Description
Aleister Crowley; John Symonds
Duckworth, London, 1973. Hardcover with dust-jacket. 118 pages. Edited with introduction by John Symonds. Mild shelf-wear, Near Fine.
White Stains, the first substantial collection of verse that Crowley compiled, was issued privately and anonymously by Leonad Smithers (publisher of Beardsley, Beerbohm, Dyson, Symons and Wilde) in 1898, in a limited edition of only 100 copies (most of which were destroyed by H.M. Customs in 1924). This re-designed, reset edition has an introduction by John Symonds, Crowley’s literary executor and biographer.