WHITE STAINS

Aleister Crowley Deluxe Illustrated Ltd Ed. withSigned Silkscreen Print by Fredrik Soderberg1/43 Occult Poetry Art

Limited Edition of only 43 copies, in Slipcase, with Silkscreen Print
Signed & Numbered by Carl Abrahamsson & Fredrik Soderberg

Edda, Stockholm, 2011.First Edition Thus, Special Deluxe Edition - Hardcover Black Cloth in dustjacket & Black Cloth Slipcase, and includes Signed Ltd Ed Silkscreen Print by Fredrik Soderberg. Fine & unread Condition. 

This is a very rare, strictly limited special illustrated edition of WHITE STAINS by Aleister Crowley, which was published by Edda in 2011. It was limited to 43 signed & slipcased copies, which came with a stunning silkscreen print by Frederik Soderberg, who also provided 6 illustrations for this edition of this book. The print is 30 cm x 21 cm, and is a limited print of one of the illustrations used in the book (Ode to Venus Callipyge)and has been printed on quality art paper. Both the print & the book have been hand numbered. The book has been signed by both Carl Abrahamsson & Fredrik Soderberg. This special edition is certain to become highly sought-after by collectors.

Condition: NEW!
Price: 298,- euros
Shipping: 30,- euros track & trace included.

Daniel A Schulke
 
Oil on canvas board, 8” x 10”, 2009
 
Signed twice in the front lower right corner & on the back side.
 
Projection of the Body of Shadow via the Red Urn of the Philosophers, which signifies a stage of Mastery in the Work. As with the Aurum concealed within the Prima Materia, the Carrion Bird is also present in the final phase of the Red Work as a Hidden Master.


Daniel A Schulke took over as magister in the cultus sabbatich from the late Andrew D Chumbley. This is TRUELY a VERY rare chance to own an artwork by one of the contemporary leading figures within the occult field.


Condition: MINT
Price: SOLD !
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The Witches' Sabbath & Axiomata

Austin Osman Spare

Published by Fulgur 1992. First Edition, Hardcover. Limited Edition of just 502 of the true original first issue. Shortly after publication, over half the edition was lost. Nearly 500 sets of unbound sheets were pulped when the printer filed for bankruptcy and his warehouse emptied. Original black cloth with gilt designs. Original Talismanic bookmark. Bound back to back -ie each starts at a different end of the book, with each finishing in the middle. A truly beautiful book and a MUST for the serious AOS collection.

In the early 1950’s Austin Osman Spare experienced a renaissance in manuscript. Since the appearance of The Anathema of Zos in 1927 the development of the philosophy of Zos was truly occult. Although AOS had made several attempts at writing in the intervening years, it was the insistent requests of his close friends that provoked his astonishing literary resurgence. Lost titles from this period have become part of modern magickal folklore: Logomachy, Fragmenta, The Goetic Grimoire of Zen, and others. Coetaneous with these, The Witches’ Sabbath was definitely intended for publication, but never progressed beyond manuscript. It was later selectively represented by Kenneth Grant in his oeuvre, but is presented here, in context, for the first time. The remarkable Axiomata has never appeared in print before, and those already familiar with Spare’s work will immediately recognize recurrent themes that have been given greater depth and new perspectives.

As an extension of his spirit this edition seeks an “inbetweeness” quality. Placing the two tracts dos-a-dos draws on an old method of publishing and a new method of magic. The pragmatic axioms and evocative prayers represent the twin forces of nature: the masculine and the feminine, back to back. The text illustrations, from a 1952 sketchbook, weave between image and imagination: a dancing line that partners the conscious and subconscious mind in equal measure.

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Condition: Book is Mint - Dj a bit worn along the top/bottom.
Price: SOLD
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The Witches’ Sabbath and Axiomata

Austin Osman Spare

Fulgur 2007 edition.
Bound in quarter black morocco.
Quarto 296mm x 210mm 64 pages
2 tipped-in colour frontispieces 32 full page illustrations
Quarter morocco, dust-jacket, lined-slipcase
Strictly limited to 91 hand-numbered copies, signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant.

In 1992, Fulgur published their first title by Austin Spare. Two typescripts, one of aphorisms (which they titled Axiomata) and another giving a synopsis of The Witches’ Sabbath were published dos-a-dos, or back to back, in a single volume. The work was illustrated with two tipped-in frontispieces and a selection of dramatic sketches from an unpublished sketchbook by Spare.

Shortly after publication, over half the edition was lost. Nearly 500 sets of unbound sheets were pulped when the printer filed for bankruptcy and his warehouse emptied. Within a few years, the original published price was eclipsed by secondhand values and the title has been scarce since the late 1990s. In 2001, the binder Fulgur used nearly ten years earlier contacted them to say they had discovered a batch of unbound sheets, totalling nearly 100 copies.

Since this version of The Witches’ Sabbath first appeared in 1992, the publication of Zos Speaks! has documented in detail the creation of this important tract nearly 50 years after it was written. In the summer of 1951 Austin Osman Spare was invited by Michael Hall to submit an illustrated article for his bi-monthly publishing venture, The London Mystery Magazine. Working together, Kenneth Grant and Austin Spare developed a potent formula of word and image that applied the process of the Death Posture to group ritual; specifically within the context of the Sabbatic tradition. As a collaboration between two of the most influential minds of twentieth-century occultism, it represents a powerful evocation of Spare’s essential doctrine.

This “new/old” edition is one of the very limited re-issue of The Witches’ Sabbath and Axiomata, signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant. Just ninety-one copies have been made up from the original sheets, with a new title page added and colour frontispieces printed with the vibrancy of modern colour reproduction. This edition is bound in quarter black morocco, dust-jacket and slipcase in absolute top quality.

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Condition: MINT !
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The Valley of Fear
Austin Osman Spare

This is the signed Deluxe edition of only 93 copies. Decorative endpapers, bound in quarter morocco leather with dust-jacket and lined slipcase. Printed in full colour !

It is sometimes observed that there are periods in our lives when the world around us seems to conspire against our most vital interests. For Austin Osman Spare, the darkest of these periods began in 1924. Then recently seperated from his wife and living in reduced circumstances, the critical failure of his publishing venture The Golden Hind triggered a deep personal crisis for our artist. Disconnected from an evolving art world, Spare’s creative energies turned inward and he began a series of extraordinarily powerful works intended to fully capture his bitter desperation and fragile hope.

As one of these major ‘lost’ works The Valley of Fear is an unpublished sketchbook of 20 vigourous yet haunting studies from this bleak and difficult period. Designed as a companion volume to The Book of Ugly Ecstasy (Fulgur, 1996) here the delicately tinted original drawings have been reproduced in full colour. The work has been augmented by an introductory essay by Robert Ansell in which the metaphysical themes are explored and Spare’s methodologies for creating states of magical aesthesis for his audience are examined and discussed.

Condition: MINT !
Price:   SOLD
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Now for Reality
 
Mandrake Press, Thame, 1990 (Limited Numbered First edition thus), 1990. Hardcover, 4to, 78pp, b/w plates. Introduction by Keith Richmond. Limited to 1000 numbered copies.

The text and illustrations of Spare's 'The Focus Of Life' together with the first publication of a series of poems that Aleister Crowley later wrote to accompany the book.The effort of remembering in the valley of fear; Morals of shadow, wherein the Arcana of Zos has no coomasndments and The chaos of the normal . Interesting material on the magic of dreaming. Out of print.

Condition: Very good
Price:   SOLD
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Evolution Vol. One
 
From Influx to Automatic Drawing
 

Austin Osman Spare and Poetry,  the Particular Influence of William Blake, W.B. Yeats and John Gray
Limited Edition of only 225 numbered copies 
 
 
Stephen Pochin takes a close look at Spare's interactions with contemporary poets, and shows how their influences had an effect on Spare's own work, in particular, the early books that Spare produced. Pochin suggests that it was through W.B. Yeats that Spare became aware of the meaning of Blake's work and that this had a profound effect upon the development of Spare's magico-mystical system. He also offers some illuminating insight into Spare's relationship with John Gray, who is generally taken as the model for Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's story. Pochin concludes with an examination of Spare's development of the Alphabet of Desire and his exploration of the inner realms of consciousness.
 
 
All copies are printed upon high quality archival paper but, there are variations. Some are printed on a slightly yellowish goatskin parchment paper, others on white 100% cotton wove and some (including this copy) are printed upon 100% cotton smooth white paper. A small label on the rear pastedown identifies the paper used and the original seller.

Condition: MINT
Price:  SOLD
Shipping: 25,- euros