Item #68401 Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. Aleister. Edited CROWLEY, Vere Chappell., Fredrik Soderberg., Fredrik Soderberg, From the David Tibet collection.

Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden.

Stockholm: EDDA, 2013. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 206pp. Pink cloth gilt-lettered on spine, gilt-stamped facsimile of Crowley's signature on front board. B/w frontis, color plates, ribbon page marker. One of a limited hand-numbered edition of 418 copies of this new edition of perhaps the most obscene of Crowley's pornographic works. This copy from the library of British artist, writer and musician DAVID TIBET (founder of the music group Current 93) with his OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE opposite the half-title page. From the publisher: "While at his Scottish retreat Boleskine in 1903, Aleister Crowley decided to amuse his wife, Rose, and their friends by writing a pornographic tale – one new section each day. He concocted a tale that managed to be marvelously creative and utterly repugnant at the same time and he spared no taboo or perversion which figure prominently throughout the text. The protagonist is no less than an Archbishop. The Cleric having been a popular character in pornography for centuries, and a particular favorite and victim of Crowley's wit. Many contemporary figures were also made objects of satire, although they were also rendered “nameless” by the use of elision, or omitted letters. The overall result is more absurd than obscene, owing more to Cervantes, Rabelais, Sade and Apollinaire than to the run-of-the-mill pulp pornography of the time. Writing a chapter a day, in the evenings Crowley read it aloud to the audience assembled in the household, with the exception of his Aunt Annie. Reportedly this had the intended effect of amusing Rose, and doubtless the rest of the party, especially since some of them, and old friends from Paris, were featured characters, even old Aunt Annie ended up having a role in the tale." A few light marks to lower page edge - else appears "as new" - thus book & dust jacket in near Fine condition. (Dust jacket mylar protected.). Item #68401
ISBN: 9789197953445

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