Crowley (Aleister) The Banned Lecture: Gilles de Rais, first edition, original stapled printed wrappers, small rust-marks around staples, else fine, preserve in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Yorke 94], small 8vo, P.R. Stephenson, [1930].

⁂ A rare piece of Crowley ephemera. Crowley had been due to lecture the Oxford University Poetry Society on the fifteenth century magician Gilles de Rais, only for it to be cancelled at the last minute, likely due to the controversy Crowley frequently generated in the press. Crowley swiftly had 1,000 copies of the present work printed and distributed on the streets of Oxford though few appear to have survived.