This catalogue is the fifth in a series of online catalogues presenting a selection of works from the Aleister Crowley collection of Clive Harper, which is without doubt one of the finest in the world!
Paris: (Lecram Press), ND (1929). First Edition. A single sheet of this paper, folded once to give 4 quarto pages (10 3/4" x 7 1/2"). The first page announces the publication of the book and give a brief description of its aim and scope; the remaining three pages are headed..... More
Nashville, TX: Thelema Publishing Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xx + 696pp. Gold decorated boards with gilt title, etc. to spine and front cover. An important collection of Crowley's works gathered together around the theme of sexuality. They include the poem Leah Sublime, his Diaries for 1906-07, The..... More
Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 555pp (+ vpp. adverts) This first edition of this important biography, of which there were 3000 copies printed. (There was no 'trade' hardback of this first edition, although there were two different deluxe leather-bound issues.) The most detailed -..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1968. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 242pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Includes a lengthy (63 page) introductory essay by Israel Regardie, and the texts of Crowley's "The Psychology of Hashish" and his translation of Baudelaire's prose-poem "The Poem..... More
London: The Company of Heaven, 2009. Facsimile Edition. One of a limited edition of 100 recreations of the miniature Stele of Revealing that Crowley had manufactured in 1937 to be displayed in bookshop windows, to give publicity to his newly released work, "The Equinox of the Gods." Working from a...... More
Munich, Germany: Dunkles Zeichen Bucht, (1996 - actually 2006). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. (12 x 8.5 inches). Eccentrically paginated [ 54pp ], b&w illustrations. Original black metal spiral binding, heavy black transparent plastic cover sheets over pale blue card wrappers which are illustrated and lettered in black on upper..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large octavo. 960pp. Original quarter black cloth with grey papered boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, illustrations. Crowley had originally intended that his "Confessions" would be published in six volumes, but only two of these had been published before the Great Depression..... More
New York, NY: Gordon Press [ Headland Press ], 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii + 141pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt title etc to spine and upper board. An unusual union of the Gordon Press edition of "Clouds Without Water" with a custom dust jacket specially produced for..... More
New York, NY: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 156pp. + ivpp publisher's catalogue at rear. Original black cloth with gilt titling to spine. The first commercially published US hardcover edition of the revised text of Crowley's Qabbalistic masterwork, 777, which had originally been published..... More
NP: Privately Printed by O.T.O., ND ( circa 1970? ). Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. xxviii + 156pp. Black cloth with a double rule at head and tail of spine and 777 lettered vertically down the upper middle of the spine stamped in silver. Tables & hexagrams. Little is known about this..... More
NP [ San Francisco ]: Level Press, ND (ca. 1970?). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Landscape format. 6.5 x 10 inches. 98pp. Spiral bound, white illustrated card covers, b&w photo of Crowley. A very unusual and scarce printing of Crowley's "777" - apparently based on the Yorke/Germer edition of 1955. Undated..... More
London: Morton Press, ND [ 1974 ]. First UK Edition - Limited. Softcover. Small octavo. iv + 70pp + ii advert. White wrappers illustrated and lettered in black. Edition limited to 100 hand numbered copies, this being copy No. 4. This rare Morton Press edition is actually the first UK..... More
![The Book of Lies. [ Full title: ] Liber CCCXXXIII (333), The Book of Lies Which is Also Falsely...](/pictures/thumb/65868.jpg?v=1596729866)
London: Wieland and Co., 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. 132pp. Original black cloth with gilt titling on spine and title within an elaborate Egyptian-themed decorative border on the front cover. Errata slip facing p. 61. Black and white photographs of Crowley (on donkey) and Leila Waddell. One of Crowley's most..... More
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1997. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 196pp. Black covers illustrated with gold solar design, b&w illustrations. A softcover reprint of "The Book of Lies", one of Crowley's most important, and cryptic works. He wrote of it: "this book deals with many matters on all planes of..... More
York Beach, Maine USA: Samuel Weiser, 1991. Reprint. Softcover. Small octavo (6.34 x 4.75 inches) (ii) 50 + (68) pp (+viii blanks) Original bright red wrappers with "THE BOOK / OF THE LAW" lettered in gilt across the front cover, and "THE BOOK OF THE LAW" similarly lettered down the..... More
![The Book of the Law ] Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 unto DCLXVI...](/pictures/thumb/66660.jpg?v=1596729873)
NP [ Europe ]: [ "Goldendawnlodge", Vondel Park ], ND [ 2006 ]. POD. Hardcover. Tall octavo. (9.25 x 6.25 inches) Not paginated. (approx 60pp). Black papered boards lettered in red on upper cover, lettered in white on spine, very blurry image of the recto of the "Stele of Revealing"..... More
NP: Nuit / Hadit 31/418/93 Publications MMV, 2005. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Quarto. (11.75 x 8.25 inches). Eccentrically paginated [ 92pp ], b&w illustrations. Clip bound coated thick white wrappers, printed in black on both covers, colour sigil on rear, blue title page. Edition limited to 50 copies, this being..... More
![The Equinox, Vol. III, No. 1. [ "The Blue Equinox" ]. Aleister CROWLEY](/pictures/thumb/39450.jpg?v=1596729865)
Detroit, Michigan: Universal Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 308 + 132pp. (+ viii pp adverts.) Original blue buckram with red eye in triangle design on front board, red titling etc. to front board and spine. Color frontispiece portrait of Crowley by Leon Engers Kennedy, and color reproduction of..... More
Santa Cruz, CA / New York, NY: The Magick Theatre [ Thelema Lodge, O.T.O. ], 1988. Facsimile reprint. Softcover. Octavo. ( 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Stapled booklet. 20pp. Beige wrappers lettered in black on upper cover and illustrated in black on rear cover, illustrated title page. A facsimile..... More
![The God-Eater. A Tragedy of Satire [ The God Eater ]. Aleister CROWLEY](/pictures/thumb/66615.jpg?v=1596729871)
NP [ Santa Cruz, CA / New York, NY ]: The Magick Theatre [ Thelema Lodge, O.T.O. ], 1988. Facsimile reprint. Softcover. Octavo. ( 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Stapled booklet. 32pp. Violet wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on both covers. A facsimile reprint of the original 1903..... More
Santa Cruz, CA / New York, NY: The Magick Theatre [ Thelema Lodge, O.T.O. ], 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Stapled booklet. 32pp. Violet wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on both covers. "The Gods. A Drama" and "Good Hunting!" were first published..... More
Edmonds, WA: Sure Fire Press, 1989. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. 28pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Line illustration by Austin Osman Spare, table. Although not identified as such in the publication, this is an essay reprinted from "The Equinox" Vol. I, No. II (1910). Wrappers unevenly faded - otherwise a tight..... More
NP, ND (ca 1942). A natal chart in a hand-drawn pencil grid with astrological symbols etc. added in black ink. On the verso of a single sheet of 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inch blue notepaper with the printed letterhead of the Savoy Hotel, London. With Crowley's notes on the..... More
Santa Cruz CA: The Magick Theatre [ Thelema Lodge, O.T.O. ], 1988. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. ( 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Stapled booklet. 24pp. Pink wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on both covers. Two short works by Crowley: "His Majesty's Fiddler, A Sketch", & "The Blind..... More
Santa Cruz, CA / New York, NY: The Magick Theatre [ Thelema Lodge, O.T.O. ], 1990. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. ( 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Stapled booklet. 48pp. Pink wrappers illustrated and lettered in black on both covers. Originally published in 1912, this was the first "Magick..... More
