Early Poetic Works (Deluxe Edition) by Aleister Crowley
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Deluxe Edition – Aleister Crowley’s Cambridge Poetry (1895–1898)
Published by Kamuret Press in 2019
This sumptuous deluxe edition presents a remarkable collection of Aleister Crowley’s early poetic works, written during his formative years as a Cambridge undergraduate (1895–1898). Beautifully produced and strictly limited, this volume offers collectors and scholars a rare glimpse into the literary and emotional world of the young Crowley — before he became the most influential occultist of the twentieth century.
Full-bound in the finest Nigerian black goatskin
Spine foil-blocked in gold with five raised bands
Rounded and backed binding
Decadent purple colour plan-end papers
Purple and white headbands
Purple ribbon marker
Royal Quarto format
304 pages
16 pages of photographs (many previously unpublished) featuring Crowley, Jerome Pollitt, Aubrey Beardsley, Leonard Smithers and others
Also includes a previously unpublished facsimile of one of Jerome Pollitt’s photographic calling cards.
Though Crowley is celebrated as a giant of modern esotericism, comparatively little attention has been paid to his Cambridge years — a period in which he wrote and privately published a significant body of verse.
This anthology gathers four early works:
Aceldama: A Place to Bury Strangers In
Jezebel and Other Tragic Poems
Songs of the Spirit
The Tale of Archais: A Romance in Verse
These poems explore two themes that would shape Crowley’s life and legend:
his intense and ultimately doomed love affair with actor and female impersonator Jerome Pollitt, and his first serious steps toward the occult sciences.
Homosexual love and spiritual yearning intertwine throughout these verses, revealing a young poet influenced by the Decadent and Symbolist movements. Echoes of Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Symons and A. C. Swinburne can be felt in these pages — alongside the unmistakable voice of a writer already pushing against social and moral boundaries.
This edition is both a scholarly contribution and a finely executed work of bookcraft — ideal for serious collectors of Crowley, fin-de-siècle literature, LGBTQ literary history, and the occult revival of the late nineteenth century.
An exceptional volume for the discerning bibliophile.
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Smyth-sewn and bound in soft Italian imitation leather;
Printed in black and red on heavy octavo Quran paper;
Rounded corners and red page edges on all sides;
A black double-sided satin ribbon marker;
Two-column format with a 10pt Roman typeface;
Cross-references between all "Class A" texts;
Brand-new critical apparatus to Libri CCXX and CDXVIII;
A legible reproduction of the holograph MS of Liber Legis;
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The Magical Writings of W.B. Yeats by John Michael Greer (ed)
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Deluxe hardback edition, limited to 500 copies only.
Discover the esoteric writings of occultist and poet William Butler Yeats, in a new collection of his lesser-known magical essays W. B. Yeats is celebrated globally for his contributions to poetry and Irish nationalism. However, his engagement with the occult circles of
the late 19th and early 20th centuries have passed largely unappreciated. A member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later drafting his own system for a Celtic magical order, Yeats wrote prolifically on magical philosophy, mystical symbolism, and the
occult experience.
In this new anthology, John Michael Greer presents six of Yeats’ occult writings that have the most to offer the operative mage. From an analysis of the Golden Dawn System, to an investigation of the relationship between folklore and the paranormal experience to occult
philosophy, to an outline of Yeats’ own proposed magical order (The Castle of Heroes) that draws on the symbolism of nature, this collection is a much-needed addition to the occult canon. It concludes with Yeats’ most famous work of esoteric writing, the complete text of the original 1925 edition of A Vision. Written in a series of automatic writing sessions with his wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, this revolutionary essay delves into innovative system that explores human personality, occult philosophy, cycles of history, the afterlife, and the symbolic structures from which all four arise and interleaf.
Other essays included are Magic; Witches and Wizards and Irish Folk- Lore; Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places; Per Amica Silenta Lunae; and Hodos Camelionis.
Edited and annotated, and complete with a new introduction by John Michael Greer, The Magical Writings of W.B. Yeats preserves vital knowledge from the esoteric tradition, and offers the modern magician fresh guidance and perspective from one of the most important occultists of the last century.