New York: Times Books / Random House, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Aveni, a professor of astronomy and anthropology, approaches the subject as "an interested but skeptical inquirer, , His assumptions are scientific, rational, and secular as he charts the history of magical and supernatural beliefs and their pseudo-scientific manifestations, from early Greece and Rome through the Dark Ages of alchemy and witchcraft to the Age of Enlightenment and on to our New Age resurgence of belief in the spirit world." Notes, bibliography, index. xiii, 406 pp. ISBN: 0-812924150.

New York: Harper & Row, (1975). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive guide to the history of the Tarot and to the meanings of the cards. Illustrated throughout in both full color and black and white. Notes, bibliography, index. Quarto. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-060106883.

Buffalo, NY: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 1985. First edition - A journal issued quarterly by this organization which "attempts to encourage the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and to disseminate factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public." This includes articles on "The Columbus Poltergeist Case: Photos, Film, and Flim-Flam" by James Randi; "Moon & Murder: It's Moonshine"; "Investigating the Image of Guadalupe"; "Phrenology and Gullibility"; UFOs and Radar" and more. Illustrated. pp. 194-304.

Blauvelt, N.Y: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1970. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Lives of the famous alchemistical philosophers from the year 850 to the close of the 18th century, together with a study of the principles and practice of alchemy, including a bibliography of alchemical and hermetic philosophy." Lives of more than 50 alchemists, including Geber, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Isaac of Holland, Thomas Norton and more. A reprint of the 1888 ed. published under title: 'Lives of alchemystical philosophers' which was in turn based on "The lives of alchemystical philosophers," London, 1815, originally issued anonymously and generally ascribed to Francis Barrett. New introduction for this edition by Paul M. Allen. Index. 315 pp plus 4 pp illustrations.

New York: Bantam, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - "While living on the flank of an active Hawaiian volcano between 1985 and 1989, the anthropologist Dr. Henry Wesselman had a series of visionary experiences. Projected 5000 years into the future, into the consciousness of a Hawaiian kahuna, or shamanic healer, named Nainoa, he learned that Western civilization had been destroyed by a sudden rise in the ocean level. Through his paranormal interactions with Nainoa across the millennia, Wesselman has adventures in the spirit world and also watches as a band of Hawaiian natives who survived the cataclysm sail to the former California coast to rediscover the lost, devastated continent of North America." Notes. 383 pp. ISBN: 0553099760.