Item #67103 8 Lectures on Yoga [ Eight Lectures on Yoga ]. Aleister CROWLEY.

8 Lectures on Yoga [ Eight Lectures on Yoga ].

San Francisco, CA: [ OTO ] Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), 84pp (+ iipp. statement & adverts). "Velobound": Flexible clear plastic front cover over printed paper cover sheet, dark blue plastic rear cover, secured together with a blue plastic back strip. Hand-colored endsheets. B&w diagrams. An uncommon edition of "Eight Lectures on Yoga" published by the well-known OTO figure Ebony Anpu and his co-publisher Lotte Lieb (Sr Iahan) under the Stellar Visions imprint. Crowley's "Eight Lectures on Yoga" is widely regarded as one of his best works, and as one of the wittiest and most insightful studies of the subject ever written by a Westerner. The verso of the title page has a series of quotes from the Grady McMurtry versus the Marcelo Motta court case of 1985, whilst the final leaf has a statement about the O.T.O. on the recto. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet 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. A little darkening to edges of the wrappers, otherwise a tight, unmarked VG+ copy. Item #67103

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