Aleister Crowley - Olla: An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song

Original brown cloth with gilt lettering down spine and on upper board, which also has a gilt-stamped device - Crowley's 'mark of the Beast' sigil. Frontis. Portrait of Crowley by Augustus John. Crowley's own selection of his best poetry, and the last of his books to be published in his own lifetime. Famously a binders error saw the 'mark of the Beast' sigil on the front board stamped upside down, something that would doubtless have caused Crowley great annoyance. Light shelf wear and rubbing to spine and edges of the boards, cloth a little discolored in spots, corners bumped. Bookplate on front paste down, a little spotting, mostly to the preliminaries. Still, a near-VG copy of a book, which due to war-time economy standards, did not have the production values of Crowley's earlier works.@KG