Item #70855 Liber Aleph Vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly. In the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777. Being the Equinox Volume III Number VI. Aleister CROWLEY.

Liber Aleph Vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly. In the Form of an Epistle of 666 The Great Wild Beast to his Son 777. Being the Equinox Volume III Number VI.

San Francisco, CA: [ OTO ] Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 11 x 8.5 inches), (xiv) + 220pp + ipp editorial comment. Flexible clear plastic front cover sheet over grey black lettered card cover, dark blue vinyl rear cover, cover sheets secured together with a dark blue 2 part plastic back strip. Hand-colored endsheets. An uncommon edition of this quirky magical / philosophical masterpiece by Crowley published by the well-known OTO figure Ebony Anpu and his co-publisher Lotte Lieb (Sr Iahan) under the Stellar Visions imprint. This basically appears to be a neatly produced facsimile of the first edition, as published by Karl Germer in 1962, but with altered title-page etc. Thus the page after the first title page has a series of quotes from the Grady McMurtry versus the Marcelo Motta court case of 1985 on the recto, and a blank verso, whilst the final leaf has a statement about the O.T.O.. 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 few signs of light use and handling, but overall a tight, unmarked VG+ copy. Obviously the print-run was small as copies are seldom seen. Item #70855

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