Description
For sale is a Fine paperback edition, first printing of The Drug & Other Stories by Aleister Crowley. Second Edition stated, 2015 Wordsworth Editions. First printing with no subsequent printing. No hardcover edition has been printed.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Fine condition, with clean, red covers with no creases, no surface wear, strong title on an un-cracked spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also Fine, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley is a revised and expanded second edition that brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922.
The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts — if not the first — of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon. This second edition adds several additional stories, including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, featuring the author’s previously unpublished annotations. Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
Don’t miss the opportunity to own this Fine first paperback printing of this rare book. S
