THE CONFESSIONS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY. An Autohagiography.

First 'corrected edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Andrew Young designed dustwrapper. Illustrated in black and white throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the price-clipped dustwrapper that is ever so slightly faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears.

The autobiographical confessions of Aleister Crowley, document his world-wide adventures, bizarre philosophical and spiritual explorations, and experimentation with sex, drugs and occult practices from his early life to mid – late 1920's. Originally two sections were published by Mandrake Press as 'The Spirit of Solitude' in 1929 across two volumes. Crowley intended to publish six volumes of his autobiographical confessions, however the project was left unfinished until 1969, after Crowley's death in 1947, when six parts were published as a single volume with Symonds and Grant as editors. After working closely with Crowley during the last two years of his life John Symonds became Crowley's literary executor, and, though increasingly critical of the occultist's methods, went on to publish three biographies of him. Kenneth Grant studied under Crowley who initiated him into the secret society 'Ordo Templi Orientis'. Grant became the head of the British branch of the O.T.O. after Crowley's death. The present volume has been revised and expanded by the editors from the 1969 edition using new information. Kenneth Grant also adds a short preface that was not present in the earlier edition.