The Occult Review. July-December 1918
Shirley, Ralph (Editor)
William Rider and Sons
1918
Half-leather. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Gilt titles to spine. 372p. Good with mild spine-sunning. Scuffing and wear to spine. Ends rubbed. Bookbinder sticker to second endpaper. Some pages browned.
6 months of The Occult Review magazine bound together. The Occult review published extensive reviews of the periodic literature and books of interest to Occultists. It offered a wide range of Occult topics which included telepathy, hauntings, spiritualism, hypnotism, alchemy, astrology, and other Hermetic subjects. It’s monthly publication ran from 1905-1951 and it’s contributors were a veritable Who’s Who of the Occult world from that period.
Articles include: The Twelve-Fold Path of the Glorious Nine by Leo French; Mystical Substitution by Montague Summers; The Occult Lore of Bells by Bernard Fielding; and The Ethereal and the Material by R.B. Span among many others.