Liber Aleph VEL CXI The Book of Wisdom or Folly by Aleister Crowley
Publication: 1972 L.A. Brock for Level Press First Edition First Printing
Decorative paper boards with Frontis. An early Level Press printing with the complete text of Crowley's masterwork. This is the true first edition; there were subsequent reprints of this in the 1970s which contained some minor variations to the covers. The first printings are identified by the positioning of the lettering on the title pages and the monochrome style pages, along with the insignia to the title page. The edition listed here having all qualities mentioned.
"Liber Aleph vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly is the title of The Equinox, volume III, number VI, by Aleister Crowley. The book is written in the form of an epistle to his magical son, Charles Stansfeld Jones, Frater Achad, whom Crowley later doubted as being his true magical son, asserting that Achad had in fact gone insane, citing as evidence Achad's "upending the tree of life" in his Q.B.L., or The Bride's Reception, the first of Achad's major qabalistic works. The book consists of 208 short epistles on the philosophy of Thelema, Crowley's own ethical system of occult magic. Though the book was not published until some time after its writing in 1918, it is considered one of the forefront commentaries on Crowley's teachings."
Condition: The book contains signs of wear to decorative coverers, wear to edges, the pages are clean and the binding is still solid, Condition Good. RARE