While this catalogue offers our typical selection of used and rare books and ephemera by and about Aleister Crowley it does include some truly outstanding items. Pre-eminent amongst these would have to be two original portrait photographs of Aleister Crowley
Undated - circa late 1940s. First Edition. A single page mimeographed poem. Mimeographed (or otherwise mechanically reproduced) on a single 8 x 10 inch buff colored sheet. Crowley wrote two versions of this 'poem' - one of which was quite obscene (its first line being "I was bxxxxxing a boy... More about The Loving Ballad of John Anthony Long
New York, NY: Dover Publications Inc., 1976. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. xxx + 436 pp + adverts. The Dover reprint edition of "Magick in Theory and Practice." This edition, along with Symonds, "The Great Beast," probably introduced more people to Crowley in the nineteen seventies and eighties, than all the other... More about Magick in Theory and Practice
NP [ London ]: Privately Printed, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 112pp . Original quarter cloth - white backstrip with blue-grey papered boards. Paper title label on spine. Crowley wrote of that the love lyrics in this collection: "treat love not as an object in itself, but on... More about The Mother's Tragedy
San Francisco, CA: [ OTO ] Stellar Visions, 1986. First Edition Thus. Large format softcover. Quarto ( 8.5 x 11 inches), iv, 22 pp, ii pp. Flexible clear plastic front cover over printed paper cover sheet, dark plue plastic rear cover, secured together with a black plastic back strip. Hand-colored... More about O.T.O. Liber XV. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae
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NP, [ 1939 ]. A plain white 4" x 3" card with rounded corners and the word "Menu" gilt stamped in relief at the top . Written on the card, in Crowley's hand, is "Lunch Jan 19 / Macassar Fish biscuits / Faisan Mt. St. Elias / Bradenham Ham /... More about An Original Handwritten Menu Card for a meal he served on [ Thursday], January 19 [1939
Oxford, England: Mandrake Press, 1993. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 16pp. Original cream wrappers lettered in black. Number 18 of the Mandrake Press Booklets series. Reprint of a poem written by Crowley for his then wife, Rose Crowley (Kelly). Covers lightly rubbed, otherwise a tight, clean near Fine copy. More about Rosa Decidua; Mandrake Press Booklets series
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Large Ocatavo. x + 130pp. Original brick-red boards, with linen spine and white paper spine-label. First Edition limited to 500 copies thus: on machine-made paper (there were also 6 copies on India paper). A collection of poetry in four... More about The Soul of Osiris. A History
Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small square octavo. 36 pages (printed on recto only). Brown cloth with gilt title on spine and front cover. A poem 'Written at Tozeur 17 March 1914,' it was first published in an issue of the Occult Review of the... More about The Soul of the Desert
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1978. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. Stapled booklet. Not paginated [ 68pp.] Illustrated wrappers. The second Samuel Weiser printing of this separate publication of an essay which first appeared as 'A Description of The Cards of the Tarot' in The Equinox, Volume 1, Number 8, 1912... More about Tarot Divination
England: NP, ND [ 1971 ]. Reprint. Softcover. Large octavo. 18pp. Grey stapled wrappers with white lettering to upper cover. "Temperance" was first published in 1939 and is a collection of five poems each with individual dedication: including one for Deidre McAlpine (mother of Aleister Ataturk), one for Augustus John... More about Temperance. A Tract for the Times
London: O.T.O., 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (11.25 x 8.25 inches). Not paginated. [20pp] Original cream card wrappers wih red printed titling, tied with gold cord. First edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies, this being copy number 82, SIGNED by Crowley on the limitation page. A collection of... More about Temperance. A Tract for the Times
Hollywood, California, NP ( Ordo Templi Orientis ), 1942. First Edition Thus. Softcover booklet, stapled. Octavo (8 1/2 " x 6 1/4") 8 pp. Grey paper wrappers, secured by cord ties, with "Thumbs Up!" and "in hoc signo Vinces" around Crowley's phallic "mark of the Beast" sigil printed in black... More about Thumbs Up! Five Poems by Aleister Crowley
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1943. Two original 4.25" x 3.25" black and white portrait photographs - at least one of which appears to be unpublished. They are both of Aleister Crowley wearing a turban, and in one, smoking a pipe, and are quite likely from the same series of photos taken for the frontis... More about Two original portrait photographs of Aleister Crowley, tipped back to back onto a sheet of mold...
ND: ND [circa 1920s - 1930s ]. Typescript. Probably top-copy carbon. Typed on the rectos only of 63 leaves (including 3 blanks) of 8" x 10" British "Large Post Quarto" typing paper, in original period plain blue/green card wrappers, secured with string ties at inner margins. Approx. 20 manuscript corrections... More about A Typescript Comprising three of Crowley's Holy Books: "Liber VII: Liber Liberi Vel Lapidis...
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Foyers: Society For The Propagation Of Religious Truth, 1905, 1906, 1907. First Editions. Softcovers. 3 volumes, Octavos, Black "Camel hair" wrappers with white lettering. Text printed on "India paper." Vol. I: x, 270pp (includes errata facing p. 264); Vol. II: viii, (2), 282pp, Vol. III: viii, 248pp. This, the "Essay... More about The Works of Aleister Crowley [ The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley ] (in 3 Volumes
Kings Beach, CA: Thelema Publications, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xviii + 60 pp. Original gilt decorated purple cloth with color frontispiece and purple endpapers. This copy SIGNED on the title-page by the editor, Martin P. Starr. First and only Edition - limited to 1000 copies (there was also... More about Amrita. Essays in Magical Rejuvenation
Las Vegas NV: Falcon Press, 1988. Fourth Printing. Softcover. Octavo. [ xvi ], 368pp. The fourth printing of Israel Regardie's edition of Crowley's commentary to "The Book of the Law." "The Law is for All" was arguably the first book to present Crowley's thoughts on "Liber AL" to a broad... More about The Law is for All. An Extenuation of the "The Book of the Law"
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1990. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Square Octavo. xxii + 108 pp + 12 pp of adverts, black cloth with white titling to spine and front cover, frontis. A facsimile edition of Crowley's Konx om Pax, including an important new introduction by Crowley scholar Martin P. Starr... More about Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1991. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 138pp. Quarter red cloth w/ white papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, red Arabic script across front cover. A facsimile reprint of one of Crowley's scarcest works - part homo-erotic parody, part mystical text. With an Introduction by... More about The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz
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Zurich: Verlag Psychosophische Gesellschaft, ND (Circa 1964). First German Language Edition. Hardcovers. Small octavos. Two volumes (complete). Volume I: xvi, 5 - 238pp. (xxiipp adverts) & Volume II:, xvi , 239 - 558pp Original bright red printed paper-covered boards, with plain black cloth backstrips. The first German-language translation of Crowley's... More about Magie Als Philosophie Für Alle. A. Theorie (Teil I & II) [ Two Volumes
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Basel, Switzerland: Sphinx Verlag, 1976. First German Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 264pp. Black composite boards with silver lettering, black endpages illustrated with portrait of Crowley on front blank, b&w illustrations. The first German language edition of the 1974 edition of Crowley's major astrological work, Liber DXXXVI, which is annotated and... More about Astrologick. Mit Ausführlichen Studien Über Die Planeten Neptun und Uranus [ Liber DXXXVI
Chicago, IL: Teitan Press, Inc., 1988. First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 152 pp. Green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Frontis portrait of previously unpublished photograph of Crowley. This copy SIGNED by Martin P. Starr on the title-page. Eight tales by Crowley, dramatizing mythical and legendary themes... More about Golden Twigs
Miami, Florida: NP, 1987. First Edition. Quarto booklet. A single large sheet folded to give four (11" x 8.5") pages. A single issue of Khabs, a US journal affiliated with Kenneth Grant's [Typhonian] O.T.O. (as it then was). This issue includes an editorial, a short essay "A Qabalistic Analysis of... More about KHABS. Official Organ of the Ordo Templi Orientis. Vol. II, No. 5 An. LXXXIII, Winter Solstice...
Dallas, TX: Sangreal Foundation, Inc., 1972. Second Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 80pp. Original textured blue cloth with silver title etc. to upper board and spine. Frontis. Widely regarded as one of Crowley's best works, and as one of the wittiest and most insightful studies of the subject ever... More about Eight Lectures on Yoga. The Equinox Volume III, Number Four
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London: ( Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth ), ND (ca. 1910). Disbound / unbound publisher's catalogue. Octavo. 12pp. Twelve pages giving detailed listings of publications of Aleister Crowley including: "Aceldama", "The Tale of Archais", "Songs of the Spirit", "Jezebel", "An Appeal to the American Public", "Jephthah", "The Mother's... More about Excerpt A - from the Catalogue ] Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth. Boleskine,...
