Carl Abrahamsson, Philip Farber, Robert Wallis, Z’ev, Ralph Metzner, Peter Christopherson, David Beth, Paola Igliori, Raymon Harmon, Paul Devereux, Mark Pilkington, Stephen Grasso Art by Barry William Hale, Edwin Pouncey, Orrylle Defenestrate Bascule. Interviews & notes on musicians: Comus, Aethenor, Barry Hale, John Zorn, Threshold HouseBoys Choir, TAGC, Dieter Muh, Rob Mazurek, K 11, Pestrepeller, Hati Knit Her, Burial Hex etc.

The Keys to the Gateway of Magic
Stephen Skinner and David Rankine, Eds.
£35

London and Singapore: Golden Hoard, 2005.  Subtitled  'Summoning the Solomonic Archangels and Demonic Princes', it is 3 17^th century angelic/goetic texts: Janua Magica Reserata, Nine Hierarchies of Angels with their Invocations, The Demon Princes. Useful for ceremonialists working spirit magic from older sources - practical, manuscript based.

Women’s Voices in Magic
Brandy Williams, Ed
£11.99

Stafford: Megalithica, 2009. Articles by contemporary women magicians: hermeticism, Golden Dawn, kink magic, Babalon, Lilith, left hand path, Florence Farr, Ithell Colquhoun, Appalachian, Egyptian. Magic and tradition, innovation, pregnancy, gender, stereotype, transgression. 

Infernal Proteus
A Musical Herbal
£38.00
A Musical Herbal ~ being 4 CDs set in a 96pp hardback book with full color illustrations. Forty bands: each illustrates a plant with music. 13 countries represented; has received brilliant reviews.  One reviewer wrote: "arguably represents the culmination of artistic intent in the neofolk / neoclassical / experimental scene in terms of both music and conception. The most jaded listener cannot help but gape at the array of artists Ajna's Tyler Davis has managed to rope into this visual-musical catalogue of flora." International,  innovative, professional production, beautiful presentation. Truly original. Treadwell's five-star recommendation. Special Import. Jacksonville OR: Ajna, 2002

The SPILL Performance Tarot
Pacitti Company
£50.00.
 London: Pacitti Company, 2009. Limited edition The SPILL arts festival (www.spillfestival.com) commissioned photographer Manuel Vason to work with a range of ‘maverick’ artists of the 2009 festival, with each artist restaging one tarot card. The Magician card was shot at Treadwell's Bookshop, using Treadwell's props, staged by performance artist Helena Hunter. Those who know the shop will recognise the background to the striking image -- yes, it's Treadwell's bookshelves! Manuel Vason is now widely considered to be one of the world’s foremost performance photographers, and the SPILL Festival Of Performance is London's premiere biennale of experimental theatre and live art. Treadwell's tarot reader Diana Taylor co-chaired the launch seminar of the deck in Soho Square in Summer 2009, and did an inaugural divinatory reading for festival director Robert Pacitti.The tarot deck is 78 photos of 78 stagings, in a limited edition deck, presented in a specially designed box and cellophane wrapped.

The Call - Vinyl LP album
Dieter Müh and Lon Milo Duquette
£15
Heavyweight white vinyl in an edition of 230 copies on Dieter Müh's own HaemOccult Recordings imprint.  Reviewed in Compulsiononline.com: "UK underground electronic outfit return with their own material on The Call. The Call is perhaps the most significant work from Dieter Muh, as it features eminent occult author and Grand Master of the O.T.O. Lon Milo DuQuette reciting Enochian texts, a series of calls in the language of the angels. 'The Call' is based on the work of Dr John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, and the texts recorded by his scyrer Edward Kelley, who he said were dictated to him in the angel's own language.

'The Call' enters to an atmospheric build up of chiming metal bowls and quietly understated howls of ambient electronics shifting to passages of ringing metal bowls. Its slow pace providing an unmistakeable ritual setting for the poised tones of Lon Milo DuQuette, as he effortlessly wrestles with the intricacies of the Enochian tongue over the shimmer of singing bowls." The second side is "Sutreword", a live performance in Germany: "improvisary performance of Dieter Muh's murky industrial and occult electronics. Skittery electronics are woven with pulses, rattling tones with an assortment of taped voices fed through the mix. With a mass of electronic devices and sampled sources" (compulsiononline.org). Recommended.

The Pyrognomic Glass (Vinyl LP)
Xenis Emputae Trveling Band
£20
An esoteric albut in vinyl LP,  which comes with an A5 booklet entitled Abital, or Conferences with the Genii of Nocturnal and Diurnal Dew, in vii Chapters. Two longform tracks, Abital and Rorosa. Released 2005, booklet date 2009. Great review here: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=1031

La Luna (CD Album)
Johnny Hodge
£10
A rollicking album of Thelema-inspired bluegrass from a London-based guitarist and larger-than life character, the one and only Johnny Hodge. Here's a little about the album: "Johnny had been living in a strange flat near the British Museum a situation very much attuned to such hermetic work & close to the all. A newly formed alliance with the Benu Bird Camp of the O.T.O resulted in Johnny becoming Music master & the commision of various relevant songs that were to become the bulk of "La Luna" that track itself being something of an homage to Mr. Crowley , indeed the 1st 5 tracks (side one perhaps) are all musical spells of some sort or other. Hymn to Pan; Crowley's rocking poem of 1919e.v "Helas Helas" an abrogation of; Liber Resh, A.C's adoration of the sun."

Pan Paradox
An ecstatic narration on Pan: Pan Towards Chaos
Out of Print - £90
Ixaxaar Press, 2008. An ecstatic narration on Pan: Pan Towards Chaos, Paradoxical Panic essence, PanAgoceros, Loki, Lucifer, Panic entities, Grimalkin, Baphomet, Præmeditatio ritus panos, Correspondences of Pan, Ritus Panos, Panic ritual area & tools, Pan pæanis, Pan ritual. Hardcover, black cloth boards. Symbol blocked in silver on the cover, small octavo. Many black-and-white illustrations. Standard limited edition of 677 hand-numbered copies. Now out of print and sought after

Conjuration and an Excellent Discourse of the Nature and Substance of Devils and Spirits
Anonymous
£90

Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2006. Limited edition of 120 copies, blue cloth boards and leather spine (quarter leather, navy goatskin). This tract, here republished separately for the first time, is a 17th-century English guide to summoning spirits. The text appeared as two appendices to the third edition of Reginald Scot’s Discoverie of Witchcraft (issued in 1665).

Book One

In book one, four rituals are described in detail:-

1. A necromantic rite summoning the spirit of a suicide, and how to gain knowledge from it.

2. A conjuration of three infernal spirits, experientially in considerable detail.

3. A rite to invoke one's Genius or Good Angel into a skrying crystal. A fascinating account of the visions that will precede the appearance of the angel is followed by the revelation that the Angel will take on the appearance of the magician himself. This ritual is very different from the usual cajoling and commanding of spirits as the magician respectfully invites the spirit to attend.

4. A ritual for obtaining a familiar.

Book Two is an essay on the nature of spirits, and discusses the personal Good Angel (or holy guardian angel) and on moral and philosophical issues in evocation.

Baneful Magick
E. A. Koetting
£95
Ixaxaar, 2008. New, as issued, no dust wrapper.

Chapter Papers: Being some observations on the symbolism of the Hellfire Club
Eamonn Loughran
£22
Essays, with features on the illustrations, floor cloth symbolism and points for cosmological contemplation of the Hellfire Club. Half-cloth, standard limited edition. Condition: New.

Cults of the Shadow
Kenneth Grant
£65
Published by Muller in 1975. Dust jacket worn, but book in good condition. Explores obscure aspects of occultism that have been frequently, and mistakenly, associated with the negative and sensational phenomenon of so called black magic.

Demongraphia: The Fountainhead of Diabolic Portraiture

£200. SOLD
First Edition, First English translation of the text. Text set in 10 & 11 point Janson Text & Goudy Text with ornamental devices. Includes bibliography and foldout frontispiece. Images printed on bright white matte finish French paper; completely acid-free. Specifications: 8 1/4 x 5 1/4, pp x, 96 pgs. Limited to an edition of 1,000 numbered copies. DEMONOGRAPHIA is a complete collection of the Louis Breton diabolic portraiture from "Dictionnaire Infernal". This collection has never before been published in its entirety and we feel seeing these images in the proper context will help the student of demonology 'flesh out' their ideas of what the descriptions given in works like "The Goetia" intended. Each illustration is reproduced line for line. They have not been reconstructed but are given exactly as in the original source work. The original descriptions given in "Dictionnaire Infernal" have been traslated from the French and will be included as an appendix to the gallery of illustrations.

Liber Yog-Sothoth (aka The Book of Yog-Sothoth)
Anon.
£149
Waning Moon Press. A detailed book instructing in detail in a rite of evocation of Yog Sogaoth, of the Cthulhu mythos. A beautiful volume, illustrated throughout with daemonic diagrammes. Preparation of the temple, dress, regalia, tools and inner preparation for the working.  The Old Ones, Parting the Veil, the Evocation Itself. Originally prepared for people who actually participation in a secret  group working of this ceremony. This special edition (approximately 5.5 x 8.75 inches in size) is bound in quarter leather (maroon goat skin) with heavy grey cuneiform-embossed paper on cover. Inside text block is ivory paper and black ink with some red images and highlights. Inner cover papers are hand-made black paper with marbled silver and gold ink. This edition is limited to 100 copies, and are hand numbered and signed by the author

The Consecrated Little Book of Black Venus or Tuba Veneris
attributed to John Dee
£150
Waning Moon Publications December 2007. Limited to 256 hand-numbered copies. Quarter-leather green goat skin binding, with striking copper-colored paper over boards, hand-marbled endpages. The work itself is presented in dual column format with the original Latin alongside English translation, by Teresa Burns & Nancy Turner, and illustrated by Jeffrey S. Kupperman and Darlene with contributions by Vincent Bridges and Phil Legard. 233 pages.

This is the first published translation of this book, into English, every copy is bound by hand, and each batch is started on the day of Venus. The Text is attributed to Dr. John Dee but veers from his better-known Enochian work.The grimoire instructs the magician in the proper preparations and tools needed to summon the six sprits ruled by Venus.

Abraxas Journal
In stock, but near end of run. Soon to go out of print.
£25
New journal of esotericism, art, scholarship, prose and letters.  Joint publication of Treadwell's and Fulgur, with high production values, colour prints, 126 pages, large format. Officially launched 22 September at the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, with party at Treadwell's in London on 30th October. Available from the shop, or deluxes by post from www.fulgur.co.uk.