Lot 134
Crowley (Aleister) The Winged Beetle, first edition, one of 300 copies on handmade paper, from an edition limited to 350, Privately Printed, 1910
Hammer Price: £1,600
Description
Crowley (Aleister) The Winged Beetle, first edition, one of 300 copies on handmade paper, from an edition limited to 350, "Glossary of Obscure Terms" tipped onto p.228, light browning to endpapers, original boards, very light sunning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, t.e.g., others uncut, a near-fine copy, preserved in custom calf-backed drop-front box, [Yorke 33], 8vo, Privately Printed, 1910.
⁂ Rare, especially in such superb condition. The glossary of terms is used to reveal a hidden blasphemy in the third stanza of the dedication.
Description
Crowley (Aleister) The Winged Beetle, first edition, one of 300 copies on handmade paper, from an edition limited to 350, "Glossary of Obscure Terms" tipped onto p.228, light browning to endpapers, original boards, very light sunning to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, t.e.g., others uncut, a near-fine copy, preserved in custom calf-backed drop-front box, [Yorke 33], 8vo, Privately Printed, 1910.
⁂ Rare, especially in such superb condition. The glossary of terms is used to reveal a hidden blasphemy in the third stanza of the dedication.
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