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[WOLFE, Jane] Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 - 1923 (Signed, Deluxe Edition of 31 Copies)
[WOLFE, Jane] Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 - 1923 (Signed, Deluxe Edition of 31 Copies)
With Commentary by Aleister Crowley; Compiled and Introduced by Dr. David Shoemaker
Sacramento: The College of Thelema of Northern California, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated [210pp]. Deluxe edition limited to 31 hand-numbered copies, this being No. 23. SIGNED by David Shoemaker on limitation page. Bound in full black leather with gilt titles to front and spine. Black silk-like patterned endpapers. Frontispiece photo of Jane Wolfe. Some very light handling wear to leather covers with a few minute gilt specks that can be seen in the right light. Still a beautiful, near fine copy and quite scarce in this deluxe edition.
A fascinating look into the training undertaken by Jane Wolfe, a student of Aleister Crowley, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, Sicily. This book collects the bulk of Wolfe's surviving diary entries from Cefalu, most of which were typed, complete with handwritten commentary from Crowley on many pages. The diary is presented in grayscale facsimile format.
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.