Sword of Song
Aleister Crowley. Richard Kaczynski, editor. Sword of Song: Called by Christians The Book of the Beast. [London]: Kamuret, [2021]. First edition, one of 350 unnumbered copies.
Octavo. liv, 407 pages. Edited, annotated and introduced by Aleister Crowley’s foremost biographer, Richard Kaczynski. Printed in red and black throughout. Bound in publisher’s blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and publisher’s device to spine, matching blue endpapers, and blue reading ribbon. In unclipped illustrated dust jacket, designed by Maria Lindberg Bogdan.
From the introduction: ‘The Sword of Song is arguably the greatest story never told. It is a book of firsts: his [Crowley’s] first manifesto, his first talismanic book, his first mystical essays, his first nod to sexual mysteries, and an enticing preview of what was to come in The Book of the Law, the spirit-writing that would form the cornerstone of his philosophy’.
Rear board slightly bowed, else fine. FCB-831. Item #831Price: $300.00