Buy this book on-line CROWLEY, ALEISTER: : MOONCHILD: A PROLOGUELONDON.MANDRAKE PRESS,1929. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[True 1st edn in the book's ORIGINAL bds and not recased,rebound - as it was genuinely and originally published without alteration.] VG.Obviously second-hand,but no owner inscrptn,contents bright,tight and complete in all respects,with light sporadic foxing internally and free endpapers [front+rear] slightly darkened. There are some pages with some creases/ wrinkles which I suspect were part of the actual production process,as they occur to same top edge and corner in several signatures - they are not what I'd call intentional "dog-ear" reading creases - where a reader turns over a corner as a marker.Usual wear+tear and shelf-wear from passage of time,i.e slight,light rubbing to corners,slight bumping with reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip,and two bumps/indentations to top edges (as if someone had tied string around the boards and tightened it?). Top+fore-edges both aged and browned - as usual/normal - lightly affecting page edges,fore-edge has a small splash mark to it.Publisher's original dark green cloth boards with no fading to spine/backstrip or boards,a couple of marks to rear board but overall,generally clean; bright,non-oxidised,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip.UK,8vo HB,1st edn,v-viipp+ 9-355pp includes half-title+title pages, author's note,contents list,and 23 chapters.
A Private press publication and very,very scarce - a low print run of about 2,500.
CROWLEY,'ALEISTER' (really Edward Alexander)[1875-1947],a diabolist and a bad but prolific British poet/author; he claimed to be the Beast from the Book of Revelation.A legendary cult figure, notorious for his celebrations of Black Magic rites.He joined the Order of the Golden Dawn,a group of theosophists involved in Cabbalistic magic.One of his few occult fiction titles.
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