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THE
BOOK
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THOTH
(prospectus)
(UK)
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Title: |
The Book
of Thoth.
Prospectus |
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Stapled pamphlet.2
Printed on the same mould-made paper as used for The
Book of Thoth.3
Cover
lettered in black
“THE BOOK OF THOTH | By | THE MASTER THERION | [pasted on
color reproduction of the design for
‘The
Lovers’]
| Artist Executive: | FRIEDA HARRIS”2
10” x 7 1/2”.2 |
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Publisher: |
Ordo
Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). |
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Printer: |
Chiswick
Press, London, N. II.2 |
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Published At: |
London.2 |
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Date: |
Circa
spring of 1944.1 |
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Edition: |
1st
Edition. |
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Pages: |
8.2 |
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Remarks: |
In the spring
of 1944 Crowley prepared this prospectus and began
selling subscriptions to The Book of Thoth in May.
He found
takers in McMurtry, Sutherland,
Tredegar, and Bayley as well as E. N. Fitzgerald, Dion Fortune,
and others.1
Due to wartime
rationing these prospectuses caused some concern after they were
mailed. Crowley wrote:
“It
seems that I may have technically infringed one of those fool
regulations about sending out prospectuses free of charge, but
luckily The Book of Thoth is No. 5 of Vol III of The
Equinox. Of course it is very trivial and technical:
but considering how I have been framed up in the past, and how
many wolves are out after my blood, I must confess to more than
a little apprehension.”1
An
American version of a prospectus exists for
“The
Book of Thoth.” |
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Tarot - General Attribution |
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Bibliographic
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1. |
Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life of
Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,
California, 2010, p. 530-531. |
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Personal observation of the item. |
3. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 20, “Aleister
Crowley, Frieda Harris, and the Thoth Tarot.” |
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Aleister
Crowley: |
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