The Lost Lamen of Telepylus: the Icon of Thelema; Saturday 19th June - Saturday 17th July, 2010
London: Atlantis Bookshop, 2010. First Edition, Signed. Softcover. Octavo. not paginated [ 14pp]. Cream stapled wrappers illustrated in colour and lettered in black, b&w illustration. This copy signed by Gary Dickinson at the close of his Introduction and has loosely enclosed a limitation slip indicating it to be one of only five SIGNED copies of this booklet expressly for overseas members of Clive Harper's "Fine Madness Society". A neatly produced illustrated booklet giving the text of a talk entitled "The Lost Lamen of Telepylus: the Icon of Thelema" which includes a study of the "memorial pillar" on one of the walls of the "Chambre des Cauchemars" in Crowley's Abbey of Thelema at Cefalua. The author, Gary W. Dickinson (who also writes under the pseudonym William De Fancourt), is a London orientalist and occult researcher, artist and stele-maker extraordinaire, whose publications range from studies of Chinese Court Dress in specialised asiatic journals, to investigations of Crowley's Chinese travels and the mysterious figure Lam (respectively) in the occult journals "Fenris Wolf" and the "AMeTh Lodge Journal". The text and lecture were done to accompany an exhibition and sale of artwork focussed "the lost lamen" that was held in the Atlantis Bookshop in the preceding month. Also included is an A4 leaflet from the Atlantis Bookshop detailing artworks displayed in the exhibition. 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. Fine condition. Item #67124
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