CROWLEY, Aleister

Thelema [in Greek]. The Holy Books of Thelema

York Beach, Samuel Weiser, 1983 (first edition).

Octavo, xlviii, 270 pages with numerous illustrations and a facsimile (65 pages) of Crowley's original holograph of 'The Book of the Law' (Liber XXXI).

Decorated cloth; small inkstamp of a wyvern in the centre of the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the dustwrapper with a light tide mark to the bottom edge of the rear panel.

The 'first published collection of the fourteen Holy Books received by Aleister Crowley. It could well be called the bible of Thelema.... A comprehensive preface by Hymenaeus Alpha, Caliph of the OTO, surveys the sensitive issues concerning the editorial handling of revealed material' (dustwrapper blurb).