London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2003. First edition. Edition Deluxe. Hardcover. Octavo. 158 pp. Bound in quarter black goatskin with hand-made marbled gilt papered boards, gilt title etc. to spine, red endpages, color frontis. The "Edition Deluxe" limited to 81 hand-numbered copies signed by both Kenneth and Steffi Grant on the..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2013. New, Enhanced Edition, Deluxe. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 252pp. Black quarter leather over marbled-paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Printed endpapers, b&w and colour photos, & illustrations, extensive glossary & index. Dust jacket and frontispiece design by Steffi Grant. Custom cloth slipcase. The Deluxe issue..... More
Sydney: House 418 Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. Approx. 238 pages. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Edition limited to 200 copies (there were also 14 special numbered and inscribed subscriber issues and an "archival release" of 11 signed and hand-illustrated issues). A beautifully produced and illustrated journal created by members..... More
New York: Pearson's Magazine, 1921. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Eccentrically paginated ( 201- 244p + iv adverts ). Original wrappers. A journal edited by Frank Harris, a long term associate and friend of Aleister Crowley's, who contributed to a number of other issues of "Pearsons." [NB There are no Crowley..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1999. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Large octavo, 216 pp, Glossy printed wrappers. A biography of Aleister Crowley. Although largely overshadowed by the biographies of Kaczynski and Sutin, Hutchinson's work is not without its merits, particularly when it comes to Crowley's early years, and for its more..... More
Berkeley, CA: The Corneliuses, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 8 ½ x 11inches, [16pp] Quarto sheets reproduced from computer generated typesecript, bound in office-report style plastic covers with (original) tape spine. This edition limited to 56 copies, SIGNED and numbered by the author. A wicked parody of Crowley's Gnostic Catholic Mass..... More
[Brighton]: NP, ND ( circa 1946 ). ND. A 5 1/4" x 3 1/4" postcard with a black and white reproduction of the 1945 portrait of Crowley by Augustus John, a friendly acquaintance of Crowley's for over thirty years. He drew a number of portraits of the Beast, including one..... More
London: Ore Publications, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 24pp. Original printed stapled wrappers. Tipped-in frontis portrait. Includes a letter from Powys to Hughes with a brief note about meeting Crowley at a Foyle's Literary Luncheon. From the library of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper, with his book..... More
Royal Oak, MI: Blue Equinox Oasis, OTO, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 264pp. Illustrated covers. Appendixes. Comprises three extensive groups of source material that were not included in either edition of the author's biography of Aleister Crowley, "Perdurabo" (although they are of course quoted from and referenced). They cover the..... More
NP [ Pittsburgh, PA ]: Privately Published [ G. M. Kelly ], 1984. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), vi + 93pp + ipp bibliography, 10 b&w plates of tarot-like designs by Kelly. "Velobound" photocopied pages: Flexible black plastic covers, secured together with a...... More
London: Arrow Books, 1987. Reprint [ First Arrow Edition ]. Softcover. Small octavo. 210pp, ivpp adverts, eight page b&w photo insert at center. A softcover reprint of Francis King's entertaining biographical portrait of Aleister Crowley. Covers rubbed, worn and lightly creased, light bruising & creasing to spine ends & corners..... More
London: William Rider & Son, 1929. Fourth Revised Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 158pp. Original green cloth with spine and front board. B/w frontis. Aleister Crowley included "Science and the Infinite" in the Curriculum of his A.'. A.'., in Section I of the "General Reading" list: "Books for Serious Study": where..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 2001. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. (ii +) 504pp. + xipp. adverts. Yellow card covers lettered and illustrated in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. Handwritten postcard from the editor, Peter..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 480pp. Printed blue card covers lettered in black, b&w illustrations.GERMAN / ENGLISH texts. Handwritten postcard from the editor, Peter Koenig, to Clive Harper, loosely inserted. A collection of documents, letters, photographs, etc. relating to Crowley, the O.T.O. and..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 27pp. + i pp. advert. Pink card covers lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. The first edition of this highly controversial and somewhat..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 2001. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. (ii +) 504pp. + xipp. adverts. Yellow card covers lettered and illustrated in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount inEnglish [mostly quoted documents]. A much revised and expanded version (this..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 125pp + xxvii pp. Blue card covers lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. A collection of documents and commentary relating to the Ordo..... More
New York: Tarcher / Penguin, 2014. Second Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 400pp. From the publisher: "This definitive work on the occult’s “great Beast” traces the arc of his controversial life and influence on rock-and-roll giants, from the Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath. When Aleister Crowley died in 1947..... More
London, England: Herbert & Daniel, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover, Small Octavo [ 7 x 4 1/2 inches]. (viii) + 346 + (iv)pp. Buff coloured cloth boards with decorations and gilt titling. Printed on quality mould-made paper. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Decorated endpapers. Part of title-page and running titles..... More
Glendale CA: The Official Journal of Blue Horizon Oasis, Ordo Templi Orientis, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Three issues. Quarto. (8.25 x 11. inches). Magazine format - illustrated stapled wrappers. Three consecutive issues of this quarterly Thelemic periodical published by Blue Horizon Oasis O.T.O. of Glendale CA. Each issues includes essays..... More
Thame, Oxford: Mandrake Press Limited, ( ca. 1990 ). The collection comprises quarto size double sided colour flyers for "The Rites of Eleusis" and "Now for Reality," a folding laminated prospectus for "Now for Reality," and "The Forbidden Lecture" a colour proof-pull of the dust jacket for " "The Forbidden..... More
Canada: Privately printed, 1988. Pirated Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 140pp (+ 4pp. adverts). Plain white covers lettered in black on upper cover, black cloth tape spine over binding stapled. Appears to be a pirated copy of the 1951 Ballantine paperback original - reproducing the original Ballantine covers, preliminaries and end matter..... More
Thame, England: Mandrake Press Ltd, 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 172pp. Original black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. B&W Ills. in text. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Short memoirs of seven of the author's literary friends: Oscar Wilde. Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T. F...... More
York Beach, Maine USA: Samuel Weiser Publishing, Inc., 1995. First Edition Thus, enlarged & expanded. "Illustrated Second Edition" Softcover. Small quarto. xxvi + 134pp. Beige covers with decorative boarder comprised of illustrations of demons. B&w illustrations and frontis, appendix charts and tables. The first impression of an important edition of..... More
Bath: Agapé, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Small Octavo. 40pp.+ 4 A4 sheets attached at rear inside cover (as issued). Original printed wrappers. The sixth issue (out of a total of seven published) of Agapé, an independent but Thelemically-inclined occult journal from England in the 1970s. This issue includes a series..... More
