First edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies only, of which this is numbered 61. Octavo, pp., [vi], 296, [2] of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's olive green cloth; titled in gilt to spine and upper board; white end-papers. Blind stamp of the Theosophical Society Library, Edinburgh to front free end-paper and title-page; library shelf markers to foot of spine. Residual adhesive to foot of spine; white scuffs to upper board; shelf-wear to extremities. A very good copy. A novel published by Aleister Crowley's Equinox press, written by Crowley's friend, George Raffalovich (1880-1958). Raffalovich secured his friendship with Crowley after the Great Beast bailed him out following the disastrous purchase of a travelling circus. Raffalovich's earliest works of fiction, published following his rapid acquisition of English in 1908, were all supported or published by Crowley. The dedication page reads "To my Master I inscribe this the record of the early life of a future Magus." the dedicatee surely being Crowley. This is the earlier state of the book, before the unsold sheets were sold to the publisher Francis Griffiths, and without their sticker over the Equinox imprint to the title-page. Necessarily scarce.…

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Title: The History of a Soul: An Attempt at Psychology.
Author: Raffalovich, George.
Publisher: London; The Equinox, 1910.
Publication year: 1910
Edition: 1st Edition

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