Weiser Books A BRIEF HISTORY eiser Books was born in the back of the began to publish original manuscripts from new Samuel Weiser Bookstore in 1957 in New authors, all of whom were teachers or practitioners WYork City. It was an unplanned publishing passionate about their specific area, whether that be venture started by Donald Weiser and his father Samuel astral travel, reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhist medicine, to meet demand for titles customers had an interest in. or Qabalistic Tarot. The result was Weiser Books being Sam had started the bookstore regarded worldwide as the in 1926 on fashionable Book premier publisher of occult Row on Fourth Avenue in New and esoterica. York City. While a general used As the business grew, bookstore, Weiser’s increasingly Weiser began to distribute specialized in esoteric material, books for other publishers including books on the Occult and by the 1980s, Donald had and Eastern Philosophy. moved the publishing business By the late 1950s and from their cramped Manhattan with the coming of the offices to York Beach Maine. 1960s counter-culture, more In 2000, the publishing and and more people became distribution business was interested in metaphysics sold to a partnership group and esoteric topics. Weiser headed by Jan Johnson and expanded from selling used Michael Kerber, both long- books to publishing them, first time publishing professionals. by reprinting occult classics Today, Weiser Books is a distinct by such authors as Eliphas imprint under the Red Wheel/ Levi and A.E. Waite as well as Weiser umbrella. Photo credit: Don Snyder producing exclusive editions Sixty years on, Weiser of the works of Aleister Crowley including the 1969 maintains its well-earned reputation for publishing edition of The Book of Thoth. With Donald heading the books of the highest quality and for keeping them in publishing business Weiser began to license rights print to be discovered by new generations of seekers. from British and European publishers for the works From our offices in Newburyport, MA, we continue of Dion Fortune, Vera Stanley Alder, Lama Anagarika to publish titles across the entire spectrum of occult, Govinda, D. T. Suzuki, Jungian astrologer Liz Greene, esoteric, and speculative subjects—books that shape and many others. As Weiser’s backlist expanded, they minds, feed souls, and challenge conventional thinking. 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