One of the most frequent questions I get in person is "What are you reading?" I hate answering this, especially to people I don't know, because 1) its none of their fucking business, and 2) usually they would have no idea what it is about or why I would be interested in it. I'm also irrationally protective of my privacy, like anyone really gives a rat's ass what I'm into or why, or when. This is the reason I rarely post book reviews even though I'm a voracious reader and typically read several books a week.
So for those who are interested at all, this is the tip of the iceberg, by way of highlights from my backlog/record of dot-com orders from the past two years or so. Remember this barely scratches the surface of what I read. I own an antiquarian/second-hand bookstore and typically bring home SEVERAL BOXES of books every week for my own use. There is no way I'm going to log all that, much less everything I actually read, skim, or browse through for specific pieces of information.
These are in reverse order, most recent first:
Gregorian Chant (A Midland Book)
Willi Apel
Solving in Style
John Nunn
Chess Wizardry: The New ABC of Chess Problems (American Batsford Chess Library)
John Rice
Scratchboard for Illustration
Ruth Lozner
The Art of Scratchboard
Cecile Curtis
Bonatti on Nativities
Guido Bonatti, Benjamin N Dykes
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq
Michael Scheuer
Rene Guenon: A Teacher for Modern Times
Julius Evola
For My Legionaries (The Iron Guard)
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
The Prison Notes
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Julius Evola
The Complete Picatrix: The Occult Classic Of Astrological Magic Liber Atratus Edition
John Michael Greer, Christopher Warnock
Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: The 1758-1760 Hertel Edition of Ripa's Iconologia with 200 Engraved Illustrations
Cesare Ripa
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism
John Gage
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Color & Culture)
John Gage
Syncretism in the West : Pico's 900 Theses (1486) : The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems : With a Revised Text, English Tr
Stephen A. Farmer, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery
Lyndy Abraham
A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (1635).
George. Introduction by Rosemary Freeman.
The Transcendent Unity of Religions (Quest Book)
Frithjof Schuon, Huston Smith
An International Armorial: The Historical File of the House of Leopardi of Constantinople
Leopardi
The Greek Qabalah: Alphabetical Mysticism and Numerology in the Ancient World
Kieren Barry
Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression
Vincent Foster Hopper
An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage
Rene Guenon
Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts
Mircea Eliade, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art (2 Vol. Set)
Helene E. Roberts
Iconography of Christian art (2 Vol. Set)
Gertrud Schiller
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Robert Darnton
Signs and Symbols in Christian Art: With Illustrations from Paintings from the Renaissance (Galaxy Books)
George Ferguson
Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged
Arthur E. Waite
Master of Death: The Lifeless Art of Pierre Remiet, Illuminator
Michael Camille
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards
Michael Dummett
Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Mediaeval Art
Adolf Katzenellenbogen
A Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)
Umberto Eco
The Magical Calendar: A Synthesis of Magial Symbolism from the Seventeenth-Century Renaissance of Medieval Occultism (Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourcewo)
Adam McLean
The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Material Texts)
Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski
The Search for Neofascism: The Use and Abuse of Social Science
A. James Gregor
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
Erwin Panofsky, Gerda S. Panofsky
A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Nicholas A. Basbanes
D'Annunzio
Tommaso Antongini
Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice (Issues in contemporary civilization)
Renzo De Felice
Mussolini
Anthony James Joes
The First Duce: D'Annunzio at Fiume
Professor Michael Arthur Ledeen
The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism)
Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, ARAS
Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art (A Guide to Imagery)
Matilde Battistini
"Boney" Fuller: The Intellectual General
Anthony John Trythall
Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance
E.H. Gombrich
The Forty Chapters of al-Kindi
Abu Yusuf al-Kindi
Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, and Occult Revelations
Joscelyn Godwin
Works of Sahl & Masha'allah
Sahl ibn Bishr, et al
Introductions to Traditional Astrology
Abu Ma'shar, et al
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Owen Davies
Persian Nativities I: Masha'allah and Abu 'Ali
Masha'allah, et al
Persian Nativities II: 'Umar al-Tabari and Abu Bakr
Umar al-Tabari, et al
Persian Nativities III: Abu Ma'shar on Solar Revolutions
Abu Ma'shar
Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy
Joseph Crane
The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology
Vivian E. Robson
The Judgments of Nativities
Abu Ali Al-Khayyat,
Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi (The Fons Vitae Titus Burckhardt series)
Titus Burckhardt, et al
Ecology in the Twentieth Century: A History
Anna Bramwell
The Transformist Illusion
Douglas Dewar
The Path of Cinnabar
Julius Evola
Principles of Tantra (Parts 1 and 2 bound in One) The Tantratattva of Sriyukta Siva Candra Vidyarnava Bhattacarya Mahodaya
Arthur Avalon, John Woodroffe
On the Genre and Message of Revelation: Star Visions and Sky Journeys
Bruce J. Malina
Book of Instructions in the Elements of the Art of Astrology
et al Al Biruni
The Beginning of Wisdom (Translation From Hebrew)
Avraham Ibn Ezra, et al
Primary Directions: Astrology's Old Master Technique
Martin Gansten
Ancient Astrology Theory and Practice: Matheseos Libri VIII
Julius Firmicus Maternus
Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things
Martin Lings, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
Classical Music of North India the First Years of Study: The Music of the Baba Allauddin Gharana As Taught by Ali Akbar Khan at the Ali Akbar College
Ali Akbar Khan, George Ruckert
The Raga Guide: Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas
Various Artists
101 Raga-s for the 21st Century and Beyond: A Music Lover's Guide to Hindustani Music
Haresh Bakshi
Ragas of Northern Indian Music
Alain Danielou
Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century)
Michael Nyman
Stockhausen on Music
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robin Maconie
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
Derek Bailey
Homo americanus:: Child of the Postmodern Age
Tomislav Sunic
Against Democracy and Equality: The New European Right
Tomislav Sunic, et al
New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe
Michael O'Meara

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