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[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)
$295.00
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. A near fine copy in like dust jacket.
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.