Item #61207 Liber Aleph The Book of Wisdom or Folly; in the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777 being the Equinox Volume III No. vi. Aleister. "Master Therion" CROWLEY.
Liber Aleph The Book of Wisdom or Folly; in the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777 being the Equinox Volume III No. vi
Liber Aleph The Book of Wisdom or Folly; in the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777 being the Equinox Volume III No. vi

Liber Aleph The Book of Wisdom or Folly; in the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777 being the Equinox Volume III No. vi

California: Thelema Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xii + 220 pp. Original red textured fabricoid with gilt lettering to spine. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of Crowley, errata slip facing p. xii. The first edition of this important work, published by Karl Germer - Crowley's chief disciple and successor as head of the O.T.O. Dust jacket art by Frieda Harris, "artist executant" of Crowley's Thoth tarot deck. In his 'Introduction' Germer declares the book to be ".. one of the masterworks of the late Aleister Crowley ... one of ... [his] greatest and deepest books, into which he put his very blood." He then quotes Crowley as writing that "Liber Aleph, the Book of Wisdom or Folly," was intended to express the heart of my doctrine in the most deep and delicate dimensions. It is the most tense and intense book I have ever composed." Top corners lightly bumped, causing a hint of a ripple to the extreme top edge of some pages, and a bump to the top edge of the rear board. Some flecking to the cloth caused by the dust jacket adhering to it (a very common problem with this particular volume) but the cloth is still cleaner and brighter than most copies seen. Light uneven browning to endpapers, some darkening to inner margins of first few leaves. Still overall a tight, better-than-VG copy in near-VG dust jacket. (Dust jacket lightly rubbed, a little chafed at the head and tail of the spine, one chip to bottom edge of front panel and a few tears at flap fold-overs. Small snag in lower spine. Now protected by removable mylar sleeve). Item #61207

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