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The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.

The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley, John Symonds. First Edition.
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The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley 

John Symonds

First edition, first printing of this important biographical work on Aleister Crowley. Symonds met Crowley a year before Crowley's death and was named as his literary executor in his will. At first fascinated by Crowley, Symonds became increasingly critical of his ideas and manners. While Symonds has been called "that most hostile biographer," it has also been noted that "regardless of his reception, it is no exaggeration to state that without the publication efforts of Symonds (and Grant) Crowley could easily have been a forgotten figure by the 1970s."

London: Rider & Co., 1951. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; frontispiece and black and white plates throughout, pp. 316. A very good copy in an about good, unclipped dust jacket. Light wear and toning to boards, front board a bit bowed, offsetting to endpapers, internally clean with a few instances of foxing. Jacket shows wear with a few closed tears and chipping to extremities, a few tape reinforcements to verso, protected in archival mylar. Scarce. 

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