The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley. Tunisia, 1923.
Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 252pp. Blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, purple endpages, appendixes, index. The texts of Crowley's 1923 diaries, edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Skinner. "These diaries were written by Aleister Crowley after his expulsion by Mussolini from his abbey of Thelema in Cefalu in Sicily. The records consolidate the work which Crowley initiated in Cefalu and explore more deeply the various techniques of cabbalistic and sexual magic as well as his contact with the Arab magic of North Africa where he spent some years. As an accurate and scientific record of consistent and well-documented magical practice there is little to equal Crowley's diaries, they are in fact the raw data from which, as Crowley had hoped, the science of magic will rise from the art which it has so long been." A hint of bruising and rubbing the the head and tail of spine, edges of text block darkened and with a couple of light scrapes. Else a tight, bright, clean VG+ copy in VG or better dust jacket (Dust jacket lightly shelf rubbed and with some creasing and small chips and tears to the edges. Not price clipped. Now in protective mylar cover). Item #74697
ISBN: 0859780228
Price: $185.00