London: Pocket Publications Ltd. / Hulton Press, August 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. Eccentrically paginated, approximately 104pp. [ x + 85-168pp + xi - xx.] Color illustrated wrappers, extensively illustrated in b&w. A single issue of this popular monthly magazine which includes the first publication of a strange little..... More
London: The English Review, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Large Octavo, approx. 184 pages (paginated i - xxiv, 289 - 432, xxv - 40). Original printed blue wrappers. The issue includes the first appearance in print of Crowley's short story "The Stratagem" - (pp. 339 - 351). Also includes "Vin Ordinaire"..... More
London: The English Review, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. viii + 528pp. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered red title-label on spine. A bound edition of The English Review, Volume XVIII (comprising four issues: August, September, October & November 1914). Bound without advertisements or wrappers. Aleister Crowley contributes a...... More
Berkeley, California: Red Flame / J. Edward and Marlene Cornelius 2001 (First Edition), 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. xiv + 212pp + (ii) First Edition limited to 156 copies. Original printed wrappers. In this issue the Corneliuses have assembled and reprinted an astonishing number of contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts..... More
Berkeley, CA: Privately Printed (J. Edward and Marlene Cornelius), Berkeley, California, 1999 (First Edition - limited), 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (vi) + xii + 220 pp (+iipp). Original printed wrappers. Edition limited to 156 copies. The sixth issue of this important journal of Thelemic scholarship, this issue devoted to..... More
Great Britain: First Impressions, 1992. First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. Small format (6.75 x 3.75 inches) x + 110pp. Beige printed glossy card wrappers reproducing a drawing by Austin Osman Spare. This copy signed by publisher Naylor on the title page. A facsimile reprint of the 1898 first edition on..... More
NP [ USA ]: Privately Printed. 1987. First Edition Thus. Limp covers. Quarto. iv + 44 pages. Black strip binding with dark black plastic covers. Glossary. A duplicated (xeroxed?) typescript made from the text of Crowley's book "Little Essays Toward Truth." It apparently exactly reproduces the text of the original..... More
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Cambridge, England: The Granta, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [394pp.] Original publisher's blue cloth illustrated and bordered in black, both upper cover gilt-lettered. Numerous b/w illustrations. A bound volume of the periodical, 'The Granta, from issues 265 to 288 inclusive. "The Granta" is the well known journal founded by students..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches). viii + 90pp. Original brick-red paper-covered boards with white cloth spine and paper title label. Title-page printed in red and black. As far as is known, this was Crowley's fifth book..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1901. First Edition. Softcover, Quarto. Green paper wrappers with title etc. and shamrock device printed in black on upper wrapper. (ii) + 30pp. According to Crowley's first bibliographer, Duncombe-Jewell this edition was limited to 450 copies (there were also 6 copies printed on..... More
London: Mandrake Press, ND [ 1990s ]. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. 32pp. Printed cream wrappers with title etc. and shamrock device printed in black on upper wrapper. Mandrake Press booklets - no. 27 with their adverts inside rear cover. A facsimile reprint of the 1901 First edition. A book of Crowley's..... More
Munich, Germany: Dunkles Zeichen Bucht, (1996 - actually 2006). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. (12 x 8.5 inches). Eccentrically paginated [ 54pp ], b&w illustrations. Original black metal spiral binding, heavy black transparent plastic cover sheets over pale blue card wrappers which are illustrated and lettered in black on upper..... More
Washinton, D. C. Privately Published, N.D. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 500pp. With a slip affixed to the front endpaper printed "Compliments of the author" underneath which is typewritten "Sent at the request of Henry Vincent". Navy blue cloth with white lettering. Portrait. A bizarre collection of letters mainly preoccupied..... More
Washinton, D. C. Privately Published, N.D. 1916. First Edition - "Author's Edition" Hardcover. Octavo. 500pp. Original navy blue cloth with white lettering. Frontispiece portrait. "Author's Edition": limited to 500 copies signed and numbered by the author (that is Henry Clifford Stuart). A bizarre collection of letters mainly preoccupied with politics..... More
Milan, Italy: Primordia / CISB, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 48pp. Blue stapled wrappers with black lettering and illustrations to both front and rear cover, b&w illustrations. ITALIAN text. A special number of this Italian periodical of esoterica. This number is devoted to the O.T.O. and contains six essays on..... More
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small quarto. xvi + 132 pp. Quarter maroon cloth w/ yellow papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, frontis, illustrations. Blind stamped line drawing of Crowley on upper board. New edition edited and with a foreword by Crowley scholar Martin..... More
Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, ND [ 1970s ]. Reprint. Softcover. Small octavo. xxii+ 142 pp. Textured white flexible wrappers with gilt titling to upper cover. A modern softcover reprint of a book of poetry that Crowley originally published semi-clandestinely in 1909 with Renouard of Paris (who had earlier..... More
Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, ND [ ca. 1990s ]. Reprint. Softcover. Small octavo. xxii+ 142 pp. Textured red flexible wrappers with gilt titling to upper cover. A modern softcover reprint of a book of poetry that Crowley originally published semi-clandestinely in 1909 with Renouard of Paris (who had..... More
Great Britain: First Impressions, 1993. Deluxe limited edition. Hardcover. Small format (7.5 x 5 inches). 82pp. Quarter black leather with black cloth boards, gilt titling to spine, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, silk page marker. Volume No. 21 of the First Impression series, this deluxe edition limited to 50..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Black Moon Publishing, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 18pp. Grey stapled wrappers, illustration on front cover. The text of a lecture which was to have been delivered before The Oxford University Poetry Society on the Evening of Monday, February 3rd, 1930. The lecture was cancelled at the last moment..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Black Moon Publishing, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 18pp. Grey stapled wrappers, illustration on front cover. The text of a lecture which was to have been delivered before The Oxford University Poetry Society on the Evening of Monday, February 3rd, 1930. The lecture was cancelled at the last moment..... More
NP, ND (circa 1980s?). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. (xii) + 32pp. Stapled booklet. Thick beige textured wrappers printed in black. Crowley's "The God-Eater", text and commentary. Comprises a title-page and then five leaves, printed on the rectos only, with the text of a newly typeset version of Crowley's commentary..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Magick Theatre [ Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O. ], 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover booklet. Octavo. 32pp. Pale pink stapled illustrated wrappers with black lettering, b&w photo of Crowley on rear cover. The first Magick Theatre edition combining two short dramas by Crowley. "The Bonds of Marriage" was..... More
London: Neptune Press, ND (1974 ?). Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 12pp. Glossy white stapled wrappers bordered and lettered in blue. A reprint edition of "City of God, A Rhapsody" a poem written by Crowley during his travels in pre-revolutionary Russia, and first published it in The English Review in 1914 and..... More
NP [ UK ]: Privately published, ND [ Circa 2011 ]. First Edition Thus. Softcovers. Octavo. Seven booklets. Stapled illustrated white wrappers, b&w titled and illustrated. A very unusual collection of seven neatly produced booklets reprinting works by Aleister Crowley: " Liber DCCCXXXVII, The Law of Liberty" (6pp); "Liber A'Ash..... More
