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Title: |
Eight
Lectures on Yoga.
By Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji. Being The Equinox
Volume III, Number Four. |
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Upper Cover
State (a)
Lower Cover
State (a)
Title
Page
Frontispiece
Errata Slip
Dust
Jacket
Upper
Dust
Jacket
Lower
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State (a): |
Edges are untrimmed.2
Printed on Glastonbury paper.1
Bound in brown buckram.1
Upper cover stamped in gilt ‘EIGHT LECTURES | ON YOGA |
[seal of the
A\A\]’.2
Dust jacket is white with Aleister Crowley’s portrait on
the front.2
11 1/2” x 8 3/4”.5 |
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State (b): |
A
U.S. variant of this edition exists.
In a 15 July 1939 letter to Wilfred Talbot Smith,
Crowley mentions that in order to save on shipping costs
he is sending 30 copies of the book in sheets to be
bound by Smith as near as possible to the original
edition.8 These unbound sheets were sent
to California where they were locally bound by the Agape
Lodge of the O.T.O. All
aspects of this variation are the same as state (a) with
the exception of (1) the actual binding, (2) the line
“Printed in England”
has been added to the bottom of the colophon
on page 88 and (3) the errata slip has been tipped in
instead of bound in.3,
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Edges
are untrimmed.3
Bound in a brown cloth that is coarser than that of
state (a).3,
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Upper cover stamped in gilt ‘EIGHT LECTURES | ON YOGA |
[seal of the
A\A\]
(Note: The seal is not as clearly stamped and is
slightly smaller than in state (a)’.3,
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Dust jacket is the same as the UK edition.3,
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Publisher: |
Ordo
Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) (BCM/ANKH).5 |
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Printer: |
Western
Printing Services Ltd., 31-35, Brick Street, London, W. 1.5 |
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Published At: |
188, High
Holborn, London, W.C. 1.5 |
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Date: |
21 March
1939 e.v., two minutes past noon.5 |
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Edition: |
First
Edition. |
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Pages: |
84 + [1]
leaf of plates + 4 pages of advertisements.2 |
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Price: |
Priced at
half-a-guinea net.5 |
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Remarks: |
This book grew
out of a series of lectures given by Crowley at various London
venues.7
The cover was
designed by Crowley.6
A "signed and
numbered hand-made paper edition" was planned but not released.
Some sets of these survive.1
Frontispiece
photo taken by
"Vernon
D. Freedland."5
Frontispiece
is protected by a tissue guard.3,
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Contains
an errata slip bound/tipped in at page 84.3,
5
Published under
the pseudonym Mahatma Guru Sri Paramahansa Shivaji. Of this
pseudonym, Crowley wrote, "The name is, of course, a little slap
of mine at the swinish scoundrels who confer high-sounding title
on themselves, and write books about a subject which they do not
understand at all." He was referring to His Holiness
Mahatma Sri Agamya Guru Paramahamsa, with whom he was associated
at the dawn of his Equinox period in London.6
This is The
Equinox, Volume III, Number 4.1
Dedicated to Charles Richard Cammell, Our Chairman.5 |
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Ornament: dove descending | ‘Baphomet’ in script |
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Title-page |
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‘A\A\
PUBLICATION IN CLASS B.’ |
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Dedication |
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Advertisements, [rule], Colophon ‘W.P.S. Ltd. 31 - 35,
Brick Street, London, W.1. |
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Contents: |
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Preface |
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Yoga
for Yahoos |
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First Lecture: First Principles |
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Second
Lecture: Yama |
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Third
Lecture: Niyama |
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Fourth
Lecture: Asana and Pranayama |
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Yoga
for Yellowbellies |
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First Lecture |
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Second
Lecture |
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Third
Lecture |
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Fourth
Lecture |
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Illustrations: |
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Portrait of Aleister Crowley (Photogravure by Vernon D. Freedland |
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The Tree of Life |
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Author’s
Working
Versions: |
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1. |
Typescript with corrections in the hand of Aleister
Crowley. Pages: 192.
Warburg Institute Collection. |
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2. |
Pre-publication typescript with corrections in the hand
of Aleister Crowley. Pages: 162.
Warburg Institute Collection. |
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Other
Known
Editions: |
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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. 55. |
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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. 135-136. |
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3. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 38, “Aleister
Crowley: A Miscellany of Used and Rare Books.” |
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4. |
J.
Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk
Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine,
2013, p. 103, note 81. |
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5. |
Personal observation of the item. |
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6. |
Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life of
Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley,
California, 2010, p. 504. |
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7. |
Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of
Aleister Crowley, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002. |
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8. |
Aleister Crowley's Letters,
Binder 10, Letters to American Disciples,
Warburg Institute,
NS 15. |
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Comments
by
Aleister
Crowley: |
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