Aleister Crowley P R Stephensen (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Paperback. Edgewear to top and bottom of corner of cover and first 7 pages, Previous owner's name on cover page but otherwise sharp, attractive copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1970. Light wear to wraps, light age tone (see scan). Crisp, and Gently read, if at all, binding remains Extremely tight. Internals Clean, Unmarked. Occult bookstore sticker to half title. Very Good+ Indeed. Second Edition, revised & enlarged. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait. 8vo size - 8" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Mandrake Press Ltd., 1930. "Being a Study of the Documentary Evidence Relating to a Campaign of Personal Vilification Unparalleled in Literary History". The usual extremity fade to wraps (see scan), some extremity wear, mottling, but spine remains intact and uncommon thus. Square, Sewn binding Very Tight and Crisp. Some spotting to edges, ends, otherwise internally Clean and Unmarked. A Very Good+ copy of this fragile title. [Yorke 106.]. First Edition. Soft Cover, Sewn. Very Good+. 8vo - 8½" tall.

First editions, including 9 presentation copies, most inscribed by the publisher; 14 vols (complete), small 8vo (15.8 x 11.6 cm); slight age-toning, minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's cloth-backed gold and black snakeskin-patterned boards, paper title labels to spine lettered in black, light shelf-wear, with the pictorial dust-jackets, spines darkened, some soiling to panels, slight edge-wear, closed tear to front panel of Love One Another, else a very good set housed in a black cloth slipcase. The complete set of The Mandrake Booklets in the original dustjackets, published by the short-lived but notable Mandrake Press. The Mandrake Press was a small British press founded by Edward Goldston and P.R. Stephensen in 1929. In 1930 the company faced financial problems and a consortium led by Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press Ltd to take it over. The consortium was likewise unsuccessful, and the company was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D.H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Cecil Roth, and more. Included in the fourteen-volume set are seven publisher's presentation copies inscribed in the hand of P.R. Stephensen: 'Sadie Carp with compliments from the publishers', and an advance copy of Thomas Burke's The Bloomsbury Wonder with a typed letter from the publisher loosely inserted. Additionally, The Smiling faces is inscribed by the author: 'To Sadie Carp from Brinsley Macnamara with very kind regards 17th Oct. 1929'. Further, there is an author's presentation copy of Love One Another inscribed thus: 'Sadie Carp. From Edgell Rickwood 29/10/29. Take his advice'.

Helios Books/ Ordo Templi Orientis Sydney 2007, third edition, revised and enlarged. Card covers, illustrated, bibliography, works, 192pp. Very good. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.