The Tao Teh King. Liber CLVII, A New Translation; The Equinox ..... Volume III, No. VIII.
Dublin, California: Thelema Publications, 1976. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Not paginated [Approximately 100pp.] Original cream colored thick woven cloth, with gilt titling to spine and front board. Regular edition (there was also a deluxe edition, limited to 100 specially-bound numbered copies). Errata slip loosely inserted.
Typescripts of Crowley's version of this Chinese classic circulated amongst his students, but the work remained unpublished until 1976. Then, Helen Parsons Smith (1910 - 2003), ex-wife of Jack Parsons, widow of W. T. Smith, and long time member of Agape Lodge of the OTO, produced this edition under her Thelema publications imprint (Stephen Skinner's Askin Publishers in England produced a separate edition almost simultaneously). Some spots of pale flecking (foxing) to the cloth - as common with this edition - otherwise a tight, bright, near-Fine copy. (No dust jacket issued with this edition). Item #73800
ISBN: 0913576069
Price: $350.00



