The International Vol. XI No.11 - November 1917.
New York: The International Monthly, November 1917. First Edition. Soft cover. Quarto. 32pp. (pages numbered 321 – 352) Original pictorial wrappers. B&W Illustrations. Extremely scarce. "The International" was a pro-German newsmagazine of the First World War. Crowley was given the position of Contributing Editor, and took the "contributing" part very seriously, providing most of the material published in them himself, under his own name, a variety of pseudonyms, and sometime anonymously. This issue includes the following contributions by Crowley: "Humanity First" (an essay) by Aleister Crowley; The Scrutinies of Simon Iff. No. 3. Outside the Bank's Routine by Edward Kelly, How Horoscopes are Faked by Cor Scorpionis; "Sekhet" by Adam D'as; "The Revival of Magick" by The Master Therion; "The Hearth" by Mark Wells; "The Rake's Progress" by A.C.; "How Horoscopes Are Faked" by Cor Scorpionis; and "The Professor and the Plutocrat" by S. J. Mill. There are also several other named pieces which may or may not be Crowley pseudonyms, as well as essays by Crowley associates George Sylvester Viereck and Louis U. Wilkinson and a translation of a poem by Baudelaire (translator most likely Crowley). This issue also has several advertisements for works by Crowley. Stunning cover art by Helen Woljeska, a somewhat Dorothy Parkerish figure: who, with the likes of Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, and Djuna Barnes contributed to the H.L. Mencken-edited magazine "The Smart Set." She also clearly knew Crowley, as she was one of the few regular contributors (apart from Crowley himself) to "The International" when it was under his editorship. Her contributions included artwork, prose poems, translations, plays and a short fictional piece. Narrow darkened strip down inner margin of front cover, a hint of fraying to bottom edge of wrappers, still a clean, V+ copy of a very scarce periodical. Item #61759
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