The Book of Lies : Which is also Falsely Called Breaks : The Wanderings of Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo Which Thought Is Itself Untrue

Ilfracombe, England: The Haydn Press, 1962. 196pp; frontis; plate. Small 8vo. Black cloth titled in gilt to spine; no jacket. Bumping to corners and edges of boards; cloth with some soiling/dampstaining; textblock mildly toned; mild musty odor. Good to very good.

Uncommon reprint edition of this 1913 work by English occultist and writer Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). This edition the first to include Crowley's commentaries accompanying each of the 91 chapters, as edited by Karl J. Germer, who succeeded Crowley as the Ordo Templi Orientis's Outer Head of the Order (OHO). With a photographic frontispiece of Crowley astride a donkey, and a photographic plate opposite p. 164 depicting Crowley's muse, Leila Waddell. Protected now by a custom-cut archival mylar dust jacket.