The catalogue consists of works relating to Aleister Crowley and his circle. As usual it is quite a broad selection, comprising modern books, including limited editions and signed copies, and a number of unusual earlier items.
York Beach, ME: Weiser / Red Wheel, 2006. Second Printing of the "centennial edition" Hardcover. Octavo (7.25 x 5.875 inches). 158 (+ii)pp. Matt papered boards with gilt & white titling on spine & and front board, and gilt decorations to front board. Black endpapers, red silk marker ribbon. Printed throughout..... More
Great Britain: First Impressions Press, 1993. Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Thin Octavo. 26pp, (ii). Original black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First Impressions series Volume no. 20. A reprint of one of the rarest of Crowley's printed works. First published in 1904, Chicago May was the nickname of the beautiful..... More
London: The O.T.O., 1943. First Edition thus. Softcover. Large Octavo. ii + 12pp. Original thick paper wrappers. Frontis portrait photograph of Crowley smoking a pipe. Printed at the Chiswick Press on fine mold-made paper. Edition limited to 200 signed and numbered copies, this copy is numbered 139 - but (as..... More
Edmonds, WA: Sure Fire Press, 1988. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Red stapled wrappers printed in black. Also known as Liber CDXIV "De Arte Magica" is an essay on the secret of the IXth degree of the OTO that was originally published in "Die Oriflamme," in Germany by Theodore Reuss in..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 368 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. What might be termed 'the drug culture edition' of Crowley's famous novel of addiction, magick and redemption. The book has a wonderful period design dustjacket..... More
![Item #59894 The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1 [ The Blue Equinox ]. Aleister CROWLEY](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/59894.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521061454)
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1992. Limited Edition Facsimile reprint. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 440pp. Original blue cloth decorated in bronze and gilt to replicate the binding of the 1919 First Edition, color frontis. A facsimile reprint of the original 1919 publication. This edition limited to 1000 copies. Crowley was..... More
Great Britain: First Impressions, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Octavo, xx + 328pp. Printed wrappers. The softcover edition of Volume # 1 of the First Impressions series of facsimiles of Crowley's work thus includes Crowley's notations and marginalia in facsimile. "The Giant's Thumb" is an anthology of Crowley's poetry, compiled between..... More
London: Wieland and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (ii) + viii + 114 pp, Original white buckram with gilt title, etc. to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. A play in which Crowley sought to describe "the Path of the Wise," in terms of the classic literature of..... More
NP [ San Francisco? ]: NP [ Level Press?], ND [ 1974 or 1980 ]. Facsimile edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 110pp + 12pp of adverts. Fluorescent green wrappers with red lettering. Although no date or publisher is specified, some sources suggest that this edition was produced by the Level Press..... More
London: Panic Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 24pp. White wrappers printed in black. An edition limited to 222 hand-numbered copies, this being number 32. A reprint of Crowley's spectacularly filthy poem dedicated to Leah Hirsig. Crowley wrote of it in his diary for June 28, 1920: "Against all principles..... More
Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1996. Reprint. Softcover. Small octavo. 96pp. B&w frontis, bibliography, glossary, index. A reprint of the corrected edition of this collection of essays that was first published in 1938. The essays cover matters Kabbalistic, Magical and Philosophical: an important collection by Crowley at his mature best..... More
Secaucus NJ: Castle Books, ND ( circa 1970s ). Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii + 436pp. Original beige papered boards with black title, etc. to spine. An early 1970s printing of the Castle edition of Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" (Book Four, Part III), generally described as the Beast's..... More
New York: Magickal Childe, 1990. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Large octavo (10 x 7 inches). xxviii + 436pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice" (Book Four, Part III), generally described as the Beast's magnum opus. This edition was reprinted in reduced format facsimile from the original 1929..... More
New York, NY: Dove Press & Samuel Weiser Inc., ND [ 1970 ]. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 336pp. Salmon-colored cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Crowley's famous second novel - with the addition of an anonymous page of verse at the front. This edition was a collaborative effort..... More
London: First Impressions, 1992. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small quarto. (ii)+ xvi + 122 pp. The softcover "First Impressions" printing of Crowley's play originally published by Wieland in 1912. Crowley hoped to persuade the renowned American actor and singer Paul Robeson (1898-1976) to put on a production of the play..... More
London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcovers. 2 Volumes. Each Quarto size. viii + 284pp. & viii + 308pp, Original white buckram, gilt titles and sigils on spines, reproduction of a self-portrait sketch by Crowley and his "phallic 'A' signature" stamped in black on top board of each volume..... More
Rushden, England: The Sceptre Press, 1974. Limited edition. Softcover. Octavo. 8pp. Mauve stapled wrappers with French flaps. Printed on Glastonbury laid paper. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies this being number 13. The first separate publication of this poem, and published in June, 1974 - 99 years after Crowley's birth..... More
![Item #39484 Tannhäuser. A Story of All Time [Tannhauser]. Aleister CROWLEY](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521061404)
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 142pp (+ ii pp. adverts). Original white cloth spine with blue papered boards, title etc on printed paper spine label. Quoth Crowley: "An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soul; the Tannhäuser story slightly remodeled." From the..... More
144 pages, duplicated (first carbon?) typescript of this apparently unpublished play by Crowley. Original loose sheets on 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inch typing paper, loosely inserted into plastic pockets in 3 modern archival binders. It seems that Crowley wrote "The Three Wishes" in 1919. In his "Remembering Aleister Crowley,"..... More
Des Plaines, Illinois: Yogi Publication Society, Circa 1990s. Reprints. Hardcovers. Three volumes. Complete set. Octavos. x + 270pp & 284pp & 248pp. Red faux leather with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover, blind rules on upper boards, frontis. portraits. A nicely produced reprint of the three volume collection..... More
California: Thelema Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xii + 220 pp. Original red textured glossy faux (?) cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Tipped in frontis portrait of Crowley, errata slip facing p. xii. The first edition of this important work, published by Crowley's successor, Karl Germer -..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., October, 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. Magazine. 130pp. Pictorial wrappers. This issue includes a 14 page "book length" trash biography of Aleister Crowley by Daniel Mannix entitled "Wickedest Man in the World" (it was later expanded and published as a pocket paperback entitled "The Beast")..... More
Methuen, Massachusetts: P-F Publications, 1971. First Edition. Softcovers. Octavo. Four volumes, each in a different colored printed wrapper, with staple bindings. Successively paginated, xvi + 110pp (& adverts at rear of each) b&w illustrations. In the early 1970s the authors founded a correspondence school of occult studies, with an emphasis..... More
NP [ Oxford ]: NP, 1988. First edition. Softcover booklet. Octavo. 3-18pp. Stapled yellow paper wrappers with black titling. The text tells of the relationship between the author (psychic quester Andrew Collins) and a woman named Helen Laurens, who claimed to be in communication with an entity purporting to be..... More
![Item #59860 Eight Lectures on Yoga [ The Equinox Volume III, Number Four ]. Aleister CROWLEY,...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/59860.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1521061454)
Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon Publications / OTO, 1994. Second Printing of this Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 80pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. B&w frontis portrait, index. "Eight Lectures on Yoga" is widely regarded as one of Crowley's best works, and as one of the wittiest and most insightful studies of the subject ever..... More
