The Tale of Archais: A Romance in Verse
A Gentlemen of the University of Cambridge [Aleister Crowley]London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1898.
First Edition.
20cm x 16cm. viii, 89 pages. Original quarter white cloth, papered boards, paper label.
One of Crowley’s early poetic explorations of erotic transformation, desire, and sacrificial devotion, published pseudonymously before the public assumption of his occult identity. One of 250 copies of the first edition, this example bearing the bookplate of Harry Bertram McCaskie, a physician collector whose plate dates from around the time of publication.
Minor soiling to binding. Very minor tanning to endpapers. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$2,000.00
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