Olla Anthology Sixty Years Song by Crowley Aleister (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Harris, Frieda (Jacket) (illustrator). Limited to 500 copies, hardcover, the binding is shaken with cracks starting between some of the sections, and the book has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, shelfwear to the edges with rubbing and faint soiling to the cloth, sunning to the spine, and foxing to the pages. Overall, a solid, Good copy in a Poor dust jacket, which has a significant loss to the tail of the spine and front cover that obscures the author's name, as well as several internal tape repairs to the worn spine ends, edges and corners, chips to the hinges and folds, sunning to the spine, and creasing with rubbing and areas of soiling to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available by request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Large format hardcover in brown cloth, front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt, portrait frontispiece by Augustus John, FINE condition. Also includes a partial dust jacket -- the plain back panel and flap and about 2/3 of the spine, included for completeness and not relevant to the pricing.

First edition. Selections from his poetry covering the years 1897-1946 published by the occult Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), of which Crowley was an influential member. In the rare Frieda Harris-designed dust jacket (Harris also illustrated his BOOK OF TOTH). One of only 500 copies. Quarto gilt-stamped brown cloth boards; frontispiece portrait by Augustus John; 128 pages. Very good or better with foxing to first and last few leaves and spine a little shaken; in a fair dust jacket with foxing, old tape shadows, small holes, creases and tears, and large chip taking out "O" in title on spine. Scarce in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Olla: An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song Great Britain, First Impressions Series, 1992. Limited Edition (copy No. 26 of 50). Folio, pp. 128, first title within floral border and vignette, second title reproduced from the first edition. Quarter black morocco, buckram over boards, marbled pastedowns. A reprint of Olla with an introduction by John Symonds and the latter's corrections in red pen to his preface. Olla is a limited edition of Crowley's poems (only 500 copies and 20 on mould-made paper), first published by the O.T.O. in 1946 in London with "a dust-jacket by Frieda Harris and a frontispiece by Augustus John, R.A.". As Symonds states in his foreword, "I played a small part in the production of Olla for I read the proofs, and I urged the Master to expunge one poem which I thought in bad taste: he agreed to remove it. And I played a larger part in the sale of the work", a.e.g. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. London: Published by the O.T.O. / Printed in England by W.A. Guy Ltd., [ca. 1946]. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Quarto. 128 pp. Frontis. Publisher's dust jacket designed by Lady Frieda Harris, "artist executant" of the Thoth tarot deck. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt with Crowley's "Mark of the Beast" to front. OCLC gives 1946 and 1947 as publication dates; scarce in dust jacket. Jacket chipped at spine ends and corners, with a couple long closed tears from top edge on front and rear panel and smaller tears along spine with tape repair to verso, along with a few spots of faint dampstaining at fore-edge and tail, and some general smudging and scuffing to surface. Boards worn at extremities with minor fraying. Binding gives a little but overall is holding soundly. Interior unmarked. Very Good in a Good or better dust jacket.