The Diary of a Drug Fiend.
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 368pp. White papered boards lettered in red on spine. A reprint of Crowley's famous novel of addiction, magick and redemption. This edition includes a new Foreword by Leslie Shepard (1917-2004), a writer, editor and film-maker, who was commissioned by University Books to edit and write new Introductions and Forewords for a number of books on magic, mysticism and mythology in the 1960s and 1970s. Boards quite discolored in patches, light bumping and rubbing to spine ends & corners, Some minor glue residue from removal of a bookplate on the front free endpaper, pages lightly toned, Still, a solid, unmarked VG copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket panels a bit rubbed and darkened, a few short tears, mild chafing to edges, price-clipped. Now protected by removable mylar sleeve.). Item #71037
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