Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback copy in maroon boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 436pp. Diagrams throughout. Untrimmed page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light fading to dustjacket spine. (22/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Magick in Theory and Practice. The Master Therion (Aleister Crowley). Castle Books. 1st American Edition. n.d., (consensus leans 1960-1970). BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law'. This is a 1st American hardcover reprint (c.1960-c.1970) of the original text (c.1929). The book was originally published by a private press in France. SUMMARY: "Aleister Crowley, known to many as the 'Black Magician', possessed a multi-faceted character. In this present work he reveals the scholar who is repelled by the heavily practical scientific minds in the world. He became aware of the tremendous need for a new concept of human life. As Blavatsky called her revelation 'Theosophy', Crowley identified his as 'Magick'. He actually spend the remainder of his life trying to impress others with Magick which is the art and science of causing changes to occur, in conformity with one's own will. Just as Hypnotism controls the brain centers to affect new physical changes, so does Magick effect our five senses to create for us a new reality.To determine where your own sense modalities are affected, read how Crowley, in this -- the major work of a very productive lifetime, distills for you the complexities and intricacies of Magick to useful everyday proportion. Illustrated by Crowley with graphs and charts, this volume originally printed in Paris in limited edition, has long been out of print. Here is a complete reproduction of this long-sought after work." TABLE OF CONTENTS: Hymn to Pan -- Introduction -- The Magical Theory of the Universe -- The Principles of Ritual -- The Formulae of the Elemental Weapons -- The Formula of Tetragrammaton -- The Formula of Alhim, and that of Alim -- The Formula of I.A.O. -- The Formula of the Neophyte -- The Formula of the Holy Graal -- Of Equilibrium -- Of Silence and Secrecy -- Of the Gestures -- Of Our Lady Babalon -- Of the Bloody Sacrifice -- Of the Banishings -- Of the Consecrations -- Of the Oath; Of the Charge to the Spirit -- Of the Invocation -- Of the Licence to Depart -- Of Clairvoyance and of the Body of Light -- Of Dramatic Rituals -- Of the Eucharist and of the Art of Alchemy -- Of Black Magic. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet and mystic. He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained much notoriety during his lifetime and was infamously dubbed "The Wickedest Man in the World." PUBLISHED: n.d., [1960]. Castle Books (New York, NY) 1st American Edition. 436 pages. Some illustrations & diagrams CONDITION: VG. Dust Jacket: Good. This is a vintage item in used condition. Scarce in Dust Jacket. DJ is unclipped with original price of $10.00 present. Numerous signs of wear and age to DJ, including noticeable chipping and loss of artwork. Scuffing, tearing and toning all present. Wrapped in protective Mylar. Beige boards feature black writing on spine. Edgewear and bumping to edges and corners. Pen marks to bottom edge with discoloration to top edge. Former owner name and date written on endpaper. Book is age-toned, but free of writing. Book is tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Possibly the first American edition, or at least a very early reprint, in the required blue cloth with gilt lettering. 8vo. xxvii, 436pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's blue top edge stain. Head and tail bands. Several quite small areas of tape residue marking to the free endpapers. A very good copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the spine panel ends and at one or two corner tips. There is some considerable debate about the order of these assorted undated Castle Books editions, the first of which marked the first US edition of a text originally published in Paris in 1929. This example would appear to conform to the requirements of the first edition but it is not possible to ascertain this for absolute certain.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Rare Occult title, 1st printing in sky blue cloth, no ISBN. In very good DJ, price clipped. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. DJ lightly worn at edges.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First edition, first issue. 2 volumes. xxxii; 122; 123-205pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Red and black printed wraps. Universal hexagram printed on the front wraps. Worn. Front wrap of part III completely detached, but present. Text block of second volume completely detached from the wraps, and split at p. 187 (the only thing holding the two portions of the text block together are two tiny threads). Brief notations in pen on the front wraps. Color plate loose, but present in the first section. Bookplate of Premel el Adaros on the verso of the front wraps. The Kabir Premel el Adaros (1894-?) was the author and/or co-author of "Transcendent-science or, the Science of Self-Knowledge," "Things Kept Secret from the Foundation of the World," "The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga," "The Book of the Secret Word and the Higher Way to Fortune," and "Artaahancarasya, Or The Force of 'I.' Purporting to be the Unveilment of All Oriental Mysteries." Premel el Adaros, later Swami Brahmavidya was the founder of the Society of Transcendent Science in Chicago, and the president of the First Church of Hindu Spiritual Science, Chicago. O-XXI. The first two sections of four sections which form Part 3 of Crowley's four-part magnum opus. "Book Four" opens with Crowley's most famous teaching: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Contents in these sections include: The Principles of Ritual; The Formula of Tetragrammaton; Of Silence and Secrecy: and of the Barbarous Names of Evocation; Of the Bloody Sacrifice and Matters Cognate; Of Black Magick: of the Main Types of the Operations of Magick Art: and of the Powers of the Sphinx (with a small section concerning necromancy). Crowley's "Magick: Liber ABA, Book Four" is considered one of the most complete and visionary works on the practice of magick ever written.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paris, Printed at Lecram Press [Privately Published by The author], [1929 and 1930, first issue of the first edition]. Quarto, four sections paginated continuously, comprising xxxii, 436 pages with numerous illustrations plus a colour plate depicting the lamen (magical pendant) of the author (tipped in on page 1), a black and white plate of the signs of the grades (loosely inserted between pages 374 and 375), and a colophon leaf in the first and last sections. Overlapping salmon-pink thick textured wrappers lettered and decorated in black on the front panels; all edges uncut; spines a little sunned and rubbed; head of two joints (and the foot of one of them) cracked but stabilised; some covers slightly marked; trifling loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of five leaves at the beginning of the first section, and the top margin of about ten leaves and the rear cover of the last section (with slight and inoffensive surface loss to some covers); minimal signs of age and use; a very good set, rare in any condition. Crowley was dissatisfied with the quality of the binding and the colour plate of this first issue of the first edition, and the bulk of the print-run was trimmed and bound up as one volume in cloth, minus the colour plate, and with a variant title leaf. It lists the author as both The Master Therion and Aleister Crowley, omits the subtitle shown above, and gives a publication date of 1929, which is when just the first section was printed. [4 items].

FIRST EDITION, VERY SCARCE. Published for subscribers only. Super 8vo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, xxxiv + 436 pp., VG (moderate soiling to boards & spine, light rubbing & scuffing to boards, sl fading to spine, light bruising to edges & extrems, teacup stain to front board, light to moderate tanning/soiling & sl foxing to fore & bottom edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sm label residue to base of front pastedown, 2x minor closed tears to terminals, printer's device to tp, sporadic light foxing throughout, minor adhesive residue to gutters of pgs xvi-xvii, moderate marginalia in pencil).