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THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS

(SUBSCRIBER'S EDITION)

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Title:

The Equinox of the Gods. The Official Organ of the A\A\

Upper Cover

Spine

Subscriber's Edition

Title Page

Errata Slip

Folder (Upper Cover)

Folder (Lower Cover)

Manuscript (Page 1)

Print

Variations:

250 copies printed on machine-made paper.⁴

Bound in orange paper boards with a blue cloth spine.⁴

Spine has a printed paper label printed vertically down the spine ‘THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS’.¹

Publisher:

Privately published by the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).³

Printer:

Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol.¹

Published At:

London.³

Date:

December 1937.⁶

Edition:

First Edition.

Pages:

vi + 137 + unnumbered page + 65 single-sided sheets.⁵

Price:

Priced at 11 shillings.⁴

Remarks:

This edition has a cancel slip changing the last three lines of the title-page to ‘An Ixi in | DECEMBER MCMXXXVII E.V. | Privately issued by the O.T.O. | BCM/ANKH 188 High Holburn, W.C. 2’.⁵

Bound by Key & Whiting, Canonbury, London.¹

Printed in 16pt Bembo type.⁴

Has errata slip with 16 items⁵ facing page [138].

A portfolio contained in a pocket at the end of this book contains a photolithographic facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript of The Book of the Law plus the Commentary on The Book of the Law. (65 loose sheets measuring 10 7/16” x 8 3/8”, in a heavy white paper wrapper)

Pagination:²

Page(s)
[ α]	Illustration
[ β]	Paraphrase of stele’s inscription
[ δ]	Paraphrase of stele’s hieroglyphs
[ γ]	Illustration
[ iii]	Title-page
[ iv]	O.T.O. notice
[ v]	Contents
[ vi]	Illustration
[1-11]	Prefatory material
[ 12]	Blank
[ 13]	Ornamental fly-title
[ 14]	O.T.O. notice
[15-137]	Text
[138]	Illustration

Contents:

- The Summons

- A Summary

- Liber Al vel LEGIS

- Genesis Libri Al

Pocket

- The Comment

- Facsimile of the MS. of Liber AL

Illustrations

- The Stélé of Revealing

- Four Horoscopes

- First Sketch of a Quabalistic Key to Liber AL

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Aleister Crowley’s printer’s mock-up, with notes and corrections in his hand. Contains galley proofs of the text of the book and 1st proofs of the facsimile manuscript of The Book of the Law. Pages: 80 + 65 facsimiles in pocket on back cover. 27cm. London, BM/JPKH. 1936. Warburg Institute Collection.

Other

Known

Editions:

+	O.T.O., London, 1936.
+	O.T.O., London, 1937.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1942.
+	O.T.O., New Jersey, Circa 1955.
+	O.T.O., California, Circa 1987.
+	Gordon Press, New York, 1974.
+	O.T.O., California, 1974.
+	Stellar Visions, San Francisco, 1986.
+	New Falcon, Arizona, 1991.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, pp. 112-113.
2.	Dianne Frances Rivers, A Bibliographic List with Special Reference To the Collection at the University of Texas, Master of Arts Thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1967, pp. 118-121.
3.	Gerald Yorke, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley (Expanded and Corrected by Clive Harper from Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, Keith Richmond, editor, The Teitan Press, York Beach, ME, 2011, pp. 54-55.
4.	Timothy d’Arch Smith, The Books of the Beast, Mandrake, Oxford, 1991, p. 19.
5.	Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber Al vel Legis, Red Wheel/Weiser, York Beach, ME, 2004, p. 153.
6.	Per the cancel slip pasted on the title-page. Additionally, Crowley did not receive the address shown on the cancel slip until 10 December 1937.

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