Hymn to Pan.
USA: 100th Monkey Press, 2011. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). 44pp. Hand bound: green textured-patterned paper card covers secured with leather cord ties, slip on paper title label. Printed endpapers. Text in red and black on heavy acid-free paper. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Included are all the "bonus" inserts that accompanied this edition: a themed bookplate, a bookmark, and a folded facsimile of the broadsheet edition of "Hymn to Pan" the printed by the Renshaw Press for the Argus Bookshop in Chicago in 1919. "The Hymn to Pan" was originally written in Moscow in 1913 and Crowley intended to publish it in his ill-fated "The Giant's Thumb" but instead it did not go to print until 1919 when it was included in The Equinox Volume III No.1 ('The Blue Equinox'). Later that year it had its first separate publication, in an edition of 1000 copies by Ben Abramson (1883-1968), proprietor of the Argus Bookshop and has been issued variously since. This reprint is the first of a series of reissues of Crowley's works by the 100th Monkey Press. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discrete book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. Harper is well-known as the bibliographer of Austin Osman Spare, for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. The label can easily be removed without affecting the page, although it would be a shame not to preserve this record of the book's provenance. All in Fine condition. Item #64838
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