first edition Hardcover
1962 · West Point, CA
by Crowley, Aleister
West Point, CA: Thelema Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 219pp. Quarto [28 cm] Red cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait. With moisture damage to the boards, a previous owner's blindstamp on rear free endpaper, and a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In the dust jacket, with a loss from the head of the spine and the surrounding area of the panels, and areas of moisture staining to the panels ( a bit more so to the rear panel). Despite these flaws, the jacket still presents relatively nicely. With the tipped-in errata slip. A book which conveys the essence of (truncated)