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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 $20

55275 Crowley, Aleister Leah Sublime No details. Privately printed. Limited edition of 500, of which this is No. 291. Stiff card wrappers with title on tipped in paper, unpaginated. B & W frontispiece. Rough cut fore edges. Fine. Click here to order $160

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

55262 Crowley, Aleister Liber E and Liber O The Equinox Samuel Weiser, New York, 1979. Stapled booklet. 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 $20

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

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

55277 Crowley, Aleister The Wild Ass Khephra Press, no details. Limited edition of 150 of which this is No. 30. Stapled booklet, non paginated. Minor wear. Near fine Click here to order $65

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. First printing in this form. Click here to order $22

55004 Fuller, Capt. J F C The Star in the West A Critical Essay Upon the Works of Aleister Crowley Neptune Press, London, 1976. Limited facsimile edition hardcover; book number 36 of 500 copies; 327 pp. Lightly toned and soiled page edges. Red cloth boards with white decoration and lettering. Edges and corners of boards slightly worn, corners bumped. Very good to near fine otherwise. Click here to order $120

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

55148 O.T.O. The Equinox of the Gods O.T.O, copyright 1936. Quarto hardcover, 137pp., & The Book of the Law, 21pp., b&w illustrations and appendix; i.e Book of the Law in handwritten script. Facsimile edition from early 1970s. White cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine; age-discoloured/soiled with minor edge wear, binding upside down with title on effective rear board. Lightly soiled page edges. Otherwise, very good with no internal blemishes. This book was dictated to Aleister Crowley on April 8,9 and 10, 1904 by Aiwass, a being whose nature he does not fully understand, but who described Himself as ' the Minister of Hoor-Paar-Kraat' (The Lord of Silence). The circumstances of the dictation are also described in the Equinox, Vol.I, No.vii; this publication being, however, a fuller account. Click here to order $250

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

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