777 Revised; Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mysticae Viae Explicandae, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientiae Summae. A Reprint of 777 with Much Additional Matter by the Late Aleister Crowley
London: The Neptune Press, 1955. First Edition thus. Hardcover. xxviii + 156pp. Demy Octavo. White parchment spine with gilt-decorated buckram boards. Top edge gold. Tables & hexagrams. Edition limited to 1100 copies (There was also a vellum-bound edition of 12 copies and a full morocco edition of 7 copies). A reprint of Crowley's Qabalistic masterwork, with much additional material. Crowley's former student and follower Gerald Yorke had worked on the revised edition of this Qabalistic masterwork in the 1920s, but was unable to take it to press at the time. He finally published it in collaboration with Crowley's German-American student and occult heir Karl Germer in 1955. From the collection of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper with his book-label tipped in at the front. Boards lightly rubbed and a little discolored (not as badly as the photograph accompanying this listing suggests!), a few light marks to parchment spine, page edges darkened, endpapers unevenly browned. Scattered relatively neat underlining in the text and numerals and a few annotations in the Kabbalistic tables (NOT by Culpeper). Otherwise a tight, generally clean better than VG copy (issued without dust jacket). Item #39449
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