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Title: |
Songs for
Italy.
“Parturiunt Montes—Nascitur
Ridiculus Mus”
—Solini. |
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Upper Cover
Lower Cover
Interior Cover
Corfu (Page 7)
Epigrams (Page 15)
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Staple-bound pamphlet.2
Printed on cheap smooth paper and bound in pale
blue wrappers.2
Upper cover lettered in black ‘SONGS FOR ITALY | “Parturiunt
Montes– | Nascitur Ridiculus Mus” –Solini | By |
ALEISTER CROWLEY | [ornament] | June – Sept. XIX.
Price: One Shilling’.2
8” x 5 5/16”.2 |
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Publisher: |
Privately
published. |
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Printer: |
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Published At: |
London.1 |
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Date: |
September2 1923.1
The cover states June-Sept. XIX [The
‘XIX’
represents the
‘Thelemic
Year’
19, i.e. 1923 e.v.3] |
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Edition: |
2nd
Edition. |
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Pages: |
15.1 |
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Price: |
Priced at
1 shilling.2 |
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Remarks: |
The
first
edition of this work contains only the two poems “Tyrol” and “Tirolo.”
Crowley had
requested that Soror Estai [Jane Wolfe] oversee the production
of this small pamphlet. He was terribly disappointed in
the result as evidenced by his 1 January 1924 diary entry:
“I can never see or write to her again.
What adds to the horror is that she did it with such very good
intentions and took such pains and made such sacrifices—and all
to blot my fame indelibly with the abomination of vile
printing.”4 |
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Pagination:2 |
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[1-5] |
Text |
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6] |
Blank |
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7] |
‘CORFU | (Sept 2nd, 1923 e.v.) . | [double-rule] |
five-line quotation from MacBeth | [double-rule]’ |
[
8] |
Quotations from newspapers |
[9-15] |
Text |
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16] |
Blank |
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Contents: |
- Resurgam
et Libertas
- The Eruption of Aetna
- Tyrol
- Tirolo (In Italian)
- The Gambler’s Last Throw
- Inferno
- The Massacre of the Innocents
- Peaceful and Temporary
- The Plague Carrier
- Straddling the Ante
- Epigrams |
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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. |
Personal observation of the item. |
3. |
Weiser Antiquarian Books, On-line Catalog
# 134, “Aleister Crowley. Used and Rare Books and
Ephemera.” |
4. |
Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast,
Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 26. |
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Comments
by
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Crowley: |
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