Books and Writers

Surname : All | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Edward Aleister Crowley

Male : Novelist, poet and author of books on the occult & witchcraft. He climbed in the Alps and led expeditions to K2 and Kanchenjunga in 1902 & 1905 respectively. Founded his own order, the Silver Star, and was subsequently expelled from Italy after rumours of drugs, orgies and death rites
Nationality : English Date of Birth : 1875 Date of Death : 1947 Age : 72

Pseudonyms : H D Carr

Education : Cambridge
1898-1900
Aceldama : A Place to Bury Strangers In
(1898 PP by Leonard Smithers) - 88. + 10 Large Paper
[Written by 'a gentleman of the university of Cambridge']
The Tales of Archais : A Romance in Verse
(1898 Kegan Paul) - 250 copies
]Written by 'a gentleman of the university of Cambridge']
Jezebel
(1898 PP at Chiswick Press) - 40 copies + 10 copies on Japanese vellum
White Stains
(1898 PP in Amsterdam) - 100. As George Archibald Bishop
Songs of the Spirit
(1898 Kegan Paul) - 200 + 50 signed & Numbered
Jephthath & other Mysteries
(1899 Kegan Paul)
An Appeal to the American Republic
(1899 Kegan Paul) - 500

1901-1905
The Mother's Tragedy
(1901 PP) - 500
The Soul of Osiris
(1901 Kegan Paul) - 500 + 6 copies on India Paper
Carmen Saeculare
(1901 Kegan Paul) - 450. As St. E. A. of M. and S.
Tannhauser
(1902 Kegan Paul)
The God-Eater : A Tragedy of Satire
(1903 Watts) - 300
Summa Spes
(1903 PP)
Berashith : An Essay in Ontology with some remarks on Ceremonial Mahic
(1903 PP, Paris) - 200
Ahab and Other Poems
(1903 PP at Chiswick Press) - 150 + 10 on Japanese vellum
Alice : An Adultery
(1903 PP) - 100
The Star and the Garter
(1903 Watts) - 50
The Sword of Song
(1904 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth) - 100
The Argonauts
(1904 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth) - 200
In Residence : The Don's Guide to Cambridge
(1904 Elijah Johnson, Cambridge)
The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King
(1904 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth)
- 200 + 10 copies on Japanese Vellum
Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden
(c1904 PP, Paris)
Why Jesus Wept : A Study of Society and the Grace of God
(1904 PP)
The Works of Aleister Crowley
(1905-7 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth) - 3 vols
Oracles : The Biography of an Art
(1905 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth)
Orpheus : A Lyrical Legend
(1905 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth) - 2 vols
Rosa Mundi : A Poem
(1905 Renouard, Paris) - as H D Carr

1906-1910
Gargoyles : Being Strangely Wrought Images of Life & Death
(1906 Society for Propagation of Religious Truth) - 300 + 50 on Handmade Paper
Rosa Coeli
(1907 Chswick Press) - as H D Carr
Rosa inferni
(1907 Chswick Press) - as H D Carr
Rodin in Rhyme : Seven Lithographs by Clot from the Water-Colours of Auguste Rodin
(1907 PP at Chiswick Press) - 488
Amphora
(1908 PP) (1908 Burns & Oates, London)
Knox Om Pax : Essays in Light
(1907 Walter Scott for Society for Propagation of Religious Truth)
- 500 + 10 on Japanese Vellum & 500 on handmade paper
Clouds Without Water
(1909 PP) - by Rev C Verey
The Holy Books
(c1909 PP) - 3 vols
The World's Tragedy
(1910 PP, Paris) - 100
The Rites of Eleusis
(1910 The Equinox)
Bagh-I-Muattar, The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shira
(1910 PP) - 100
The Winged Beetle
(1910 PP) - 250 + 50 signed
Ambergris : A Selection from the Poems
(1910 Elkin Mathews 3/6)

1911-1920
Hail Mary
(1911 Wieland)
Book Four : Part One
(1911 Wieland) - as Frater Perdurabo
Book Four : Part Two
(1912 Wieland) - as Frater Perdurabo
Mortadello, or the Angel of Venice
(1912 Wieland)
The High History of Good Sir Palamedes
(1912 Wieland)
Household Goods : A Comedy
(1912 PP : Pallanza)
Liber CCCXXXIII The Book of Lies
(1913 Wieland, London)
Chicago May
(1914 PP in NY)
Liber II : The Message of the Master Therion
(1916 PP)
The Law of Liberty : A Tract on Therion that is a Magus
(1917 OTO) - single sheet folded

1921-1930
The Diary of a Drug Fiend
(1922 Collins) (1923 Dutton US)
Songs for Italy
(NP, & nd. 1923 2nd Expanded Edition) - 15pp stapled
(Trans) Little Poems in Prose by Baudelaire (1928 Titus, Paris) - 800
Magick in Theory and Practice
(1929 Published for Subscribers only, Paris) - 4 vols
The Spirit of Solitude : An Autobiography
(1929 Mandrake Press, London) - 2 vols
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
(1929 Mandrake Press) - 2 vols. 800 (1969 Cape US)
The Stratagem & Other Stories
(1929 Mandrake Press)
Moonchild : A Prologue
(1929 Mandrake Press)
Offered for £360 in 1999
The Banned Lecture : Gilles de Rais
(1930 Stephensen)

After 1931
The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government
(c1937 OTO) - as Comte de Fenix
The Book of the Law
(1938 OTO)
The Heart of the Master
(1938 OTO) - as Khaled Khan
Little Essays Towards Truth
(1938 PP by the OTO)
England, Stand Fast
(1939 PP by OTO) - single folded sheet
Liber XXI : Khing Kang King, the Classic of Purity
(1939 OTO)
Eight Lectures on Yoga
(1939 OTO) - as Mahatma Guru Sri Parahamsa Shivaji
Temperance : A Tract for the Times
(1939 PP by OTO) - single folded sheet
Thumbs Up : A Pentagram-a Pentacle to Win the War
(1941 OTO) - 100
La Gauloise-Song of the Fighting French
(1942 PP) - single folded sheet
Fun of the Fair
(1942 OTO)
The City of God : A Rhapsody
(1943 OTO) - 200
The Book of Truth : A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians
(1944 OTO) - 200 signed
Olla : An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song
(1946 OTO) - 500 + 20 copies on Handmade Paper
The Last Ritual
(1947 PP)
Cammell, CR
(1951 Richards Press)
777
(1952 London) - 12 copies in vellum
777 Revised Vel Prolegomena Symbolica : A reprint of 777
(1955 Neptune Press, London) - 1100
(Trans) The Key of the Mysteries by Eliphas Levi 91959 Rider)
A Spring Snowstorm in Wastdale
(1974 Sceptre) - Ltd Ed 150
The Vindication of Nietzsche
(1979 Morton Press) - 16pp booklet
Magick in Theory and Practice
(1991 Castle Books, NJ)

READING
John Symonds : The Great Beast - The Life of Aleister Crowley
(1951 Rider, London)
Charles Richard Cammell : Aleister Crowley - The Man, the Mage The Poet
(1951 Richards Press, London)
(Eds) John Symonds & Kenneth Grant : The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1971)
John Symonds : The Great Beast : The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley
(1971 Macdonald)
Alan Burnett-Rae : Aleister Crowley - A Memoir of 666
(1971 Victim Press)
Francis King : The Magical World of Aleister Crowley
John Symonds : The King of the Shadow Realm - Aleister Crowley, His Life and Magic
(1989 Duckworth)
Martin Booth : A Magick Life - A Biography of Aleister Crowley
(2000 Hodder & Stoughton £20)

Related Writers

Witchcraft