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The Equinox. Volume V, Number 1. [The Commentaries of AL, being The Equinox Volume V No. 1 by Aleister Crowley and another (title page details)]
by CROWLEY, Aleister and Marcelo MOTTA
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Canberra: Thelema Publishing Company, 1990. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Canberra, Thelema Publishing Company, 1990 (second edition)/ 1975. Quarto, xxiv, 456, [2] (advertisements) pages (including the 65-page facsimile of the original manuscript of 'Liber AL') with 2 colour plates. Gilt-decorated purple cloth (with slight flecks to the surface); edges lightly marked; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed and foxed. The dustwrapper blurb to the 1975 first edition stated that it 'introduces a new series of "The Equinox" ... released under the auspices of Marcelo Motta, the current Praemonstrator ... It is the first book to bear the Imprimatur of the Order since the publication of Liber Aleph in 1962'. There is a five-page editorial new to this posthumous second edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133409
- Title
- The Equinox. Volume V, Number 1. [The Commentaries of AL, being The Equinox Volume V No. 1 by Aleister Crowley and another (title page details)]
- Author
- CROWLEY, Aleister and Marcelo MOTTA
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Thelema Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Canberra
- Date Published
- 1990
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Blurb
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- Cloth
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