Item #59828 The Rites of Eleusis. Explanatory Keith Richmond, Terence DuQuesne.

The Rites of Eleusis.

Thame, England: Mandrake Press, Ltd., 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 304pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Black and white frontis, and photo plates, line drawings by Dwina Murphy-Gibb. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. This copy SIGNED by Keith Richmond on the title page. The first major separate study of Crowley's "Rites of Eleusis." Includes the full texts of Crowley's Rites (as performed at Caxton Hall), a 40pp historical Introduction by Richmond, and essays: "The Eleusinian Mysteries" and "Aleister Crowley and 'The Rites of Eleusis'" by Terence DuQuesne, etc. Superb plates of Leila Waddell and others. Endpapers and edges a little toned, very slight offset from frontis-portrait onto title-page, hint of rubbing to lower edge of boards, otherwise a tight clean VG+ copy in VG + dust jacket (Dust jacket panels and edges lightly rubbed, a few light creases). Item #59828
ISBN: 1872736025

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