The GREAT BEAST - The Life of Aleister Crowley by SYMONDS, JOHN - 1963

Mayflower, 1973. Paperback. Very Good. 1973. 583-12195. Covers show light edgewear and creasing. Spine lightly creased, but sturdy. Binding sound. Previous owner wrote on front end paper. Interior lightly age toned but otherwise clean. > PAPERBACK

Mayflower, St Albans, 1973. Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 464 pp. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Edges browned. Marking to bottom margin of first 100pp. Covers slightly creased. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; England; Modern; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0583121950. ISBN/EAN: 9780583121958. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50437. . 9780583121958

NY: Roy Publishers, 1952. Book. Good. Hardcover. Hinge shaken, mild spotting to cloth and dustiness to exterior page edges. Text clean. 316pp..

Paperback / softback. New.

NY: Roy Publishers, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth with light rubbing to edges, mild age toning to pages. 316pp..

United Kingdom: Rider & Co, 1951. Hardcover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Gerald Yorke's invaluable bibliography. Second Imp . Rider & Co., London 1951. illus 316pp hb worn/discoloured with dampstaining to inside front cover and first few pages affecting the frontis but avoiding any text, contents sound, poor

London: Macdonald and Co, 1971. Hardcover. Very good(-) in very good(-) price-clipped jacket now in archival mylar.. Quarto in gold jacket; ix, 413 pages, plate : illustrations, portrait 23 cm. Symonds, John, 1914-2006. Occult, Thelema, Magick.

London: Macdonald, 1971. 1st edition thus being the augmented and combined edition of the 1951 The Great Beast and the 1958 Magick of Aleister Crowley, 8vo, 413pp, photo frontis; major work on the most misunderstood man in the whole, to paraphrase;VG Copy in the notoriously fragile DJ that is mildly rubbed with the beginnings of mild wear to spine tips but no noticeable loss and original price retained. Much has been written of Crowley and probably more to come, but this stands as the sanest study and certainly the standard work so far. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Rider & Co, 1955. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Gerald Yorke's invaluable bibliography. Sixth Imp. Rider, London1955. illus 316pp hb Some wear, inside front hinge split, some discolouration of pages. This was Jean Overton Fuller's (biographer of Victor Neuberg) copy and contains her bookplate along with a few of her notes and marked passages, good

London: Rider & Co, 1951. First Edition. photos, illustrations, DJ wrapped in archival cover, chipped bottom of spine torn by 2", not priced clipped, creasing, blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, 316 pages, binding very good, pages clean, bookstore stamp front pastedown, slight foxing to endpapers, light toned pages, indexed. very good/fair to good. This book is a fascinating account of an unbelievable life. It tells the reader of Crowley's early days at Cambridge, and his subsequent expulsion from Trinity. Later, of his activities as a poet, and as a magician in The Golden Dawn, a secret occult society of which Yeats was a member, and with whom, Crowley quarreled fiercely. One chapter in the life of this extraordinary man - for he had courage, resource, and the toughness of a great explorer - was his attempt in 1905 to conquer Kangchenjunga, the still unscaled peak of the Himalayas. That expedition ended in treachery, disorder, and the death of five men." John Symonds was known to be both… Read More