Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

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Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War.

Upper Cover

Lower Cover

Folded Cover

Interior Cover

Title Page

Frontispiece

Limitation Page

#32 - Guy Knowles

Errata Slip

Errata Slip (Magnified)

Contents

To Adolf Schiklgruber

Print

Variations:

100 copies.¹

Bound in green wrappers.¹

Wrappers created by folding 19” x 14 1/4” piece of paper in half, then in half again, resulting in a double thickness wrapper with a finished size of 9 1/2” x 7 1/8”. The wrapper is closed on top and left edges but open on the right and bottom edges.²

Upper cover lettered in red ‘Thumbs Up!’.²

Copies are numbered with some copies signed.²

9 1/2” x 7 1/8”.²

Publisher:

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).²

Printer:

The Chiswick Press Ltd., New Southgate, London, N. 11.²

Published At:

The Abbey of Thelema, Rainbow Valley, Palomar Mountain, California, U.S.A.²

Per the pamphlet's Errata Slip "This book is published by the Author at 10 Hanover Square, London, W.1."

Date:

6.26 a.m. July 23, 1941 e.v.²

Edition:

1st Edition.

Pages:

12.¹

Price:

Priced at 11/-.³

Remarks:

Has a photograph of Crowley printed in red mounted on the inside front of wrapper as frontispiece with the caption ‘The Author: An V (1909 e.v.)’.²

An errata slip, printed in red, is tipped in at the title-page.²

Distribution:

—Copy #2 currently resides in the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.⁵

—Copy #11 was sold to Gordon Carr, Stock Exchange.¹⁰

—Copy #14 was sold to Edward Noel Fitzgerald.¹¹

—Copy #15 went to Karl Germer with an inscription which read ‘Caroio fratri meo amico dilectissimi hunc librum do. 666.’⁴

—Copy #17 was sold to O.L. Gordon, Captain of HMS Exeter.

—Copy #27 was sold to Greta Valentine.³

—Copy #32 went to Guy Knowles with an inscription which read ‘To Guy Knowles, known in the secret conclaves as G.K., from his old companion on-the-hoof A.C., known in the Arcane Areopagus as Aleister Crowley in memory of unfading Himalayan splendour.’⁸.

—Copy #33 went to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson with an inscription which read ‘To the best mind that I know: would it were not so busy lecturing to morons! Good Umfreville, let me join thee!.’⁶.

—Copy #42 went to Frater N.S.F with an inscription which read ‘amicitia invicta 666.’⁷

—Copy #77 was sold to G.J.W. Haswell, The Anchorage, The Avenue, St. Albans Herts.¹⁰

—Copy # 90 was sold to Peggy Bartlett.⁹

Pagination:

Page(s)
[ 1]	Title-page
[ 2]	‘PUBLISHED BY THE O.T.O. \| [dove descending] \| At the Abbey of Thelema, Rainbow Valley, Palomar Mountains, California, U.S.A. \| An. I xv Sol in o¹ o² o³ Leo. 6.26. a.m. July 23, 1941, e.v. \| One Hundred Copies only numbered and signed by \| the Author. This copy is No. ’
[3-9]	Text
[ 10]	Note to Anthem
[ 11]	Contents, Colophon ‘ [rule] \| PRINTED IN ENGLAND \| BY THE CHISWICK PRESS LTD., \| NEW SOUTHGATE, LONDON, N.11.’
[ 12]	‘To Adolf Schicklgruber ...’

Contents:

- The Pentagram

- England, Stand Fast

- Toast

- Hymn

- Anthem

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Other

Known

Editions:

+	*Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of “The V Sign”*, O.T.O., London, 1941.
+	*Thumbs Up! Five Poems by Aleister Crowley*, O.T.O., Los Angeles, California, 1942.
+	*Thumbs Up! Five Poems by Aleister Crowley*, O.T.O., Hollywood, California, 1942.

Bibliographic

Sources:

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. 47.
2.	Personal observation of the item.
3.	Aleister Crowley, Diary entry for 17 July 1941, unpublished.
4.	Bill Heidrick, Thelema Lodge Calendar, November 1997, Internet resource last accessed on 27 November 2015.
5.	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Call No. PR 6005 R7 F8 1942 - Copy 3.
6.	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Call No. PR 6005 R7 T5 1941 - Copy 2.
7.	Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Call No. PR 6005 R7 T5 1941 - Copy 1.
8.	Rothschild-Berlin Catalog, “Catalogue of an Enigma,”, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1989. Also, Peter Harrington, Bookseller Invertory # 90036, Internet resource, last accessed on 2 August 2015.
9.	Aleister Crowley, Diary entry for 6 October 1941, unpublished.
10.	Aleister Crowley, Diary entry for 1 July 1941, unpublished.
11.	Letter from Aleister Crowley to Edward Noel Fitzgerald, dated 11 August 1941. Warburg Institute, University of London, NS 113.

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