Antiquarian / Second hand
First hardback edition limited to 333 hand-numbered copies. Published by Scarlet Imprint in 2008. Strikingly bound in turquoise cloth, gilt titling to spine, upper board elaborately decorated in gilt, black endpapers.
Condition: Some minor fading of the gilt on front cover. Otherwise a very good copy.
Comprises fourteen original and extensive essays which explore the Grimoires in passionate, informed and evocative pieces which create a unique testament to the vibrancy of the modern magickal current. The writers pursue knowledge, power and wisdom through the pages of: The Picatrix, The Goetia, or Lesser Key of Solomon, Four Books of Occult Philosophy, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Liber 231, Qutub, And the Grimoire itself. Includes essays by authors such as David Rankine, David Beth, Peter Grey and Donal Tyson.
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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’.