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Thumbs Up! Five Poems by Aleister Crowley.

Upper Cover

Lower Cover

Title Page

Note

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Binding Detail

Print

Variations:

State (a):

Stapled machine-made paper sheets sewn into gray card wrappers.¹

Upper cover lettered in black ‘THUMBS UP! | In hoc | [emblem of the Beast 666] | signo Vinces’.²

8 1/2” x 6 1/4”.²

State (b):

Stapled booklet issued without wrappers.⁴

Has a tipped-in slip at page 7 requesting ‘Contributions toward the printing of a much larger edition for free distribution among the Soldiers and Workers of the Forces of Freedom.’¹

8 1/2” x 6 1/4”.⁴

Publisher:

Printer:

Published At:

P.O. Box 2411, Hollywood, California.¹

Date:

1942.¹

Edition:

2nd Edition.

Pages:

8.¹

Price:

Remarks:

The cover design was drawn by Lady Frieda Harris.³

This second edition has neither portrait nor errata slip of the first edition.¹

A typed note before the title-page states that ‘A number of copies have been made available for free distribution among the Soldiers and Workers of the Forces of Freedom.’²

Pagination:

Page(s)
[ 1]	Title-page
[2-8]	Text

Contents:

- The Pentagram

- England, Stand Fast

- Toast

- Hymn

- Anthem

Author’s

Working

Versions:

Other

Known

Editions:

+	**Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War**, O.T.O., London, 1941.
+	*Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of “The V Sign”*, O.T.O., London, 1941.
+	*Thumbs Up! Five Poems by Aleister Crowley*, O.T.O., Hollywood, California, 1942.

Bibliographic

Sources:

1.	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, p. 48.
2.	Personal observation of the item.
3.	Richard Kaczynski, Ph.D., Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2010, p. 516.
4.	Weiser Antiquarian Books, Catalog # 7, “Aleister Crowley & Your Interest in Magick.”

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