Deluxe edition limited to 20 copies only. The deluxe consists of two-colour foil blocking to casement on front and rear, and single foil blocking to ribbed spine, with leather label insert. The deluxe is dressed in green goat leather, has a book ribbon, and head and tail bands. This edition's endpapers are marbled as found in the previous Codex Althaeban Malik. Comes in a solander box with quarter Moroccan leather and marbled exterior. Included with each deluxe is a unique and original piece of artwork by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles.
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Codex Ad Limina marks a further expansion of themes addressed in Volume 2 of Book of the Black Dragon. In this volume the author delves into the role the Black Bull has as a totem for the sinistral horn daemon emissary. His role as an afflicted form in shadow brings the sorcerer to the point of his/her initiation into the Olde Companie of Cunning Folke. Not only does the Codex interpret the language being used for substantiating the relationship between the sorcerer and the Black Bull, but it follows this by guiding the reader through relevant ritual workings that prepare the practitioner for his/her eventual immersion.
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Antiquarian
Out of print first hardback edition, limited to 350 copies only. Published by Kamuret Press 2021.
Condition: Fine, unread copy. Extremely minor crease to top right dustwrapper, otherwise completely pristine.
Edited, annotated and introduced by Richard Kaczynski, this edition far surpasses that found in the Collected Works: red and black ink has been employed to capture the feel of the 1904 edition; a 50 page introduction by Crowley’s foremost biographer introduces the reader to the many themes to be found throughout the book; finally, copious end-notes further elucidate concepts and ideas in need of clarification.
From the introduction:
‘The Sword of Song is arguably the greatest story never told. It is a book of firsts: his first manifesto, his first talismanic book, his first mystical essays, his first nod to sexual mysteries, and an enticing preview of what was to come in The Book of the Law, the spirit-writing that would form the cornerstone of his philosophy’.