Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CROWLEY, ALEISTER. Moonchild: A Prologue. 8vo, original cloth, spine ends rubbed; 2 small light stains on fore edges; dust jacket after design by Beresford Egan (chipped in several places along top and bottom edges, tear across lower portion of spine panel with small piece missing). London, 1929

Additional Details

first edition of a novel about black and white magicians in modern-day London, containing thinly disguised portrayals of Crowley''s acquaintances. with: Prospectus for Crowley''s 1944 tarot treatise The Book of Thoth. Thin 4to, self wrappers. (London: Chiswick Press), nd. and: Hogg, Keith. 666: Bibliotheca Crowleyana. Catalogue of a unique Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Proof Copies, MSS., etc. by, about, or connected with Aleister Crowley, formed, and with an Introductory Essay, by Major-General J. F. C. Fuller. Thin square 8vo, original wrappers. Tenterden, [1966].