London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1989. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto. Dark blue boards with gilt decorated covers, gilt title, tipped in color plates. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. The first collected edition of a series of ten essays - 'The Carfax Monographs' - which were originally published by Grant..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd., 2003. First edition, Limited. Hardcover. Octavo. 216pp. Bound in fine black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, color frontis. Edition of 1000 copies - 906 were cloth bound (as this copy) and 94 of which were used for a special edition. Color frontispiece after a painting..... More
London: Skoob Books, 1994. Second Edition [Corrected]. Hardcover. Octavo. viii (iv) + 244pp. Black cloth with silver titling to spine. B&w iIlustrations, glossary, bibliography & index. The corrected second edition of "Cults of the Shadow", and from the copyright page: "Errata: This volume is reprinted from the 1975 first edition..... More
London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1991. First corrected Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii+ 244pp. Black cloth with silver title, etc. to spine, silver star to upper board, illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. First published in 1972, "The Magical Revival" was the first book in what became Grant's first "Typhonian Trilogy," in which..... More
London: Starfire Publishing Ltd, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 158 pp. Black cloth with gilt title etc. to spine. color frontis. 'Standard Edition.' limited to 919 copies thus (there was also a deluxe edition of 81 numbered and signed copies). This copy signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant on the..... More
London: Starfire Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxxviii + 604pp. First edition limited to 1000 copies (of which 97 copies were used for an 'edition deluxe'). This 'standard' or 'trade' edition bound in black Wibalin cloth. Unusually this copy is SIGNED by both Kenneth and Steffi Grant on..... 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
Lake Worth FL: Ibis Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Black cloth with gilt titling, b&w illustrations. Glossary, bibliography, appendixes. SIGNED by the author at the time of publication by way of a Weiser Antiquarian Books bookplate affixed to the front blank. "In 1904, The Book of the Law..... 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
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. Liber Worth Fifteen Cents. The REAL Gnostic Catholic..... More
USA: Bookvika Publishing, ND. POD. Softcover. Quarto 76pp. Glossy wrappers, A4 sized, POD production quality. A collection of articles that are all occult related but appear to be somewhat randomly selected - and which have been taken (verbatim) from Wikipedia and published as a group. Contents - among others -..... 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. O.T.O., 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. viii + 166pp. B/w frontis. & illustrations. The first edition - of which only 250 copies were printed. This copy warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Richard Kaczynski on the title-page to Clive Harper. In this work Kaczynski, author..... 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
New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, Inc, 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 210pp, + vii page photo insert. Black cloth decorated in blind on upper board gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations, index. The first American edition of Francis King's entertaining biographical portrait of Aleister Crowley. The author Francis..... 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.), 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
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
New York: Ballantine, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Pocket paperback. 140pp (+ 4pp. adverts). Illustrated covers. A Ballantine paperback original. A 'trash paperback' biography of Crowley, who, according to the cover: "Practiced Sex Magic and Worshiped Satan - Founded a religion based on drugs and debauchery - branded his wives and..... 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
