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The Manas Press was a publishing house operated by Claude Bragdon, a prominent member of the American Theosophical Society. It was located in Rochester, New York.

These are some of the titles produced:

Bragdon, Claude Fayette. The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture. 1910. 109 p. Available at Internet Archive, Internet Archive, Hathitrust, Google Books, and Google Books.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. Episodes from an Unwritten History. In 1910, an enlarged second edition was published.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. Man the Square: a Higher Space Parable. 1912. 34p.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette and Eugenie Julier Macaulay Bragdon. Oracle. 1921. 64 p. Portrait in frontispiece. Available at Internet Archive. Bragdon collected messages that had been received by his deceased wife Eugenie via automatic writing. Some are epigrammatic personal messages, and others are prophetic.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. A Primer of Higher Space (the Fourth Dimension). 1913. 78 p. Illustrated. Available at Internet Archive.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. Projective Ornament. 1915. 78 p. Illustrated.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. Self Education: An Address Given Before the Boston Architectural Club April the third 1909. 1910. 16 p. Available at Internet Archive.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. The Small Old Path. 1914. 2nd edition. available at Internet Archive.
Bragdon, Claude Fayette. Theosophy and the Theosophical Society. 1909

Crapsey, Adelaide. Verse. 95 p. Available at Google Books and Hathitrust. Very nice versions are at Internet Archive, and another Internet Archive.

Ouspensky, P. D. [Uspemskii Petr Dem’ianovich]. Tertium Organum. 1920. 344 p. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Besaraboff and Claude Bragdon, with introduction by Bragdon. Subtitle: “(the Third Organ of Thought) a Key to the Enigmas of the World". Available at Internet Archive and Google Books.

Powys, John Cowper, and Llewelyn Powys. Confessions of Two Brothers. 1916. 265 p. Available at Open Library.

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 * Ouspensky, P. D. [Uspemskii Petr Dem’ianovich]. '''''Tertium Organum'''''. 1920. 344 p. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Besaraboff and Claude Bragdon, with introduction by Bragdon. Subtitle: “(the Third Organ of Thought) a Key to the Enigmas of the World". Available at [http://www.archive.org/details/tertiumorganumth00uspe Internet Archive] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=N74wAAAAYAAJ Google Books].
-* Powys, John Cowper, and Llewelyn Powys. '''''Confessions of  Two Brothers'''''. 1916. 265 p.
+* Powys, John Cowper, and Llewelyn Powys. '''''Confessions of  Two Brothers'''''. 1916. 265 p. Available at [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL104539W/Confessions_of_two_brothers_John_Cowper_Powys_and_Llewellyn_Powys Open Library].
 * Sprague, Alice. '''''My Two Gardens'''''. 1909. 49 p.