Salivatingly Beautiful Magic Books

[uair01]

This is a weblog about luxury editions of occult books. If you're a book lover this will either make you salivate or make you green with envy. Nothing below 200 dollars. Notice the white gloves

http://balkansarcanebindings.blogspot.nl/

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Nice - but a touch clinical.

I like my texts to have the odd alchemical stain.

 

[ramonmercado]

Or Demon scorch.

 

[MercuryCrest]

Let's see...if it's red wine, I pretreat, then sponge the area with alchohol...if it's blood, peroxide should do the trick... :shock:

 

[skinny]

The Ninth Gate is a fun film. Polanski's wife couldn't act to save her life though. Boris Balkan is a character from the film, and this blog appears to have modelled his/her online persona on that character. The illustrations from The Sacrificial Universe are amazing. Would love to spend a few elevated hours with that text. I love old books.

 

[uair01]

Hmmm ... there seems to be a market for ridiculously expensive magic books. I don't know what to make of this:

http://www.lapuliabookofshadows.com/

 

[Heckler]

Hmmm ... there seems to be a market for ridiculously expensive magic books. I don't know what to make of this:

http://www.lapuliabookofshadows.com/

I collect the grimoires that Avalonia books occasionally produce and they usually produce them in a mass market paperback version (which I buy as I'm interested in the contents not the cover) and a limited edition velum paged leather bound volume which despite being a significant chunk of change fly off the shelves so there is a market.

I suppose if I just wanted a Boris Balkan style book shelf of the forbidden for my man cave and I had the cash then I probably would indulge.

 

[uair01]

Saw that someone made this gorgeous binding for his chaos magick book:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1507387834977689608

It's this book:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dkmu/dp/...id=1648299321&sprefix=liber+ls",aps,93&sr=8-2

 

[skinny]

Look up Foolish Fish on Youtube. He gets the best stuff and gives in-depth reviews of both form and content. I've seen no better, though Justin Sledge's Esoterica channel is relative. Both top scholars.

 

[Junopsis]

Saw that someone made this gorgeous binding for his chaos magick book:
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It's this book:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dkmu/dp/1534842624/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1RNCS0NXMSSYN&keywords=„liber+ls“&qid=1648299321&sprefix=liber+ls",aps,93&sr=8-2

Oh, it's the thingy!
The thingy from Unicode, that no one was quite sure about! Like you can trace it back to some of the inputs to the Unicode library but not further, IIRC? Since those were easy to buy into.

The this: ⍼
I think that, however unintentionally (and I do think it unintentional that the unknown symbol is there, in the computer history sense), the fact that no one's got a bead on it makes it the perfect sigil.

 

[IbisNibs]

Hmmm ... there seems to be a market for ridiculously expensive magic books. I don't know what to make of this:

It either means that people who practice magic are nuts enough to pay a lot for books, or that people who practice magic become . . . rich?
Or the buyers are a bunch of wealthy tech people who grew up on Dungeons and Dragons . . .