Description
A Gentleman of Hastings (Antony Clayton)
Accumulator Press, London, Hastings & Cosmopoli, 2017. Hardcover with page marker ribbon. First published in hardcover 2012. This Second Edition (revised) limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Additional contributions from Gary Lachman (Frater Amor Fati) & Andy Sharp (The English Heretic). Foreward by Anok Pe (David Tibet). Illustrated with four pages of colour and twenty-four black and white throughout. This copy numbered 489/500. Signed by the author. As New/Fine.
A fascinating study of Netherwood, the guest-house in Hastings and the time spent there by its most famous resident, Aleister Crowley. In addition to a background history of the building, the book includes a lengthy chapter on each of the years that Crowley spent there, exploring the daily life of the Beast in his final years, and his interactions with other guests and those who visited him, including Kenneth Grant, David Curwen, John Symonds and others.
Includes a postcard with an image of Aleister Crowley on it and several loose leaf enclosures :
- Reproduction of Netherwood guesthouse brochure c.1939/40 (courtesy of Bridget Smith)
- Reproduction of Netherwood guesthouse brochure c.mid-1960s (scan courtesy of John Bonner of the UK Grand Lodge OTO Archives) with note showing ‘ROOM ON FIRST FLOOR WHERE AC DIED’.
- View of south front of “Netherwood” Hastings [signed Barbara] reproduced as a postcard (n.d.)
