CROWLEY, Aleister and Marcelo MOTTA

The Equinox... Volume V, Numbers 1 to 4 [the complete set]

Canberra, Thelema Publishing Company, 1990 (second edition)/ 1975 (Number 1), and Nashville, Thelema Publishing Company, 1979, 1980 and 1981 (Numbers 2, 3 and 4: all first editions).

Quarto, four volumes, xxiv, 456, [2] (advertisements) pages (including the 65-page facsimile of the original manuscript of 'Liber Al') with 2 colour plates; vi, 404, [6] (half advertisements, half blank) pages with a few illustrations; xviii, 483, [3] (a blank and 2 advertisements) pages with a few illustrations; and xx, 695 pages.

Number 1: purple cloth with the dustwrapper; edges a little foxed; dustwrapper a little stained and chipped, with trifling loss to the hinge on the rear flap; Numbers 2 to 4: synthetic cloth with the dustwrappers; edges slightly marked; Number 2 has traces of paper residue on the front pastedown where a bookplate has been removed, and the spine of the dustwrapper is a little sunned; overall, an excellent set.

Individual titles on the books are 'The Commentaries of Al' (Number 1), 'The Chinese Texts of Magick and Mysticism' (Number 3), and 'Sex and Religion' (Number 4). There is a five-page editorial new to the second edition of Number 1. [4 items].