Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
CROWLEY'S COPY CROWLEY, ALEISTER. Mortadello; or the Angel of Venice: A Comedy. Square 8vo, original white buckram with gilt lion of St. Mark on front cover, spine rubbed and darkened, ends bumped, stains on covers; paper clip indentation in upper margin of pages xi-7, free endpapers browned. London: Barabbas and Company, 1912
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signed first edition of this five-act comedy in alexandrines; issue with the imprint of Barabbas and Company (instead of the typically seen Wieland and Co.) on the title. A small number of copies were printed with both titles, but we could find no reference to a copy with the Barabbas and Company title alone.
The half-title is inscribed and signed: "Aleister Crowley / Library Copy." An additional inscription in his hand on the verso reads "La passion religieuse de Levi Clef des grs Mystères p 123," referring to Eliphas Levi's influential occult work, of which Crowley published a translation as The Key of the Great Mysteries.