An original scrapbook or album assembled by Crowley on the subject of chess. The book contains manuscript records in Crowley's handwriting of games that he had played, a large number of newspaper clippings of chess games, typescripts recording the details of games played by Crowley, etc. All loosely inserted or pasted into a printer's dummy of the Subscriber's Edition of The Equinox of the Gods.
NP, (Circa 1937 - 1938.). Hardcover, Quarto. Approx. 80pp. Plain buff colored boards with blue cloth back strip, pocket in back board (designed for insertion of the manuscript sheets of "The Book of the Law"). The book itself is clearly a publisher's mockup or "dummy" of the Subscriber's edition of..... More