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esult of his work is this long-awaited authorized popular edition of Crowley’s ‘new commentary’ [...] Louis Wilkinson’s
editorial work was posthumously completed and augmented by Frater Superior Hymenaeus Beta of the O.T.O. This new
edition features annotations, reading lists and indexes, as well as the insightful introduction by Louis Wilkinson." (Cover
text) - The book also contains the text of the Liber AL in printed letters (Liber CCXX) and a facsimile of the manuscript
(Liber XXXI). - Very good copy.
214. Crowley, Aleister: The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz. A Facsimile
edition with an Introduction by Martin P. Starr. 1st facsimile edition. Chicago, The Teitan
Press, 1991. 13, VI, [2], 137 p., Gr.-8°, O-Halfcloth 95,00 €
Originally published privately and pseudonymously in 1910 in an edition of 200 copies. This edition contains the
introduction (13 p.) followed up by the facsimile. - One of Crowley’s scarcest works: partly homo-erotic parody, partly
mystical text. - Cover is a bit dirty and spotted; inside very slightly foxing, else very good.
215. Crowley, Aleister: The Soul of Osiris. Comprising The Temple Of The Holy Ghost and
The Mothers Tragedy. This edition is limited to 200 copies. New York, Gordon Press, 1974.
[4], 60 p., Gr.-8°, Gilt O-Imitation Leather 48,00 €
Poetry, reprinted from the 1899 edition. - A good to very goof copy.
216. Crowley, Aleister: The Soul of the Desert. King Beach (California), Thelema
Publications, [1974]. [4], 18, [1] p. (printed on brown paper), Kl.-8°, O-Hardcover 105,00 €
Crowley Cross-Index 203. - "Written at Tozeur 17 March 1914." Originally published in 1914 in the Occult Review. - Cover
is slightly dusty; a very good copy.
217. Crowley, Aleister: The Stratagem and Other Stories. 1st edition. London, The
Mandrake Press (Printed and made in England by The Crypt House Press Limited, Gloucester
and London), [1930]. 139 p., with 1 fig., Kl.-8°, O-Halfcloth in snakeskin-imitation 148,00 €
Crowley Cross-Index Nr. 120 and 666; Bibliotheca Crowleyana, Delectus Books. - Contents: The Stratagem, The
Testament of Magdalen Blair, His Secret Sin. ("The Stratagem" was first published in 1922 in "The English Review";
Crowley Cross-Index S47). - Crowley dedicated the book to "Josef Conrad, who applauded the first story; Allan Bennett,
Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya, who suggested the second, and Eugene John Weiland, who bowled me out over the third." -
Cover is rubbed and knocked; the lettering piece with fault; else a good copy.
218. Crowley, Aleister: The Vision and the Voice. Liber XXX Aerum vel Saeculi sub Figura
CCCCXVIII being of the Angels of the 30 Aethyrs. Text and Footnotes by Aleister Crowley.
Introduction and Explanation of Footnotes by Israel Regardie. Dallas (Texas), Sangreal
Foundation Inc. (Copyright Israel Regardie), 1972. 261 p., with frontispice and textfigs., 8°,
Gilt O-Cloth with Jacket 80,00 €
Crowley Cross-Index 171/2. - "Reprinted from the Equinox, Volume 1, Supplement to No. 5, but here reprinted for the first
time with an elaborate commentary by the Master Therion." (Introduction by Regardie) - Dr. Francis Israel Regardie (i.e.
Israel Regudy, 1907-1985) was from 1928 until 1937 the private secretary of Aleister Crowley - "In The Vision and The
Voice Crowley describes his spiritual experiences and his investigation of the subtle planed of the Enochian." (Cover text) -
Jacket slightly rubbed; frontispice with traces of an erased note; few pages with minor spotting; a very good copy.
219. Crowley, Aleister: White Stains. Edited with an Introduction by John Symonds.
Numbered Limited Edition (858/1000). London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1973. XV, 118 p., 8°,
O-Imitation Leather with Jacket 75,00 €
Crowley Cross-Index 188/1. - A reprint of one of the scarcest of Crowley’s books containing mystical and pornographical
poems, a few of them in French. The small original 1898 edition (100 copies) was published anonymus and almost
completely destroyed by British Customs in 1924. - The jacket shows minor traces of age; the white cover slightly yellowed;
title with small red-triangel stamp which represents "Aiwass" or (after a different school) "Heru-ra-ha" (The Active Aspect is:
Ra-Hoor-Khuit); otherwise a very good copy.
220. Crowley, Aleister, Mary Desti und Leila Waddell: Magick. Liber ABA. Book Four,
Parts I-IV [= cmpl.]. I: Mysticism. II: Magick (Elementary Theory). III: Magick in Theory and
Practice. IV: [Thelema] The Law. - Edited, annotated and introduced by Hymenaeus Beta.
Corrected reprint of the 2nd revised one-volume edition. York Beach (Maine, USA), Samuel
Weiser, 2000. LXXXIV [84], 844 p., with textillus and plates, 4°, Silver stamped illus. O-Cloth
with O-Jacket 83,00 €
"This one-volume edition of Aleister Crowley’s most important work has been produced in keeping with the author’s stated
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