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CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)

Lot 95
13.02.2025 10:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1362924
Lot 95 | CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)
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CROWLEY, Aleister (1875-1947)
Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., for the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1907.
First edition of a collection of spiritual prose and poetry: number 43 of 500 copies on handmade paper signed by the author. It is titled after the supposedly mystic Egyptian phrase 'Khabs Am Pekht', roughly translating as 'Light in Extension'. Crowley himself designed the distinctive maze-like front cover design. The book was clearly one of Crowley’s own favourite works; he wrote glowingly of it in his Confessions, in particular describing the final essay ‘The Stone of the Philosophers’ as being 'really beyond praise.'

Quarto (195 x 165mm). Half-title, title page printed in red and black, frontispiece photogravure portrait of Crowley by Aimee Dupont, signed by Crowley in lower margin, numerous diagrams in the text. Publisher's cream cloth with stylised geometric lettering blocked in gold on upper side, top edge gilt, otherwise untrimmed (cloth a little cockled on lower side). Provenance: Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate).
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