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Title:

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

Cover

Spine

Print

Variations:

Approximately 10 to 20 sets of the subscriber's edition came into the possession of Helen Parsons Smith who bound them in a facsimile of the original binding.²

These were bound in sail-cloth³ rather than buckram and the gold stamping was less precise.¹

Publisher:

Printer:

Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol.¹

Published At:

London / California.¹

Date:

1936 / circa 1987.¹

Edition:

Pages:

vi + 137 + 1 unnumbered page + 65 single-sided sheets.

Price:

Remarks:

Circa 1942, and probably earlier, an unknown number of sets of unbound sheets were sent to Wilfred Talbot Smith in the U.S.. Binding of the sheets was done locally in the style of the original 1936 edition.¹

Has errata slip with 17 items.¹

Pagination:

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., New Jersey, Circa 1955.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, pp. 112-115.
2.	Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2010, p. 658, note 2.
3.	Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 22, “Aleister Crowley Rarities.”

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