The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley. Tunisia, 1923.
Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 252pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, purple endpages, appendixes, index. The texts of Crowley's 1923 diaries, edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Skinner. "These diaries were written by Aleister Crowley after his expulsion by Mussolini from his abbey of Thelema in Cefalu in Sicily. The records consolidate the work which Crowley initiated in Cefalu and explore more deeply the various techniques of cabbalistic and sexual magic as well as his contact with the Arab magic of North Africa where he spent some years. As an accurate and scientific record of consistent and well-documented magical practice there is little to equal Crowley's diaries, they are in fact the raw data from which, as Crowley had hoped, the science of magic will rise from the art which it has so long been." 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. Very light shelf rubbing to edges and points, pages lightly browned else a tight, bright & unmarked VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (Dust jacket chafed and creased at all extremities, some general wear, not clipped. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #65356
ISBN: 0859780228
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