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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) (Booklegger/Albion)
[CROWLEY, Aleister] The Book of the Law (technically called Liber AL vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII =418 to DCLXVI) (Booklegger/Albion)
No place [UK]: Booklegger / Albion, No date [1971]. First Edion thus. Original buff wrappers, titles lettered in red. Octavo. Unpaginated [36pp]. With the "Ex Collectione" plate of Nicholas C. Bishop-Culpeper affixed to inside front over. Some very light edge wear to covers otherwise a near fine copy. Uncommon.
Though a pirated edition, this is one of the first modern republications of Crowley's "The Book of the Law" - it preceded the editions by Helen Parsons Smith, as well as others. The text appears to be duplicated from a (then) modern typewritten master and is believed to be taken from the 1942 US edition. There are advertisements at the end of the volume for the Unicorn Bookshop which was run by Bill Butler, suggesting that perhaps he was responsible for this pirated edition.
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.