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[CROWLEY, Aleister] The Book of the Law, [technically called Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 To DCLXVI]
[CROWLEY, Aleister] The Book of the Law, [technically called Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 To DCLXVI]
[Nashville]: [Troll Publishing], 1980. First Edition Thus. Small hardcover (5.25 x 4.5 inches). xvii, [45] (text), [1] (comment). Silver and blue marble patterned boards with silver seal and title to front and silver stamped “Liber AL” to spine. Blue endpapers. Red square label of Parzival XI O.T.O. Foundation (with Eye of Horus in a triangle) affixed to center of what would be copyright page. Title page and all text in blue ink. A lovely production. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
This handsome edition of the Book of the Law was published by Marcelo Motta and his Society Ordo Templi Orientis and includes a slightly revised introduction.
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.