Item #70912 The Soul of the Desert. Aleister CROWLEY.
The Soul of the Desert.
The Soul of the Desert.
The Soul of the Desert.

The Soul of the Desert.

Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo, 36 pages (printed on rectos only). Original cream coloured grained cloth (faux leather) with gilt titling on spine and front cover. A most unusual issue - the book is typically found bound in brown cloth, we have never seen one in a cream binding thus. The binding is obviously original, and it is likely that it was a trial binding, perhaps for a "deluxe edition", that never came to fruition. 'Written at Tozeur 17 March 1914,' the poem it was first published in an issue of "The Occult Review" of the same year. This edition, published Thelema Publications, the company run by Helen Parsons-Smith, ex-wife of Jack Parsons and long time member of Agape Lodge of the OTO, is its first separate publication. 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. Binding a little rubbed and darkened, internally bright tight and clean. A VG+ copy of an unusual, possibly unique, issue. (no dustjacket - almost certainly none issued). Item #70912
ISBN: 0913576085

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