[OCCULT] Applied magic

London : The Aquarian Press ; New York : Wehman Bros., 1962. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s cream cloth with gold lettering to spine (gleaming and unmarked), in the yellow dust jacket printed in red (price-clipped, but superb); pp. viii, 110; contents immaculate, a very fine copy.

A posthumous collection of previously unpublished writings by British occultist Violet Mary Firth (1890-1946), who used the nom de plume of Dion Fortune. Chapter headings include The Occult Way, Some Practical Applications of Occultism, The Group Mind, The Psychology of Ritual, The Circuit of Force, Black Magic, The Occult Field Today, A Magical Body, Non-humans, and Esoteric Glossary.