Broad selection of material by and about "The Beast" and his friends. Have a great time browsing.
London: The Mandrake Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 140pp. Original gold & black imitation-snake skin patterned boards with black cloth spine with white paper title label. Three novellas by Crowley: "The Stratagem," "His Secret Sin," and "The Testament of Magdalen Blair". "The Testament of Magdalen Blair " paints..... More
Benares [ Actually Paris ]: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Large Quarto (viii) + xii + 194 + (ii)pp, Original gold-printed blue paper wrappers. Extremely scarce: edition limited to only 100 copies (there were also 10 advance copies in printed red wrappers). The 100..... More
London: O.T.O., 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (11.25 x 8.25 inches). Not paginated. [20pp] Original cream card wrappers with red printed titling, tied with gold cord. First edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies, this being copy number 40, SIGNED by Crowley. A collection of five poems each with..... More
London: Privately Printed, 1910. First Edition - Deluxe. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 228pp. Original white buckram boards with gilt titling and winged scarab design on top board. Top-edge gilt, fore and lower edges uncut. 'Glossary of Obscure Terms' bound in at rear. Copy no. 13 of a deluxe edition of..... More
![Item #66025 The Works of Aleister Crowley [ The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley ] (in 3...](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/66025.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678982175)
Foyers: Society For The Propagation Of Religious Truth, 1905, 1906, 1907. First Editions. Softcovers. 3 volumes. Octavos (7 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches). 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..... More
Des Plaines, Illinois: Yogi Publication Society, ND [ Circa 1990s ]. Reprints. Hardcovers. Octavos. Three volumes (complete set); x + 270pp & 284pp & 248pp. Bound in Yogi Publishing Society's distinctive red faux leather with gilt title, and symbols to upper cover and spine, publisher's device and blind rules on..... More
London: The OTO, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches) 128pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering down spine and on upper board, which also has a gilt-stamped device: Crowley's 'mark of the Beast' sigil. Frontisportrait of Crowley by Augustus John. Edition limited to 500 copies..... More
Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1994. Ninth Printing. Softcover. Octavo. xxxii + 528pp. Pictorial card covers. 4 full-page illustrations. Index. Crowley's original title for this book was 'Aleister Explains Everything' - for it is in essence his personal commentary on magical work and training, offered in the simplest and most..... More
Newburyport, MA: Red Wheel Weiser, 2006. Revised and Expanded Edition, First thus. Softcover. Large octavo. lii + 200pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. A revised and expanded edition of this important study of the theory and practice of the Magical Diary. It includes the texts of Crowley's "John St John" and "A..... More
Scottsdale, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 1991. Limited Special Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 528pp. Full purple faux leather boards with gilt title, etc. to spine, and front cover, marbled endpapers, index. Crowley's original title for this book was 'Aleister Explains Everything' - for it is in essence his personal commentary..... More
New York: 93 Publishing, 1986. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. (9.25 x 6.25 inches). 288pp. Beige sailcloth with red gilt embossed O.T.O. lamen to front board, red titling down spine with small ankh-f-n-khonsu seal. B&w frontis and illustrations, maroon endpapers. Color plate tipped in opposite the half title page..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1998. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. Approx. 300pp. An important collection of Crowley's Qabalistic writings, which was first published by Weiser as a hardcover under the title "The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley" in 1973, and re-titled in 1977. It was then reprinted as a paperback in..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. First Printing of Corrected Edition. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. 960pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, b&w frontis and illustrations. The first printing of the revised and corrected edition of Crowley's monumental autobiography. Crowley had originally intended that it would be published..... More
London: Arkana, 1989. Reprint. Softcover. Large octavo. 960pp. Large, thick paperback, with pictorial covers. B&w illustrations, editor's notes, index. 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 and various internal disputes led to..... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1997. Second printing. Softcover. Large octavo. xvi + 252 pp. Illustrated covers, appendixes. Index. The second Weiser softcover printing of these deeply introspective diaries which start with Crowley's arrival in Tunis following his expulsion by Mussolini from his abbey of Thelema in Cefalu in..... More
St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. 1134pp. Red faux leather with silver embossed cover and spine. Illustrations, index. The first edition of Regardie's selection of Crowley's most important writings - 'all the magical writings' including of course Liber CCXX, "The Book of the Law"..... More
Thame, England: Mandrake Press, Ltd., 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 304pp. Black cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine. Black & white frontis, and photo plates, line drawings by Dwina Murphy-Gibb. Edition limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies. SIGNED the Keith Richmond on the title-page. The first major separate study..... More
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Square Octavo. xxii + 108 pp + 12 pp (adverts). Original black cloth with white titling to spine and front cover, frontispiece. Originally published on 1907, this is essentially a facsimile edition of Crowley's "Konx om Pax", including an important..... More
![Item #70193 The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz [ The Bagh-i-Muattar ]....](https://weiserantiquarian.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/70193.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678929748)
Chicago, IL: The Teitan Press, 1991. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 138pp. Quarter red cloth w/ cream 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 added Introduction..... More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. x + 368pp. White papered boards lettered in red on spine. A reprint of Crowley's famous novel of addiction, magick and redemption. This edition includes a new Foreword by Leslie Shepard (1917-2004), a writer, editor and film-maker, who..... More
Stockholm: EDDA, 2011. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi + 110pp. Black cloth with facsimile Crowley signature on upper board in white, and white printed title to spine, black endpapers, ribbon marker, colour illustrations. Edition limited to 418 hand-numbered copies. A recent limited edition reprint of Crowley's famous erotic/poetic..... More
Dallas, TX: Sangreal Foundation, Inc., 1972. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 116pp. Pictorial wrappers. The first softcover edition of this selection of the Thelemic "Holy Books." The Sangreal edition was first published in hardcover in 1969 - and then reissued in both hardcover and softcover editions in 1972. As has..... More
Dallas TX: Sangreal Foundation, Inc., 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 78pp. Green cloth with silver title, etc. to spine. This is the first separate edition of Crowley's epic mystical poem, with an extensive thirty page Commentary by Israel Regardie. A liittle light shelf wear, spine ends lightly bruised, a...... More
York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo, xiv + 454pp. Black cloth, gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt device on front cover, illustrations, index. By far the best edition of this important collection of magical texts. In addition to the details of the "Vision and..... More
New York: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1974. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 204pp. Maroon cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, frontis. Crowley's major astrological work, Liber DXXXVI, annotated and with an Introduction by Stephen Skinner. Hint of bruising to corners, slight shadowing to endpapers. The front free-endpaper, half-title..... More
