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[CROWLEY, Aleister (and others)] The Red Equinox (Includes Vol 1, Numbers. I-X, and Vol 3, Number I [Blue Equinox] - 11 Volumes Bound in 6)
[CROWLEY, Aleister (and others)] The Red Equinox (Includes Vol 1, Numbers. I-X, and Vol 3, Number I [Blue Equinox] - 11 Volumes Bound in 6)
London/Seattle: Mandrake Press/Holmes Publishing, 1992. First edition thus. Hardcovers. Quarto. Eleven volumes bound as six comprising the original ten numbers of Volume One (1909-13) and the “Blue” Equinox (1919)." Approximately 4500 pages in all. Deluxe Limited Edition. One of only 50 sets for sale in the United States. This set is No. 7 (each volume numbered as such). Beautifully bound in quarter red leather over marbled boards. Gilt titles and device to spines. All page edges are gilt. Each volume has a red ribbon page marker. Marbled endpapers. Volumes measure 7.5” x 10”. The slipcase has the matching red leather on the top and on the bottom, while the marbled paper (matching the boards of each volume) cover the sides and the full back. Illustratred with b&w and color plates, plus additional diagrams and drawings. Publisher's Note: "Plates for this set were made from the London First Edition and is exactly as issued, making this the only true facsimile of the First Edition; with all plates, color or otherwise." Laid into the first volume is a sheet from Holmes Publishing ("with compliments") and a small card signed by publisher J.D. Holmes. A fantastic book production. NOTE: This is a very heavy set of volumes weighing in at 25 pounds when packaged for shipping. A fine set in a fine slipcase.
Commonly referred to by Crowley as “The Standard Work of Reference in all Occult Matters” and “The Encyclopaedia of Initiation”, this set includes a a number of instructional essays on magick and the occult by Crowley and others. There is also a vast array of esoteric fiction, poetry, and book reviews. Essays and works under Crowley’s own name include: The Wizard Way, The Soldier and the Hunchback, The Temple of Solomon the King, The Herb Dangerous, John St. John, The Garden of Janus, Postcards to Probationers, Ave Adonai, Liber DCCCCLXIII - The Treasure House of Images, Pan to Artemis, The Thief-Taker, My Crapulous Contemporaries (No. IV - Wisdom While you Waite), The Pilgrim, The Blind Prophet, Liber CCCCXVIII (The Vision & The Voice), X-Rays on Ex-Probationers, Liber HHH, The Scorpion, Three Poems for Jane Cheron, The Rites of Eleusis, Liber Tsaddi, Liber Resh, Liber Cheth, Liber A’ash, Adonis, The Ghouls, A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Skrying of Sir Edward Kelley, Across the Gulf, Liber B Vel Magi, Liber Stellae Rubeae, Liber Astarte, Liber CCXXXI (Qliphoth), Energized Enthusiasm, The Ship, and many more by Crowley under his own name and under numerous pseudonyms. There are also contributions by Leila Waddell, Victor Neuburg, Captain Fuller, John Yarker, Ethel Archer, and more. A complete index and a list of pseudonyms are at the end of No. 10. No. 10 also includes the complete text of Eliphas Levi’s Key to the Mysteries.
This copy is from the collection of Thelemic author Robert C. Stein (1931 – 2024), who wrote "The Mystery of the Letters and The Tree of Life" and other works. Stein was a Professor Emeritus of Biology in the New York State University System, whose involvement in the study and practice of Thelema spanned three decades and travels in five continents.