Item #67174 The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King; Translated into English Tongue by a Dead Hand and Adorned with Divers Other Matters Germane Delightful to the Wise. Aleister - Edited CROWLEY, Introduced and, Commentary by, Aleister - Edited CROWLEY, Introduced.
The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King; Translated into English Tongue by a Dead Hand and Adorned with Divers Other Matters Germane Delightful to the Wise

The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King; Translated into English Tongue by a Dead Hand and Adorned with Divers Other Matters Germane Delightful to the Wise

New York, NY: Magickal Childe Publishing, 1989. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Quarto. x + 66pp (+ viii pp of adverts). Black faux leather with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, frontispiece. The famous grimoire of talismanic magic, the Lemegeton of Solomon. Crowley first published his edition of the book at Boleskine in 1904, under the title 'The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King' in an edition of only 200 copies using translations which had been prepared by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, his former mentor in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This edition was published by Herman Slater (1938 – 1992), author, editor, publisher, witch, and proprietor of the legendary Magickal Childe Book Store of New York, under his Magickal Childe imprint. 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. Hint of bruising to top corners, otherwise appears like new - thus a tight, clean near Fine copy (no dust jacket issued). Item #67174
ISBN: 0939708299

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