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Title:

The Equinox of the Gods. The Official Organ of the A\A\

Upper Cover

Lower Cover

Spine

Cover / Spine

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Stele

Print

Variations:

Printed on Japanese vellum (Japon paper).⁴

500 copies bound in maroon cloth.¹

Upper cover stamped in gilt with the seal of the A\A\²

Spine stamped in gilt vertically down the spine ‘[horizontal double-rule] |THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS | [horizontal double-rule]’.²

10 1/4 x 7 1/2.²

Publisher:

Privately published by the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).³ / Wehman Bros.⁷

Printer:

Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol.¹

Published At:

New York, New York / Hackensack, New Jersey.

Date:

1936 / 1955.¹

Edition:

Second Edition, Second Issue.

Pages:

vi + 137 + 1 unnumbered page.⁷

Price:

Remarks:

This issue is made from original unbound sheets left over from the second issue originally printed in 1937 and is missing the pocket with The Comment on The Book of the Law and the photolithographic facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the Law.

Not all copies have the color plates of the Stele.³

Approximately 900 copies of unbound sheets from the 1937 printing were passed to Samuel Weiser by Karl Germer where they were trimmed from their original size, bound and distributed.⁵

The foot of the title-page may be rubber stamped WEHMAN BROS. | PUBLISHERS | 712 BROADWAY, N. Y. 3’.

A variation of this rubber stamp has been reported as ‘WEHMAN BROS. | PUBLISHER | 158 MAIN STREET | HACKENSACK, N.J.’⁷
Although this issue does not have the pocket at the rear of the volume that held a folder containing single-sided manuscript copies of the Book of the Law, some copies of this issue were sold with the manuscript copies in the original folder placed in a specially printed buff-colored envelope.¹^{,
6}

Some copies had a cancel imprint label pasted on the title page that read "Occult Research Press, 117 Fourth Avenue, New York, New York" which, at the time, was the name of Samuel Weiser’s publishing business.⁵

Pagination:²

Page(s)
[ α]	Illustration
[ β]	Paraphrase of stele’s inscription
[ δ]	Paraphrase of stele’s hieroglyphs
[ γ]	Illustration
[ iii]	Title-page
[ iv]	O.T.O. notice
[ v]	Contents
[ vi]	Illustration
[1-11]	Prefatory material
[ 12]	Blank
[ 13]	Ornamental fly-title
[ 14]	O.T.O. notice
[15-137]	Text
[138]	Illustration

Contents:

- The Summons

- A Summary

- Liber Al vel LEGIS

- Genesis Libri Al

Illustrations:

- The Stélé of Revealing

- Four Horoscopes

- First Sketch of a Quabalistic Key to Liber AL

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Aleister Crowley’s printer’s mock-up, with notes and corrections in his hand. Contains galley proofs of the text of the book and 1st proofs of the facsimile manuscript of The Book of the Law. Pages: 80 + 65 facsimiles in pocket on back cover. 27cm. London, BM/JPKH. 1936. Warburg Institute Collection.

Other

Known

Editions:

+	O.T.O., London, 1936 (subscriber's edition).
+	O.T.O., London, 1936.
+	O.T.O., London, 1937.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1942.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1987.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, pp. 112-115.
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. 118-121.
3.	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, pp. 54-55.
4.	Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber Al vel Legis, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, ME, 2004, p. 153.
5.	Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast, Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 19.
6.	Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 108, “Aleister Crowley, Friends, and Followers. Used and Rare Books and Ephemera.”
7.	Personal observation of the item.

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