Oracles: The Biography of an Art

by Aleister Crowley

First edition, limited printing of 500 copies

Inverness (Foyers): Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1905. First edition, first printing, limited edition; print run of only 500 copies. [viii], 175, 14, [2 publisher's list]pp. Bound in publisher's dark green camel hair wrappers; spine lettered in white. About Very Good with chipping at extremities, fill-in repairs at foot and bottom joints; crease down center of spine. Tape ghost at front gutter; split hinge at p. 16; contents lightly foxed with minor toning.

A scarce collection of poetry by English occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley, as well as his translations of Baudelaire. Composed at Crowley's abode on Loch Ness, Boleskin House, which would later house Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Rare with the fragile original wrappers in any state.