New York, Samuel Weiser Inc. 1970 1st thus. Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. In black cloth covers with gold lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW some minor fading to spine with some minopr rubbing and chipping to top spine end. Inner flap edges darkened. NOT price clipped. In protective cove sleeve.) Minor bump to rear corner else cloth clean and smart. Decorative stamp to front endpaper “Ex Libris ‘M’.” Some dark spotting to top of page edges else inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 335pp. This is a novel by Crowley about a magical war between a white lodge and a black lodge over an unborn child, the "moonchild" of the title, with the action moving between London, Paris and a villa in Naples. It was written in 1917 in New Orleans.

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Bookseller: The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 85257
Title: Moonchild A prologue.
Author: CROWLEY, ALEISTER:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Samuel Weiser Inc. 1970 1st thus
Keywords: Literature ALEISTER CROWLEY, Moonchild, A prologue, magical war, white lodge, black lodge, unborn child, London, Paris, Naples, first thus, 1970, dustwrapper, witchcraft, occult,

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