1,000 copies printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper.¹ 

800 copies bound in cloth-covered boards with felt spine.³

Top edge gilt.³

Copies are numbered with a mechanical stamp, not by hand.  Some copies are not numbered.³

7 1/4” x 5”.³

This book was printed in 1913 and was originally planned to be published by Wieland & Co. but Crowley’s financial problems apparently prevented this from happening.  The unbound sheets were kept in storage until 1928 when Crowley met Edward Titus who agreed to publish the book.¹

Several versions of the Epilogue by various hands (actually by Crowley) and twelve copper plate engravings from the original drawings by the artist Jean de Bosschère.² 

State (a):

Three copies are known to have been bound with the Wieland & Co. title page.

—Two of these copies currently reside in the collection of the Warburg Institute (Classmark EBH 1052 & EBH 1052c.2).

The remaining copy is said to be in a private collection.⁴

State (b):

Bound in gray cloth-covered boards with a brown felt spine.³

Upper cover has a brown felt label affixed and lettered in black ‘BAUDELAIRE | LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE | Translated by ALEISTER CROWLEY | Illustrated by JEAN de BOSSCHERE’.³

Spine stamped in black vertically across spine ‘BAUDELAIRE | LITTLE | POEMS | IN PROSE | PARIS’.³

This binding has a limitation page that states ‘First edition Limited to eight hundred copies for sale in France England & America.’³

Variations: 

—Some bindings have been seen with a spine with a white paper label lettered in black ‘BAUDELAIRE | LITTLE | POEMS | IN | PROSE | [rule] | Tr. By ALEISTER | CROWLEY | Paris · 1928’.³

—Additionally, some bindings have a slip tipped in in front of the half title that states ‘The quota of this edition apportioned to the United States of America sold by Random House, New York.’  [This is the same statement included on the limitation of state (b).]³

State (c):

Bound in a brown cloth-covered boards with a tan felt spine.³

Upper cover has a tan felt label affixed and lettered in black ‘BAUDELAIRE | LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE | Translated by ALEISTER CROWLEY | Illustrated by JEAN de BOSSCHERE’.³

Spine stamped in black vertically across spine ‘BAUDELAIRE | LITTLE | POEMS | IN PROSE | PARIS’.³

This binding has a limitation page that states ‘First edition Limited to eight hundred copies for sale in France England & America.  The quota of this edition apportioned to the United States of America sold by Random House, New York.’³

Page(s)

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Half title

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“at the sign of the Black Manikin.  Made and printed partly in Great Britain, partly in France.”

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Title page

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“Tous droits de reproduction, de traduction et d’adaption réservés pour tous pays y compris la Russie Copyright bt Edward W. Titus.”

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Translator's Preface

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“I am deeply indebted to Anna Wright for her brilliant and intoxicating assistance in the task of revision.  A.C.”

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Contents

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Limitation Page [Varies depending on State(a) or State(b)- See associated pictures].

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2 page Errata Sheet bound in

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Chiswick Press

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Four pages of Advertisements with colophon of Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin.

Page proofs with revisions in the hand of Aleister Crowley.  Pages:  143.  Dated:  1913.  Box 12, Folder 3.  Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.

1.

Charles Baudelaire (Translator Aleister Crowley), Martin P. Starr, editor, Little Poems in Prose, The Teitan Press, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1995, pp. ix-x.

2.

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. 56-57.  

3.

Personal observation of the item.

4.

J. Edward Cornelius, The Aleister Crowley Desk Reference, The Teitan Press, York Beach, Maine, 2013, p. 201.