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OLLA:
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ANTHOLOGY OF
SIXTY
YEARS OF
SONG
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Olla:
An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song. |
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20
copies printed on pre-war mould-made paper.3
Top cut and gilt.3
Bound in quarter brick-red/brown native-dyed Niger
leather with patterned boards in a four-color Egyptian
design.2
The Egyptian-patterned paper was left over from
Crowley's Book of Thoth.13
Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.8
Spine has two raised bands and is stamped in gilt vertically down
the spine ‘OLLA
ALEISTER CROWLEY’.2
11” x 8 1/2”.2 |
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500 copies printed on machine-made paper.1
Pages have all edges cut.3
Bound in brown or dark green cloth.9
Upper cover stamped in gilt ‘OLLA | [emblem of the
Beast] | ALEISTER CROWLEY’.2 NOTE: The “Mark of the
Beast” sigil is printed upside down on the cover.4
Spine stamped in gilt vertically down spine ‘OLLA
ALEISTER CROWLEY’.2
Dust jacket in black and white by Frieda Harris.1
11 1/16” x 8 1/2”.2 |
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Publisher: |
Ordo
Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).3 |
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Printer: |
W. A. Guy
Ltd, High Street, Hastings.3 |
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Published At: |
121
Adelaide Road, London, N.W.3.3 |
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Date: |
22
December 1946, 10.54 a.m.3 |
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Edition: |
First
edition. |
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Pages: |
128.1 |
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Price: |
Priced at
15 shillings for state (b).3
Extra
copies of state (a) that were not distributed by Crowley to his
friends were offered for sale for Ten Guineas.3 |
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Remarks: |
Crowley
completed Olla on 20 May 1946.11
Crowley had
originally entitled the book: Olla: A Book of
Many Cities. Each poem would put its author in a new
place, that is, an old place, a memory that was not a memory
when it was made.10
An alternative
title for the book had been The Book of Tears.12
Has a portrait of Aleister Crowley
executed by Augustus John during a visit in July 1946 as a
frontispiece.1
The publication address [121 Adelaide Road, London, N.W.3] is
that of John Symonds' London flat.2
Crowley had 50
prospectuses printed and distributed and yielded his first
pre-publication sale on 11 December 1946.6
Distribution:
State (a)
—One copy went to Karl and Sascha Germer with an
inscription by Crowley which read ‘To my dearest and best of
friends Karl and Sascha with all my fondest love from Aleister
Crowley. June 10 ‘47 e.v.’5
—One
copy went to Frieda Harris with the inscription ‘To my dearly
beloved sister from Aleister Crowley June 7 ‘47 e.v’ (This copy
currently resides in the Harry Ransom Center, University of
Texas, Austin, Texas, Call Number
PR 6005 R7 O5)
—One copy
went to Ray Burlingame with an
inscription by Crowley which read ‘To my well loved Roy,
Mildred, + Laylah Burlinghame from Aleister Crowley June 7 ‘47.’8
—One
copy went to Alexander Watt. It was given to Watt by Karl Germer
in the Fall of 1949 and currently resides in the W.D. Jordan
Special Collection, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Call Number
Watt BF1439.W37tno.108)
State
(b)
—One copy went to Karl and Sascha Germer with
an inscription by Crowley which read ‘To Karl and Sascha an
ordinary copy to amuse ‘em while the h.m.p. one is being
bound—Love Aleister’5
—One copy went to Clifford Bax.7
—One copy went to Vermond Symonds.7
—One copy went to the curator and writer James Laver.7
—Michael Houghton of the Atlantic Bookshop agreed to buy fifty
copies.7 |
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Contents: |
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1. |
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Epigrams |
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(1)
“Who Loves the Truth” — München |
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(2)
Optimist — Washington D.C. |
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2. |
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My First
Poem — Cambridge, England |
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The Happy
Man — Mexico, D.F. |
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The Tyler
— Cambridge, England |
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The
Purple Mandarin — Yung Chang |
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On Garret
Hostel Bridge — Cambridge, England |
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The
Dynast — Great Eastern Erg |
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An Oath —
Marseilles |
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Styx —
Copenhagen |
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10. |
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The Jolly
Barber — Naples |
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The
Balloon — Llyn Idwal Farm |
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Prayer at
Sunset — Tali Fu |
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Penelope
— Hango |
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Panacea —
Hastings |
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15. |
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On
Waikiki Beach — Waikiki |
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Knight
Takes Bishop, Check ! — Stockholm |
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The Arhan
— Akyab |
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The
Jungle of Elizabeth Arden — Chicago |
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La Verge
— Sousse |
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20. |
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Pacific
Surf — Oahu |
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Figure
Genethliacal — Rangoon |
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22. |
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On the
Mindoon Chong — On the Mindoon Chong |
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The Owl —
Cefalû |
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24. |
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In Vera
Cruz Harbor — Vera Cruz |
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Puss-in-Boots — El Oued |
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Hong Kong Harbour — Hong Kong Harbour |
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Rosa
Decidua —
Coulsdon Park |
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The
Spring of Dirce — 3-3 — Paris |
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Kali —
Kalighat |
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A Slice
of Mortadello — Café Riche Paris |
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Almira —
Detroit |
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El
Fatihah (From the Arabic) — Mish |
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Reasoner
and Rimer — Heidelburg |
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The Eyes
of Pharaoh — Al Kahira |
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The
Beauty and the Bhikkhu — Kandy, Ceylon |
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The
King-Ghost — China |
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Beri-Beri
— The Inland Sea |
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The
Sevenfold Sacrament — Montigny-sur-Loing |
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Forty
Years On — Brighton |
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Dionysus
— Boleskine |
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In My
Harem — Fontainebleau |
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42. |
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Sarcoma
of the Tibia — New York |
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43. |
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Sunset of
Romance — Tunis |
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44. |
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The
Jealous Patriot — Richmond, Surrey |
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White
Hope — London |
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The Tent
— W’aint t’ Aissha |
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Verses
for an Antichristmas Card — Chipping Campden |
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48. |
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Happy
Dust |
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Logos —
Hastings |
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The
Baboon — Tolga |
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The Camel
— Rawal Pindi |
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Canoe
Song — Oesopus Island, Hudson River |
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Epithalamium instead of a Present — Maidenhead |
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54. |
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At
Touggourt |
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The
Return of Messalina — Rome |
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L’Etincelle — Querouaille |
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The
Secret — Moscow |
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Song of
the Regular Fellow — Baltoro Glacier Camp XI |
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La Gitana
— Granada |
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60. |
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The Bean
Pedlar — Palm Groves beyond Nefta |
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Thanatos
Basileos — Hastings |
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The
Garden of Janus — Da’leh-ad-Din (A Mountain near
Bou-Saada) |
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63. |
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Hymn to
Pan — Moscow |
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Author’s
Working
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Other
Known
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Bibliographic
Sources: |
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1. |
Gerald
Yorke,
“A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley”
(Expanded and Corrected by Clive Harper from Aleister
Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism:
Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, Keith
Richmond, editor, The Teitan Press, York Beach, ME,
2011, p. 48. |
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2. |
Dianne Frances
Rivers, A Bibliographic List with
Special Reference To the Collection at the University of
Texas, Master of Arts Thesis, The University
of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, pp. 150-151. |
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3. |
Personal observation of the item. |
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4. |
J.
Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk
Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine,
2013, p. 239. |
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5. |
Bill Heidrick,
Thelema Lodge Calendar, November 1997,
Internet resource last accessed on 27 November 2015. |
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6. |
Anthony Clayton, Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister
Crowley, Accumulator, Press, London, 2012, pp.
140-141. |
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7. |
Ibid., pp. 161-162. |
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8. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 2, “The Ray
Burlingame Collection & Other Books by Aleister
Crowley.” |
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9. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, On-Line Catalog #1 – “Aleister
Crowley (Part 1)”. |
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10. |
Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography,
Watkins Publishing, London, 2011, p. 399. |
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11. |
Ibid., p. 414. |
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12. |
Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of
Aleister Crowley, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002, p.
415. |
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13. |
Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast,
Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 34/p. 126, note 127. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
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Reviews: |
“Olla,” an anthology of sixty years of song, is a handsome
volume (published in a limited edition and with a portrait
frontispiece by Augustus John) of poems by the well-known
writer, Aleister Crowley, who for the past few years has made
his home at Netherwood, The Ridge, Hastings.
The poems cover the period from 1887-1946, and include the
opening lines of what the author believes to be his first
published effort in verse. Written on many themes and in all
parts of the world from Moscow to Granada, New York to Chipping
Campden, these works reveal their creator’s ability—mentioned by
him in his entertaining foreword—to put himself into the soul of
various types of men and women and identifying himself “with
their inmost creative Word.”
Mr.
Crowley rejoices in the music, not to say the clangour of words,
which he uses sometimes with violence and always with power. He
is at his most characteristic when (to borrow his own phrase)
“scourging smug piety . . . the stubborn stupor of the
Government,” but he is not always in a fighting mood. Of his
more tranquil style, nothing in the book is a more beautiful
example than the sonnet “Logos,” written at Netherwood in 1946,
and he infuses intense warmth and colour into his love poems,
though, as in the last line of the rapturous “La Gitana,” he
cannot always escape a lapse into bathos.
These
poems have tremendous vitality, an Oriental richness of imagery,
and many jewel-like passages of description which contrast
strangely with the brutal and astringent touches which likewise
abound. Satire goes to an amusing extreme in “Panacea,” the
twelve lines of the word “money,” repeated forty-two times. Mr.
Crowley will have his bitter little joke.
—The
Hastings & St. Leonard's Observer, 4 January 1947.
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