KELTON, ARYAN (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. DJ has a tear to the top spine end and a tear to the rear upper outer corner. DJ has slight wear to the other extremities. Page ends are slightly foxed. Endpapers have traces of foxing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the ffep. Very good in a worn dust jacket missing a 2"X3" piece at the upper corner of the front panel. 8vo. 215 pp.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Lenoir (illustratore). First Edition. Kelton, Aryan. Dagmar. San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., [1924]. First edition. Large 16mo, pp. [1-9] 10-228 [229-232: blank]. Original sage green pictorial cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white. Illustrated with a crude line drawing at frontis signed "Lenoir." A good solid copy of this scarce, self-published book. #3246. $45. This eccentric amateur novel is a hybrid of murder mystery, love story, and marginal occult romance. The action rambles over varied parts of the U.S., including New York City, Denver and Boise, Indiana. The protagonist, a middle-aged clerk, bemoans lost investment opportunities but fancies himself something of an expert on occult matters. When he gets to The Big Apple, he prints up business cards that read, "DAGMAR / The Mystic." The author plants numerous hints of occult matters but doesn't nourish them. The most substantial bit of fantasy relates to the hero's belief that he had been psychically manipulated into visiting a certain hotel so he could be framed for a murder committed by one Jim Burgan, a deed described by the author as "a pre-arranged frame-up arbitrated by a master criminal mental telepathic manifestation, controlled by a demon, who ruled and featured an individual by a mystic will, into his fiendish purpose." The writing is, even by the standards of vanity publishing, a remarkably awkward and disorganized piece of work. The author dipped into similar territory in 1933 with The Great Haddon, a futuristic tale of a nefarious psychoanalyst who tries to take over the country. Smith K-102. Not in Hubin IV or standard fantasy reference works.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First Edition. Red cloth with black lettering. Some light browning to endpapers, else internally clean. Dust jacket spine faded; shallow chipping at head of spine; a couple small holes in panels; in an archival mylar sleeve. Jacket illustration by Edson D. Bills, a commercial illustrator in San Francisco. 215 pages. A novel set in California, in a milieu of gold mining and San Francisco newspapermen, which pivots around encounters with a mysterious, elderly seer living in a cabin in the woods near Mt Shasta. A metaphysical story. Inscribed by Kelton to Murray Wade (1876-1961), a prominent cartoonist and journalist who had worked for the San Francisco Post, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Portland Telegram. Aryan Lewis Kelton (1892-1957) was a traveling lecturer in the 1920s and 1930s and claimed to be a high initiate of the Mt Shasta Lemurian Younger Brotherhood. He spoke on topics such as the True Principles of Mind, yoga, prosperity, health, psychology and the Mount Shasta Masters. He was also the author The Great Haddon and The Power of the Universe. Most of his lectures took place up and down the West Coast.

First Edition. THE GREAT HADDON, Hart, 1933, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in an attractive color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and chipping. A psychoanalyst uses mental telepathy to his own ends. Quite scarce.

HARD BACK BROWN. Condizione: FAIR. Faded gilt title on cover and spine.Slight rubbing. Deckled foreedge. DATE PUBLISHED: 1929 EDITION: 240.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Oversized. Brown boards, with even fading. Title/Author in gilt on front cover and Spine, faded. Rubbed along all edges. Threaded at corner tips, head & heel of spine. Binding shaken. Interior pp clean, mellow with age. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. FFEP has upper corner clipped on the diagonal. Solid hiinges. Frontispiece page is laid in, detached. It is signed on reverse, "Aryan Kelton, 1930, Compliments of Fred and Vera". I have no way of verifying if this is the author's signature or not and am not guaranteeing it to be authentic. Plate at page 143 detached, laid in. B&W Illustrations 4to 11" - 13" tall 241 pages Chapter Headings: Some Startling Facts Regarding the Sub-Conscious; Psycho-Analysis; The Psychology of Advertising; The Struggling Human Being; Luck; Logic, the Beginning of Man's Reasoning; The Active Mind; Higher Form of Reasoning; Applied Psychology; Imagination; The Law of Association and Habit; Building Laws of Love and Association; The Super-Conscious Mind.