The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King; Translated into English Tongue by a Dead Hand and Adorned with Divers Other Matters Germane Delightful to the Wise.
London: The Equinox Ltd., 1976. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, x + 66pp. Black cloth with red title, etc. to spine and front board. B&W diagrams, ribbon page markers. The famous grimoire of talismanic magic, the Lemegeton of Solomon. Crowley first published his edition of the book at Boleskine in 1904, in an edition of only 200 copies using translations which had been prepared by S. L. MacGregor Mathers, his former mentor in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This edition (a facsimile with minor corrections) was published by "The Equinox (Booksellers and Publishers) Ltd." - the sadly short-lived venture by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin which briefly brought a frisson of excitement to the gentlefolk of Kensington, London, in the mid-1970s. Merest hint of bruising to the corners of the boards, small abrasion - no bigger than a finger-nail - at the top of the front free endpaper (our guess is a small owner's name has been erased). Overall a bright, clean, near-Fine copy in near-Fine dust jacket. (Dust jacket has just two tiny, barely visible chips to the edges. Now protected by removable mylar cover.) Large book, additional shipping and insurance to that automatically quoted will apply, the exact amount dependent upon the destination. Item #74501
Price: $475.00