In Residence. The Don's Guide to Cambridge.
Cambridge: Elijah Johnson, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 94pp. + 20pp. adverts, Original pale blue wrappers with darker blue title etc. to front wrapper. A collection of Crowley's early poetry, published in the same years as Crowley received "The Book of the Law." The poems are mostly reprinted from magazines like 'Granta,' 'Cambridge Magazine,' 'Cantab,' etc. though some were previously unpublished. It includes twenty pages of extremely interesting, humorous, and informative advertisements for works by Crowley at the rear, as well as the detachable entry form for a competition which Crowley held for the best essay to be written on his own works. This was of course the competition won by another "Cambridge man," J. F. C. Fuller (later Major-General John Frederick Charles Fuller CB CBE DSO, 1878 – 1966) whose essay was, according to common lore, the only entry. This may well have been true, although contrary to another popular belief Fuller did in fact receive the promised hundred pound prize from Crowley. From the library of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper (1942-2011) with his small book-label tipped in at the rear. Spine and outer margins are darkened & discoloured, wrappers lightly foxed, edges of wrappers chafed with a few light chips & creases, upper end of spine lightly chipped with a short closed tear at front hinge, light creasing to spine, top edge darkened, a bit foxing to page edges and first & last leaves, most pages uncut and thus bright and unmarked internally. Bishop-Culpeper Overall a clean, unread VG copy. Item #39440
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