Ellipsis Rare Books

We’re pleased to present one of the newest highlights from our collection premiering at the Books in Boston this weekend: an original hectograph copy of the Hymn to Satan by Tigrina from 1941.

This two sided sheet represents one of likely fewer than 100 copies of the music and lyrics for a planned Satanic black mass written by early Los Angeles scifi fan Edith Eyde, who wrote as Lisa Ben or Tigrina The Devil Doll. Noted as perhaps the first example of “filk” music, Eyde was also the creator of Vice Versa, “America’s Gayest Magazine”, the first known American publication aimed at le****ns which ran from 1947 - 1948. (Eyde’s other pen name, Lisa Ben, is a play on “lesbian”).

A copy of Hymn to Satan is one of the highlights of the current exhibition, Sci-Fi, Magick, Q***r L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagini-nation at One Archives at the USC Libraries, but you can see ours in person this weekend at Books In Boston at the Back Bay Hilton this Saturday from 8am to 4pm.

Hope to see some of you there!

Physically, we are back in Brooklyn, but Berlin and the Occulture Conference stole our hearts.

This past weekend was a kaliedoscopic experience of enlightening and inspiring talks, rituals, and conversations with like-minded, friendly, and interesting people from around the world that made us feel welcomed and honored to be part of the adventure. It was a unique pleasure to share our work and collection with such an appreciative audience and to see some of our favorite pieces go home with some incredible minds.

Our voices are still recovering from excitedly nerding out about books and our minds are stilll assimilating the download of ideas. Between talking about historical ritual reconstruction, William Burroughs, AI, occult fine bindings, the Icelandic sagas, opera, outsider art, piracy, spiritualism, and surrealism, this may be the most entertaining and educational event we’ve ever been to, let alone vended at.

All this to say: we’re big fans.

Thank you to the for bringing togther such a fascinating group and to all the amazing organizers, presenters, and attendees who made it an unforgettable weekend.

SURPRISE 🏴‍☠️ Starting this weekend the ephemeral Ellipsis Rare Bookshop is appearing in Red Hook 🪝 Saturdays + Sundays through March. Hours are 11 - 7. Drop in for esoteric offerings ranging from talismanic and ritual magic to psychedelia and surrealist thought. Highlights include a collection of first edition William G Gray books owned by the late occult author Raven Grimassi, the first separately published edition of ’s Co***ne, and a signed (by Burroughs) first edition of The Third Mind by and .

The shop is located on Van Brunt between Wolcott and Dikeman (couple doors down from )

20% of profits will be donated to local arts and historical non-profit

It was between this and “Let it Snow” ❄️

(1973) First separate publication of Crowley’s essay responding to cocaine’s prohibition in the USA.

First Edition Thus