Second Hand / Antiquarian
The Education of Uncle Paul by Algernon Blackwood
Published: Macmillan and Co. Limited, London 1926
Condition: Good, no dust jacket. An ex-library book, from the Besant Memorial Library. No library plate or stamps, merely a handwritten reference number. Boards slightly worn, but fully intact, no significant bumps. Binding firm, pages clean and unmarked.
Unlike the supernatural stories for which he is well known, this is a novel is a more personal work on the subject of spiritual awakening.
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Ethel Archer (1885-1962), the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Sussex, and expelled from school at the age of fourteen for asking questions in Scripture class. In 1908 she married the aspiring artist Eugene Wieland, and lived with him in West London. The couple made the acquaintance of Aleister Crowley, joined his A∴A∴ magical organization, and set up a publishing company called Wieland and Co., to publish Crowley’s periodical The Equinox, as well as other texts, including Archer’s first poetry collection The Whirlpool (1911). She published two other books, Phantasy and Other Poems (1930) and the occult novel The Hieroglyph (1932).
This 32-page chapbook assembles together twelve poems never collected in the author’s lifetime, which originally appeared in such places as The Equinox and The Occult Review.
Paperback.