RARE Jerry Kay 1967 Liber AL vel Legis Xeno Publications - Aiwass

Description: AIWASS and CROWLEY, Aleister. Edited, etc. by Jerry KayLiber AL vel Legis, sub Figura CCXX as delivered byXCIII=418 to DCLXVI [ Cover title: The Book Of The Law ]NP [ Los Angeles ]: XenoPublications, 1967. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. (83/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 44pp. Black printed stapled yellow wrappers, front coverillustrated & titled in black with naked woman and snake design on frontwrapper. The rear wrapper has a four-paragraph blurb, signed Jerry Kay, withina decorative border. The scarce first printing of this unusual edition of"The Book of the Law," produced in 1967 by Jerry Kay, the film artistwho had a brief association with the Solar Lodge, and is best known as the artdirector of the film 'Easy Rider.' The first page is the title page, with"LIBER / AL VEL / LEGIS / SUB FIGURA / CCXX / AS DELIVERED BY / XCIII =418 / to DCLXVI " within the typical Egyptian-style border. The verso ofthe title page has "A.'. A.'./ Publication in Class A." above theA.'. A.'. seal and a complex imprimatur, followed by the publisher's details.Pages 3 - 9 reproduce the Introduction to the (corrected) 1942 US Edition, withsome slight alterations to the footnotes, page 10 is blank, and pages 1- 30reproduce the text of Liber CCXX, again from the 1942 edition. P. 31 has aprinted Baphomet image, and pages 32 - 44 reproduce the "Old Comment"from "The Equinox Vol. I, No. VII." Covers a bit darkened as common,hint of rubbing. The right side of the top edge has evidently received a smallblow from above, slightly bending that corner’s pages backward. Internallytight, clean and unmarked. Overall a copy in Good condition. Scarce and one ofthe more popular printings of this important work. Jerry Kay’s (Xeno Publications) 1967 First Edition of Liber AL, an important publication, both for the Los Angeles area and for Thelema generally.Xeno Publications operated in the late 1960s out of 6311 Yucca Street in Hollywood, a proverbial “stone’s throw” (1.7 miles) to 1746 Winona Blvd, where Agape Lodge no. 2, Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) had been founded in 1935. (Agape Lodge would eventually move to Pasadena and close permanently in 1949.) At the time of this Book of the Law’s publication in 1967, Crowley’s works were extremely difficult to get a hold of. There was only one other edition of The Book of the Law published in 1967, an edition in 1000 numbered copies by the Solar Lodge Press. Before this year, no edition had been published anywhere in the world since 1942, by the Church of Thelema / OTO, out of Pasadena. By publishing this inexpensive version of Thelema’s main holy text, Kay was doing a valuable service. (In 1969, Kay would go on to publish a version of the Crowley / Harris Thoth tarot deck.)Overall, 1967 was a time in history when Crowleyanity was reawakening, especially in Southern California. A small group of people led by Grady Louis McMurtry and others were planning to re-start the OTO, trying to reunite members of the old Agape Lodge.This popular edition in Good condition has 44pp. The covers are a bit darkened as common, hint of rubbing. The right side of the top edge has evidently received a small blow from above, slightly bending that corner’s pages backward. Internally tight, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

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