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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. BERNARD SHAW

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The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

Interior Page

U.S. Copyright

Print

Variations:

60² to 200⁹ mimeographed copies printed.

Bound as a 10-ring spiral notebook with maroon textured limp boards.¹¹

Upper cover lettered in gilt ‘THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. BERNARD SHAW’.¹

10 7/8” x 8 3/8”.¹

Publisher:

Thelema Publishing Company.²

Printer:

W. J. Hanson, New York, New York.⁵

Published At:

Barstow, California.²

Date:

1953.² (Copyright date is 18 February 1953)¹⁰

Edition:

First Edition.

Pages:

viii + 238.¹

Price:

Priced at $5.00.¹

Remarks:

Also known as Liber 888.⁴

The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw was originally intended to be published in The Equinox Vol. 3, No. 2. This publication actually reached the print stage, but Crowley was unable to raise $1,500 for release of the printed pages, in addition to the money required to have the book bound.³ The unbound pages were eventually destroyed circa 1928. Crowley had retained a bound set of page proofs which was later lost or stolen circa 1943.⁶

Typed on plastiplates by Ruth Soule, one of Roy Leffingwell's daughters using an electric typewriter.⁷ This edition was duplicated from these plastiplates.⁸

Pages bound out of order or upside down pages are sometimes found.^{9,
12}

Karl Germer copyrighted this book under his own name rather than Crowley's.¹⁰

Pagination:¹

Page(s)
[i-iv]	Blanks
[ v]	Title-page
[ vi]	‘Copyright by Karl J. Germer, Hampton N.J.’
[ vii]	Quotation from Aleister Crowley’s Confessions
[ viii]	Blank
[1-238]	Text
[239-242]	Blanks

Contents:

Author’s

Working

Versions:

1.	Typescript with corrections in the hand of Aleister Crowley. Pages: 309. Warburg Institute Collection.
2.	Bound typescript. Pages: 238. Dated: 1953. Box 1, Folder 8. Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.

Other

Known

Editions:

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	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. 153-154.
2.	Clive Harper, A Bibliography of the Works of Aleister Crowley (Expanded and Corrected), Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2011, p. 61.
3.	Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City, Blue Equinox Oasis, Royal Oak, Michigan, 2006, pp. 70-71.
4.	Ibid, p. 34.
5.	Ibid, p. 16.
6.	Martin P. Starr, The Unknown God, The Teitan Press, Inc., Bolingbrook, 2003, p. 106, note 3.
7.	In the Continuum, Volume IV, No. 8, College of Thelema, An. LXXXVI, 1990, e.v. Sun in 0° Libra, Oroville, California, p. 34.
8.	In the Continuum, Volume IV, No. 10, College of Thelema, An. LXXXVII, 1991, e.v. Sun in 0° Libra, Oroville, California, p. 40.
9.	J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, p. 139.
10.	Catalog of Copyright Entries, January-June 1953, p. 133.
11.	Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 101, “Aleister Crowley. A Selection of Beastly Books, Magazines, and Ephemera.”
12.	Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 2, “The Ray Burlingame Collection & Other Books by Aleister Crowley.”

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