by Timothy d'Arch Smith
1991 128pages, 1869928172 £6.99/9.99 dollars pbk
For Aleister Crowley a book was a talisman and their every part right down to colour, dimension, and price was symbolic. He also used magical techniques to gain literary success--thus new editions of Crowley's writing multiply daily, tantalizing the bibliographer. All the more indispensable is this authoritative guide to his magical first editions. Timothy d'Arch Smith, widely acknowledged as a leading expert on Crowley and on underground literature, offers several shorter articles on Oxford's demonologist Montague Summers; R A Caton and his Fortune Press; Sexual prophet Ralph Chubb; Florence Farr; The British Library Private Case; and on the author himself. For this new edition, he also adds an extra chapter on Crowley.
'...one could hardly wish for a more stimulating guide... The London Magazine
'One of the more immediately striking things about the book is its gentle humour.' Time Out
by Francis King
80 pages 1869928202 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk
From the editor of The Grimoire of Armadel and author of Sexuality, Magick and Perversion, this is the story of an enigmatic 18th century magus whose work still influences the current generation. Francis Barrett was the first since the middle ages to compile a manual or 'grimoire' of magick. His The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer is widely read and still capable of providing insight. Francis King offers a fascinating picture of Francis Barrett, a man who lived on the frontier of technology, both in terms of the inner landscape and his pioneering experiments in balloon flight. It discusses his teachers, peers, and the subsequent progress of his disciples.
by Jean Overton Fuller
1990 270 pages 1869928121, First Pbk, 11 plates, 9.99 pounds/20 dollars
The classic biography of Victor Neuburg, poet, magician and lover of Aleister Crowley. Neuburg was Crowley's partner in magical rites in the desert and in rites even more dangerous and controversial. This is a document of one of this century's most creative magickal partnerships. Over a period of eight years it charts Neuburg's and Crowley's ground- breaking magical experiments in sexual magick, with Dee's Enochian system, and more. The author writes very much from Neuburg's point of view, but the result is a great deal more balanced than some other biographies. A good introduction to many of the key elements in Crowley's magical system.
'essential reading...' Chaos International
'a fascinating yet immensely sad story' Sunday Telegraph
by Snoo Wilson
1990 96 pages, 1869928-083, 6.99 pounds/9.99 dollars pbk
This is a play about the heretic Giordano Bruno, and a great read in its own right. In Rome, 1600, Bruno was burned by the Inquisition. He had been a wandering scholar, spending three years at the court of the heretic Queen Elizabeth I of England. His crime? His writings most dangerously hailed the sun as the centre of the solar system. More Light is set in heaven and brings together Bruno, the Pope, Elizabeth I, John Dee, Edward Kelly and Shakespeare in a sexually satisfying heavenly existence. The Pope attempts to drag Bruno back to earth in a play that is 'laced with wit and bizarre invention' (Milton Shulman, Evening Standard).
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'wholly original quality ...' Martin Hoyle Financial Times
'leaps through time and space, reality and morality, is visually stunning and dramatically compelling .. ' Madeleine Shaner B'nai B'rith Messenger
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