Item #66347 The Soul of the Desert. Aleister CROWLEY.
The Soul of the Desert.

The Soul of the Desert.

Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small square octavo. 36 pages (printed on recto only). Brown cloth with gilt title on spine and front cover. A poem 'Written at Tozeur 17 March 1914,' it was first published in an issue of the Occult Review of the same year. This edition, published by Thelema Publications, the company run by Helen Parsons-Smith (ex-wife of Jack Parsons and W. T. Smith and long time member of Agape Lodge of the OTO,) is its first separate publication. This copy from the collection of Crowley researcher and collector Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper, with his book label on the front pastedown. Top edge darkened and dusty otherwise a bright Fine copy. In the somewhat creased glassine wrapper in which it was sent out (no dust jacket as such issued). Item #66347
ISBN: 0913576085

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