Occult & Esoterica
[STARR, Martin P.] The Unknown God. W. T. Smith and the Thelemites (Teitan Press)
[STARR, Martin P.] The Unknown God. W. T. Smith and the Thelemites (Teitan Press)
Bolingbrook, IL: The Teitan Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lamen to upper front panel. Spine titled in gilt. 416 pages, b/w photographs. Former owner's name neatly inked (small) to top right of front free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. NOTE: A new edition of this book is scheduled to be published next year (May 2024) by Oxford University Press.
The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Others covered here are Jack Parsons, C.F. Russell, Jane Wolfe, Max Schneider, Louis Culling, Grady McMurtry, and many more. Much of the source material that Starr worked with came directly from Smith's wife, Helen Parsons Smith.