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Catalogue of books on and about Aleister Crowley

55278 Crowley, Aleister 666 Bibliotheca Crowleyana The Collection of J.F.C. Fuller. Sure Fire Press, Edmonds, 1989. Stapled booklet, 24pp. Minor wear. Near fine J.F.C. Fuller was for a time a friend of Crowley's and an initiate of the A.'.A.', and even after their split he kept an interest in the occult and continued to buy Crowley's work. In 1965, Fuller arranged with bookseller Keith Hogg to sell his collection of Crowleyana, a near complete, unique and important assortment of rare editions, autographs, manuscripts and proof copies. In 1966 Hogg issued the catalogue Bibliotheca Crowleyana, intended as a description of Fuller's collection, but also a valuable bibliographic reference. Click here to order $23

55049 Crowley, Aleister AHA With Commentary by Israel Regardie Sangreal Foundation, Dallas, 1969. Hardcover, 76 pp., b&w illustrations. Green pebbled boards with silver lettering; minor soiling to edges and corners, head of spine slightly bumped. Lightly toned page edges. No dustwrapper. Near fine otherwise. In this epic poem, Crowley describes the mysical path in all its varieties with which he was familiar from a practical and experimental point of view. Click here to order $90

54851 Crowley, Aleister Astrology Neville Spearman, London, 19743 Hardcover, 204pp., b&w illustrations. Near fine in like dustwrapper. Written in 1915, this work explains astrology within the context of the mythology and mysteries of the West and restores the accretions of myth and fable which attend the Constellations, the Planets and their associated Gods, along with a host of similar symbolic systems, such as Tarot and alchemy. Appended are two exhaustive studies of Neptune, Uranus and their aspects to the other planets, and their influence in each of the twelve houses. Stephen Skinner has provided footnotes elucidating some of the more obscure references in the text, especially where Crowley touches upon some of the less commonly known aspects of the Tarot Atus. Click here to order $80

55283 Crowley, Aleister The Beast of Revelations Comments on: The God-Eater. No details. Privately printed. Stapled booklet, 32pp. Minimal wear. Card covers with dustwrapper. Near fine. E.J. Gold, the author of The American Book of the Dead reprinted this important work by Crowley, along with an introduction written some years later by an anonymous writer calling himself the "Beast" as did Crowley. This play presents a view of the Sufi tradition in life, rather than in philosophizing and speculation. Click here to order $65

55282 Crowley, Aleister The Beast of Revelations Comments on: The God-Eater. No details. Privately printed. Stapled booklet, 32pp. Minimal wear. Card covers with no dustwrapper. Else near fine. Click here to order $55

55274 Crowley, Aleister Book of Changes A new translation of the Book of Changes by the Master Therion. Brock Publishing, California, nd. Paperback, 64pp. Duodecimo. Equinox bookplate on reverse of front cover. Minor wear. Cover is toned with some slight spotting and crease to front panel. Otherwise very good to near fine. Click here to order $32

54620 Crowley, Aleister The Book of Changes A new translation of the Book of Changes. MRG, Hastings, nd. Duodecimo paperback. Minimal wear; near fine. Click here to order $30

55055 Crowley, Aleister The Book of Perfection Sub Figura Liber 440 93 Publishing Company, Quebec, 1977. Limited edition paperback, this, number 660 of 718 copies. 118pp., colour plates. Rough cut page edges on Carlyle Japan paper with red and black typefaces, and many pages still uncut. Slightly scuffed illustrated cover with minor edge and corner wear. Near fine. The trinity of scripture at the heart of the Thelemic Vedas, 220 (Liber AL vel Legis), 718 (The Book of Codes) and 77 (The Book of OZ) here issued as a three-fold Book of the Law. Click here to order $180

53581 Crowley, Aleister The Book of the Law 93 Publishing, Quebec, 1975. Paperback, oblong, 77pp. Moderate wear; page edges toned and spotted; covers lightly worn. Good to very good. A facsimile of Crowley's handwritten dictation of the Book of the Law, with typewritten text alongside. Click here to order $20

55048 Crowley, Aleister The Book of the Law Level Press, San Francisco, 1974. Paperback, 67 pp., b& w diagrams. Cover illustrates in gold the Egyptian stele of Revealing; slight discolouration and spotting especially along edges; foxed spine; edge and corner wear and creasing along front spinal edge. Lightly toned page edges. Very good. Click here to order $110

55257 Crowley, Aleister The City of God A Rhapsody 93 Publishing, South Stukely, 1979. Stapled paperback, 11pp., b&w frontispiece. Minor wear. Near fine. From the Preface by Crowley: "Poetry is the geyser of the Unconscious. Poetry is the intelligible musical expression of the Real whose mirror is the phenomenal Universe." Click here to order $36

55276 Crowley, Aleister Cocaine Level Press, San Francisco, 1973. Stapled booklet, non paginated, b/w illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine Cocaine was written in the US in 1917, shortly after the passing of the Harrison Act, legislation banning the non-prescription sales of cocaine and other drugs. In this essay, Crowley presents his arguments against the general banning of drugs, from the legalistic to the artistic, as well as descriptions of the physical and psychological aspects of addiction. Click here to order $50

53582 Crowley, Aleister The Complete Astrological Writings Duckworth, London, 1979. Paperback. Moderate wear; page edges toned; covers tarnished and lightly worn. Good to very good. Crowley's Treatise on Astrology, published here for the first time, is supplemented by two shorter works, also hitherto unpublished - one serious - Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia - the other a piece of Crowleian pastiche entitled How Horoscopes are Faked. Together they constitute all that Crowley wrote on the subject of astrology. The book is introduced, edited and fully annotated by John Symonds, Crowley's biographer and literary executor, and Kenneth Grant, international head of the Ordo Templi Orientis, Crowley's occult organisation. Click here to order $20

55260 Crowley, Aleister De Arte Magica Level Press, nd. Stapled booklet, not paginated. Very minor wear only. Fine. Click here to order $33

54850 Crowley, Aleister The Diary of a Drug Fiend University Books, Secaucus, 1970. Hardback. Minimal toning and spotting to page edges. Else near fine in like dustwrapper. First published in 1922, this book, although nominally fiction, is really a true story, thinly disguised. Condemned when it was published as "an ecstatic eulogy of the drug", it gives detailed descriptions of drug dosages and effects. Coloured by Crowley's ideas, actions, friends, foes and philosphies, it is also a fascinating literary game to sort out which character was which - what was real life and what was fantasy. In his new Foreward, Leslie Shephard, calls it "one of the most compelling records of drug fascination ever written". Click here to order $80

56422 Crowley, Aleister Eight Lectures on Yoga Falcon Press, Phoenix, 1985. First printing in this edition. Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Israel Regardie. Click here to order $25

55263 Crowley, Aleister Energized Enthusiasm The Equinox Samuel Weiser, New York, 1976. Stapled booklet, wear to spine; else very good to near fine. An essay on the use of certain methods and attitudes which properly understood will allow one to tap the source of universal energy. Click here to order $28

55053 Crowley, Aleister The Holy Books Sangreal, Dallas, 1972. Hardcover, second printing, 116 pp., White boards with gilt decoration and lettering; spotting along edges and spine. Head of spine slightly bumped. Lightly toned/spotted page edges. Scuffed dustwrapper with edge and corner wear; rear panel spotted. Near fine otherwise. Click here to order $110

54611 Crowley, Aleister The I Ching Level Press, San Francisco, nd. [c.1971]. Paperback. Near fine. Unread copy. Click here to order $45

56400 Crowley, Aleister The Law is For All An Extenuation of The Book of the Law. Falcon Press, Las Vegas, 1985. Softcover, 368pp. Minimal wear; fine. Click here to order $25

55292 Crowley, Aleister Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) Sub figura CCXX 93 Publishing, South Stulely, 1976. Stapled booklet, 32pp. Small format. Near fine. This edition is published by Soror Tanith - 789 and Frater OTz PTN - 690 with the sanction of the OTO. Click here to order $40

53583 Crowley, Aleister Liber Aleph The Book of Wisdom or Folly. Level Press, San Francisco, 1974. Paperback, 219pp. Moderate wear; page edges and cover toned and spotted. Good to very good. A synthesis of the whole of Crowley's Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom into a clear and lucid projection of his True Will. Rather than a book of beliefs which are to be accepted on faith, it is a collection of actions and ideas to be experienced on all possible levels, in all possible ways. It could be called a handbook for the new age and is a guide for the evolution of the individual through this period of Chaos which marks the transition from the forms and formulae of the past Aeon into those of the present. Click here to order $30

55262 Crowley, Aleister Liber E and Liber O The Equinox Samuel Weiser, New York, 1979. Stapled booklet. Minor wear; very good to near fine. These two sets of instruction in Magick and Mysticism present a series of scientific practices systematically designed to provide a balanced course of occult training. Click here to order $28

55270 Crowley, Aleister Liber I vel Magi + Liber Israfel + Liber Stellae Rubae Unicorn, Seattle, nd. Stapled booklet, 20pp., Minor wear, very good to near fine. Click here to order $22

55041 Crowley, Aleister The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley Edited by Stephen Skinner Samuel Weiser, New York, 1979. Hardcover, 251pp., Dark blue cloth boards with edge and corner wear. Green dustwrapper with gilt decoration; lightly worn along edges and corners with chipping; creasing on tail of spine and corners. Near fine otherwise. These diaries were written by Aleister Crowley after his expulsion by Mussolini from his abbey of Thelema in Cefalu in Sicily. The records consolidate the work which Crowley initiated in Cefalu and explore more deeply the various techniques of cabbalistic and sexual magic as well as his contact with the Arab magic of North Africa where he spent some years. As an accurate and scientific record of consistent and well-documented magical practice there is little to equal Crowley's diaries; they are in fact the raw data from which, as Crowley had hoped, the science of magic will rise from the art which it has long been. Click here to order $90

55003 Crowley, Aleister Moonchild A Prologue. Dove Press and Samuel Weiser, New York, nd (1970]. Hardcover, 335pp. Lightly toned/spotted page edges. Black dustwrapper with white illustrations with small perforation on lower front edge. Near fine otherwise. Dove Press only specified imprint on title page, Weiser on front fold of wrapper, both on spine panel. One of only a few novels Crowley wrote, Moonchild is his most famous. This magical story deals with the seemingly endless battle of the dark and the light forces and tells of a particular chain of occurences involving the black lodge. Click here to order $140

54622 Crowley, Aleister Poems from the Equinox Morton Press, np, nd. Small quarto paperback. Light aging to covers; else fine. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, this copy being number 36. Click here to order $75

54852 Crowley, Aleister The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley Three Texts. Weiser, New York, 1973. Hardcover, 155 + 69pp. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Page edges lightly toned and spotted. Dustwrapper chipped and creased at edges; rubbing to spine hinges; scuffed corners. Very good. [Hardcovers with dustwrappers are professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film, where appropriate.] A unique collection of Qabalistic texts, this work consists of three texts. The first of these is Gematria (extrapolated from Equinox Vol. 1, No. 5) and full of Crowley's subtle satire. The second text is Liber 777, basic information originally provided piecemeal in the knowledge lectures of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The third text is Sepher Sephiroth (extrapolated from Equinox Vol. 1, No. 8), consisting of hundreds of Hebrew words selected from several sources and arranged according to their numerical value. With an introduction by Israel Regardie. Click here to order $60

55267 Crowley, Aleister The Soldier and the Hunchback Unicorn, Seattle, nd. Stapled booklet, 23pp., Minor wear, very good to near fine. Click here to order $22

54609 Crowley, Aleister Tao Teh King Askin Publishers, 1976. Paperback. Fine. Unread copy. Crowley's rendering of the greatest of the Taoist classics is a unique blending of the Western Magical Tradtion with the quietist illumination of the Path of wu wei or non-action. The text is accompanied by Crowley's notes cross-referencing his interpretation with other works and bringing out the magical implication of what on the surface appeared to be a completely mystical text. Click here to order $50

55261 Crowley, Aleister Tarot Divination The Equinox Samuel Weiser, New York, 1976. Stapled booklet, minor wear, very good to near fine. A description of the cards of the Tarot and their attributions; including a method of divination by their use. Click here to order $20

55044 Crowley, Aleister The Vision & The Voice Footnotes Edited and Explained by Israel Regardie Sangreal Foundation, Dallas, 1972. First edition, 261 pp., b&w illustrations. Lightly toned page edges with minimal spotting. Slightly scuffed & clipped dustwrapper with edge and corner wear; some chipping. Very good to near fine otherwise. Click here to order $100

53587 Crowley, Aleister The World's Tragedy Falcon Press, Phoenix, 1984. Paperback. Near fine. A reprint of the 1910 Paris edition of The World's Tragedy, the long, almost epic poem/play that was written as an indictment, a just trial and execution in word and image of a religious-political system which he considered had all but destroyed man's true nature, driving it to expressions of violence and self destruction. Click here to order $22

54853 King, Francis The Magical World of Aleister Crowley Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1977. Hardcover, 210pp., b&w illustrations. Near fine in like dustwrapper. In this biography of Crowley as a magician, Francis King makes a detailed examination of the three main strands from which Crowley wove his magick - the ritual magic of the Golden Dawn, the sexual occultism, a sort of Western version of tantra, which he derived from a German source and the teachings of a mysterious manuscript called The Book of the Law, which he claimed had been dictated to him by his personal Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwass. Click here to order $75

55279 Mudd, Norman In Defense of Aleister Crowley: An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook Sure Fire Press, Edmonds, 1993. Stapled booklet, 15pp. Minor wear. Near fine Click here to order $24

55280 Parfitt, Will and Drylie, A. A Crowley Cross-Index A Comprehensive Survey. ZRQ, no details, 1976. Stapled booklet, 36pp. Minor toning and wear. Very good to near fine. Consisting of two lists - List One being of individual pieces of work by Crowley and not complete in respect of Crowleys poetry; and List Two being of all works containing work by Crowley. Click here to order $40

54856 Roberts, Susan The Magician of the Golden Dawn The Story of Aleister Crowley. Contemporary Books, Inc., Chicago, 1978. Hardback, 337pp. Minor toning to page edges. Front inner flap of dustwrapper creased. Else near fine. Aleister Crowley was considered the most powerful and notorious magician who ever lived - the self-proclaimed "Great Beast" and tabloid "King of Depravity", he was also hailed as the great regenerator of a dying world. Yeats was a member of his order, Maugham wrote a book about him and Rodin was a friend.This work is based on Crowley's personal papers, diaries and correspondance made available to a biographer for the first time and the dramatized biography presents Crowley in his dual roles of man and magician. Click here to order $40

55032 Symonds, John The Great Beast The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley MacDonald, London, 1971. First edition hardcover, 413 pp., b&w frontispiece. Gold foil dustwrapper with black illustration; slight shelf wear with very minor edge wear. Near fine, otherwise. Click here to order $100