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Leilah Wendell and The Necromantic Ritual Book

totep

02:02 / 03.11.08

I don't particularly care about the 'magick' - or even 'ethical' - aspects of this book, nor the whole debate around it. I just have a question regarding the book it's self.
I was at a local new/used bookstore and came across a leather bound, hand-numbered copy that is, apparently, made by the publisher per-order. Mine is #49. Does anyone know how many they made? How much this would go for? Any information? I looked on the internet and couldn't find much of anything on the net aside from info about the paperback copies.
Thank you so much for you help...

EmberLeo

18:19 / 03.11.08

Out of curiosity, I dug around. The only mention I could find that included a price put the special edition leather-bound hardcover at 50$ but it didn't mention numbering of any kind, nor how many there are.

Perhaps you can find a website whereby you could email the author and ask? Or call the publisher. *shrugs*

--Ember--

totep

21:48 / 03.11.08

Thanks! I didn't think of contacting the publisher...I guess I...well, long weekend anyhow. I'll do just that! If $50 is the going rate I got a pretty good deal for $9, although it isn't something I'm that interested in, so...
Again, thanks!

trouble at bill

13:11 / 04.11.08

Or you might try feigning ignorance and asking in as many occult bookstores as possible how much they would charge a regular customer for such a thing. That may well be an inflated price, as they have margins to worry about, but it'll give you a figure to work with for when you try and e-bay it or whatever. Here in the UK there is a tiny number of occult bookstores like London's Treadwells which specialise in rare and out of print editions, I'm sure there are similar places in the states.

EmberLeo

07:25 / 05.11.08

Everything else I found said roughly 9$, but that seemed always to refer to the paperback. Perhaps the person you bought it from priced it based on the regular edition?

*shrugs* Not that it matters. You can always put it up on EBay for any bottom price you please. If nobody bids, drop the starter price and try again, eh?

--Ember--

Blue Eyes Not Innocent

05:32 / 15.11.08

So, I hadn't heard of Leilah Wendell before this thread, actually; what's her(or his) gig, anyway?

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:27 / 15.11.08

I believe that two dollars means a snack to him, but it means a big deal to you. HtH.

totep

18:39 / 15.11.08

I've been too busy to find out any more info on this, but rest assured I'll inform you Barbelith sleuths as soon as I hear from the publisher.
Leilah Wendell is a Necrophiliac. Straight up and for real. She has a couple of books published (this one and 'The Book of Azrael' or something) and she writes a zine about it. She was featured in the Adam Parfrey book Apocalypse Culture II and is good friends with Karen Greenlee - another necrophiliac who was featured in the first Apocalypse Culture book.
Yeah.