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Title:

Chicago May. A Love Poem.

Upper Cover

State (b)

Lower Cover

State (b)

Interior Cover

State (b)

Title Page

State (b)

Limitation Page

(Example 1)

Limitation Page

(Example 2)

Print

Variations:

State (a):

3 copies printed on vellum.²

Should be numbered 1-3 and signed.²

State (b):

50 copies printed on Whatman⁴ hand-made paper.²

Bound in thick red paper wrappers.³

Upper cover lettered in black ‘CHICAGO MAY’.³

Should be number 4-53 and signed.²

Publisher:

Privately printed.¹

Printer:

Published At:

New York.¹

Date:

circa January 1914.¹

Edition:

1st Edition.

Pages:

27.

Price:

Priced at 5 guineas.¹

Remarks:

The authenticity of the signatures in these books is highly suspect as they do not resemble any other known example of Crowley's signature. (See examples at right.)

Mary Desti (Soror Virakem) is the focus of Crowley's rather unflattering poetry.⁵

Crowley received a copy of Chicago May from the printer on 8 January 1914.⁶

Dedicated to Austin Harrison.³

Title page printed in red and black.³

Pagination:³

Page(s)
[ 1]	Title-page
[ 2]	Dedication
[3-26]	Text
[ 27]	Limitation information

Contents:

- Part I – Rome - December

- Part II – London - January

- Part III - La Manche - February

- Part IV – Cherbourg – March

- Part V – Domain D’Hardelot - April

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Versions:

Other

Known

Editions:

+	Mandrake Publishing, England, 1993.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	Gerald J. Yorke, “Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley” in John Symonds’ The Great Beast, Rider and Co., London & New York, 1951, p. 304.
2.	Aleister Crowley, Chicago May, New York, 1914, per limitation page.
3.	Personal observation of the item.
4.	Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast, Mandrake, Oxford; 1991, p. 33.
5.	Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City, Blue Equinox Oasis, Royal Oak, Michigan, 2006, pp. 65-66.
6.	John Symonds, The Great Beast, Mayflower Books Ltd., Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, 1973, p. 208.

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