1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author (Francis Israel Regardie). Presentation Copy. 8vo., A near fine copy in the publisher’s black cloth, gilt – in a lightly used dust wrapper. Regardie has warmly inscribed this book to Ursula Greville: “For Ursula / who did some editing on this magnum opus / Love, Francis.” {Regardie dedicated AHA! to Ursula Greville a ‘loving, generous, devoted friend of many years who, like Aleister Crowley changed the entire course of my life.’} This is a stated First Edition / First Printing. There is some light wear to the board’s extremities & to the crown and foot of the book’s spine. There are three small page notations on the final free endpaper.
The dust wrapper is not price clipped; with the original publisher’s price of $10.00 still intact on the front flap. There is a 1″ x 2″ chip missing from the top right corner of the front panel and a 2″ closed tear in the same area. There are several small chips missing from the crown of the DJ’s spine. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1970.
“Aleister Crowley has for years been reviled by the public media as ‘The Most Evil Man in the World.’ And he has for years been hailed by a small handful of scholars as the greatest of modern mystics, the ‘Prophet of a New Aeon.’ Now, The Eye in the Triangle appears to clear up some aspects of the dual mystery.
In this book Israel Regardie examines the life and work of Aleister Crowley from a sympathetically objective point of view. Many of Crowley’s loveliest and holiest works are quoted from sources long out of print. The Eye in the Triangle is essential to an understanding not only of Crowley but of all modern magic and occultism.” — from the book’s dust wrapper.
THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE. Interpretation of Aleister Crowley. Inscribed by Israel Regardie
$2500
First edition, signed and warmly inscribed by Israel Regardie to Ursula Greville, in near fine condition with the original unclipped dust jacket.
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Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein, Signed 1st Edition
$117501st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. “A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war”. First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dust wrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller’s sticker at the top of the inside flap].
Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: “To John James who says Ma”am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46″. Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy.
An extremely good example. In “Wars I Have Seen” (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did – the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived – and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin’s kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne (“quite quietly to some one who came to see me”) and no longer needed money. “And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that.” -
