The Star in the West. A Critical Essay Upon the Works of Aleister Crowley.
London: Neptune Press, 1976. Limited Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 328pp. Red cloth with white-stamped title on spine and title and elaborate design on front cover. This edition limited to 500 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No. 229. Fuller, who went on to become one of Crowley's leading disciples, originally wrote this as an entry in a competition Crowley held for the best essay on his own literary work. Fuller's essay won (it is rumoured to have been the only entry) and - surely somewhat surprisingly - he was duly paid the hundred pound prize that Crowley had offered. With Crowley's assistance Fuller rewrote the essay, and Crowley published it in 1907. This is a facsimile of the popular edition (sometimes called the second edition) that was published at the same time as the limited first edition in 1907. A little light shelf wear, hint of bruising to corners and spine ends of boards which are slightly sun-faded, edges of text block a bit darkened with two tiny spots of browning on the fore-edge. Pages bright and clean. Generally a tight, clean VG+ copy. (No dust jacket as issued). Item #74564
ISBN: 0950500119
Price: $235.00