London: Mandrake Press Limited, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 158 pp. Original blue-grey wrappers. The first edition of Stephensen's fascinating study of the press attacks on Crowley in the 1920s. Crowley's then-secretary, Israel Regardie, assembled a large collection of pertinent press clippings from Crowley's files, which P. R. Stephensen used..... More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. First paperback edition. Softcover. Large Octavo, x + 470pp. "An exploration into the life and works of a modern mystic, occultist, poet, mountaineer, and bisexual adventurer known to his contemporaries as 'the Great Beast.'" Although largely overshadowed by Richard Kaczynski's "Perdurabo" and other..... More

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1989. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. xii + 588pp. Original fine scarlet cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations, index. John Symond's penultimate revision of the biography of Crowley that started life earlier, as 'The Great Beast'. It includes a considerable..... More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi + 372pp. Black cloth with silver titling to spine, endnotes, biblio and index, b&w illustrations. A scholarly study. From the publisher: "Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B...... More

Oxford: Golden Dawn Publications, 1986. First Edition. Softcovers. Quarto 11 x 8 inches. Stapled pictorial wrappers. 30pp. The first issue of this important British journal which gathered together writers on Thelemic subjects from the (then) Caliphate, Typhonian, and other Crowleyan (and even anti-Crowley) perspectives and traditions. Contents include: "Sexual Magick..... More

Eugene, OR: Conquering Child, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Folio (newspaper format). 12pp. (inclusive of covers). B/w illustrations. The first issue of this quarterly Thelemic journal out of Eugene, Oregon. This issue includes lengthy articles "The Thelemic Origins of Wicca" by Aaron Leitch, the first installments of "Qabalah: The Key to..... More

USA: Privately published, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. viii + 120pp, [viii]. B&w illustration. A work of fiction featuring a magician who is loosely based on Aleister Crowley. A little light rubbing to covers - else a tight, clean near Fine copy. More

West Palm Beach FL: Sekmet Books, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 112pp. Illustrated wrappers. Cover photo by Illia Tulloch. SIGNED by the late Jim Wasserman and his co-author, wife, Nancy, on the half-title page. The true first edition of this work, preceeding the various "limited editions" which followed. "Drawing..... More

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, 2000. First Trade Edition. Softcover. Trade paperback. 238pp. Signed by the author on title-page. Includes a wildly inaccurate portrayal of Crowley in a short story modelled on Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" tales. From the collection of English bibliophile and Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas Bishop-Culpeper, with..... More

Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1992. Second Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 208pp. Colour illustrated covers. Glossary, b&w illustrations. From the publisher: " Wilson examines the jumping Jesus phenomenon, talks with Buckminster Fuller, finds a "maybe" in the universe, eyeballs Carl Sagan and witch-hunters of the scientific establishment, asks whether God is a...... More

York Beach, Maine USA: The Teitan Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (9 x 6 inches, approx 23.5 x 15.2cm). 344pp. Bound in fine black cloth, with gilt titling etc to the spine, Yorke family crest in gilt to upper board. Sewn, printed on acid-free paper. Colour frontispiece, and 16..... More