The Book of Thoth.
UK / Newburyport MA: Hell Fire Club / Red Wheel Weiser, ND [ 2017 ]. First Edition THUS [ Deluxe, limited edition ]. Hardcover. Small quarto. xii + 288pp. Black leather spine with gilt lettering and device, over marbled papered boards with gilt illustrations, marbled endpapers. The Hellfire Club "edition." The book is basically the text block of the 2017 Red Wheel / Weiser 60th anniversary edition of "The Book of Thoth" in a custom Hell Fire club binding. A limitation label affixed to the second blank, indicates that this Hellfire Club issue was limited to 156 hand numbered copies, this being copy no. 61. The text of the Weiser edition is largely a facsimile of the 1944 OTO first edition, digitally restored, printed on a heavy, coated stock, and featuring revised color plates and black and white illustrations of the Thoth Tarot based on new photography of the original art, courtesy of the O.T.O. and The Warburg Institute. A colour Hell Fire Club prospectus advertising the book loosely inserted. 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. "As new" thus in Fine condition. Item #70918
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