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Suffolk [UK]: Antique Collector's Club, 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Brown cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Illustrated throughout in b&w. A fine copy in like dust jacket. An excellent look at the mysteries and lore of book collecting. The technical aspects of bookmaking, the language of book collection, the vexed question of first editions, the matter of completeness and condition, and a lengthy glossary clarifies and puts in context many of the terms often loosely bandied about.
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Understanding Book Collecting
by Uden, Grant
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The Unknown God. W. T. Smith and the Thelemites
by Starr, Martin P.
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Bolingbrook, IL: The Teitan Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lamen to upper front panel. Spine titled in gilt. 416 pages, b/w photographs. Former owner's name neatly inked (small) to top right of front free endpaper. Otherwise a fine copy in like dust jacket. The first documentary study of Aleister Crowley's contemporary followers in North America, told through the life of their de facto leader, Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957). Others covered here are Jack Parsons, C.F. Russell, Jane Wolfe, Max Schneider, Louis Culling, Grady McMurtry, and many more. Much of the source material that Starr worked with came directly from Smith's wife, Helen Parsons Smith.
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