New York: George H. Richmond, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 400pp. Blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & silver on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & plates. Top-edge-gilt. A 19th century quasi-Utopian novel which uses an earth-man's visit to an idealised (and more than a little..... More
The Hague / Paris: Mouton, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index & bibliography. 'Studies in English Literature, Vol. LX.' Tiny spot on rear board, minor foxing to endpapers, tiny fore-edge nicks to pages 17/18 & 19/20, otherwise a tight, clean VG copy in..... More
New York: Putnam, 1980. Reprint, Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 186pp. Light blue papered boards lettered in dark blue on spine. Horror novel. Page-edges lightly toned, spine ends a little rubbed, else a clean, tight VG+ copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket scuffed & rubbed, short top-edge tear to..... More
London: John Murray, 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 112pp. Green cloth boards lettered in black on spine, black lute design on front board. Bibliography. In the 'Wisdom of the East Series.' Top-edge foxed, tiny bump to top-corner of front board, else a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket..... More
London: John Murray, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. 112 pp. Green papered boards with black titling to spine and black emblem to upper board; bibliography. Wisdom of the East Series. Light general wear with a bit of light rubbing and light bumping to spine ends. Otherwise, a sound and unmarked Near Fine..... More
New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 368pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Bibliography & index. B/w illustrations. Biography of the wealthy American ex-patriate dilletante and publisher Harry Crosby, founder of the Black Sun Press. Hint of foxing to page-edges..... More
New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 236pp. Original cloth lettered in blue on spine & front board. Bibliography & index. Spine ends slightly chafed, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, pen underlining to text & marginal marks to about 32 pages..... More
Ontario, Canada: Gadfly Productions, ND [ 2003 ]. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 116pp. + iv pp adverts. Cheaply produced in blue stapled wrappers illustrated cover by Holly Bodreau, and lettered in black on upper cover. A collection of six Crowley's 'Simon Iff' in America detective stories comprising: "A Dangerous..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Black Moon Publishing, 1985. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 36pp. Gray stapled wrappers. A reprint of a Simon Iff detective story. that was first published in "The International," September 1917. From the library of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper. Light browning to spine and edges over covers..... More
London: Neptune Press, 1976. Limited edition, Facsimile edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp. Stapled oversized wrappers, Edition limited to 500 hand- numbered copies, this being 424. Reproduces in one volume three slender books of verse first published pseudonymously by Crowley in 1905 and 1907. Each has a black and white frontis, after..... More
NP [ Oxford, England ]: Black Lodge Publishing [ Mandrake Press ], 1991. First Edition Thus - Second Issue. Softcover. Octavo. Not paginated [20pp.] Black-printed cream stapled card covers, text on cream paper. Although not stated this is the second issue of this booklet - the first issue was in..... More
Santa Cruz CA: Magick Theatre [ Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O. ], 1987. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 28pp. Green stapled illustrated wrappers with black lettering, b&w pipe smoking Crowley on rear cover. A mystical play by Crowley that was first published in "Konx om Pax." As far as we can..... More
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Santa Cruz CA: Magick Theatre [ Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O. ], 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 56pp. Pink stapled illustrated wrappers with black lettering, b&w illustration. Photocopy type production values. An unusual combination of these two works, published by the Magick Theatre of Santa Cruz in 1988. From the..... More
Santa Cruz CA: Magick Theatre [ Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O. ], 1987. First Edition Thus. Softcover booklet. Octavo. 30pp, iv adverts. Yellow stapled illustrated wrappers with black lettering, b&w pipe smoking Crowley on rear cover. The first Magick Theatre edition of the plays "Doctor Bob" (first published in "The Equinox"..... More
San Francisco, CA: Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition thus. Large format. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), Transparent plastic covers with faux leather backstrip over printed wrappers. 176 pp. with b/w illus. Colored endsheets. As the title suggests, this work contains facsimiles of a collection of Crowley's writings that were..... More
San Francisco, CA: Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), 176 pp. with b/w ills. Flexible clear plastic front cover over printed paper cover sheet, dark blue plastic rear cover, secured together with a black plastic back strip. Hand-colored endsheets. An early..... More
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. xvi + 144pp (numbered 433-576) + viiipp. Original blue printed wrappers. This issue includes the first appearance in print of Crowley's poem "Morphia" - (pp. 433-438) - published under the pseudonym "A Victim." Crowley wrote the poem during his travels..... 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
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
