CROWLEY, Aleister.

The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1 [ The Blue Equinox ].

York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1992. Limited Edition Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 440pp. Original blue cloth decorated in bronze and gilt to replicate the binding of the 1919 First Edition, color frontis. A facsimile reprint of Crowley's contentious 1919 publication. This edition limited to 1000 copies. Crowley was the editor and principal author of most of the "The Equinox" series, which contained a variety of poetry, fiction, and reviews - generally with esoteric themes - alongside a number of articles of occult instruction. The "Blue Equinox" – as this number became known - was arguably the last of the "real" Equinoxes to be published during Crowley's lifetime. He continued to use the volume and number designations of the Equinox series, but for what were effectively separate monographs, quite different in most respects to the original journals. This volume includes five black and white photographic portraits, as well as color reproductions of Crowley's painting "May Morn," the color portrait of him by Leon Engers Kennedy and Crowley's famous sketch of "Lam." The text comprises a number of magical books ("Libers") amongst which Liber LXV, Crowley's Gnostic Catholic Mass, the publication of which caused considerable outcry, and calls for the "Blue Equinox" to be banned, as well as providing inspiration to James Branch Cabell who adapted part of it for use in his equally-contentious, but best-selling novel, "Jurgen." Blavatsky's "The Voice of Silence" with Crowley's commentary to it are appended as a "special supplement" and other texts include Crowley's "Hymn to Pan," various book reviews, etc. etc. Old "new" stock. This volume, and a number of others we are listing, are actually brand new copies purchased by us from the stock of a retired specialist dealer. Old "new" stock. This volume, and a number of others we are listing, are actually brand new copies purchased by us from the stock of a retired specialist dealer. Hint of light shelf-wear, but otherwise near Fine in VG example of the publisher's mylar dust jacket. Item #59218
ISBN: 0877282102

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