The Great Beast. The Life of Aleister Crowley.
London: Rider & Co., 1952. First edition - Third Impression. Hardcover. Large octavo. 316pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, frontis, illustrations. An early edition of Symond's biography of Crowley, the book which introduced the children of the Fifties and Sixties to the Great Beast. Early printings like this include, as an appendix, Gerald Yorke's ground-breaking Bibliography of Crowley. This copy from the library of British artist, writer and musician DAVID TIBET (founder of the music group Current 93) with his OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE on the half title page. Light overall shelf rubbing with a little chafing to the corners and spine ends, lower corners bumped, page edges, end papers and first and last leaves are a bit darkened and foxed (as common), pages a lightly toned but clean and unmarked. very faintly musty. A tight, unmarked VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #68404
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