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CROWLEY, Aleister (1875–1947). Konx Om Pax. Essays in Light. London and Felling–on–Tyne: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1907. Square 8vo. Portrait photogravure of Crowley by Aimé Dupont, with tissue guard as issued. Original publisher’s gilt–decorated cream buckram, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine toned with few tiny spots of fraying at extreme ends, some dust soiling or toning to covers, mild cockling to lower cover). LIMITED EDITION, number 130 of 500 copies on handmade paper SIGNED BY CROWLEY on limitation. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CROWLEY, on front free endpaper to an unknown recipient (evidence of erasure) dated 19 January 1909: “My Dear (?), Please accept this book. I think you will like the binding much better than the previous effort […] I hope the country is restoring you + that you will be able to keep trim(?) after all. Fuller + I are thinking of going up next week – it won’t be half itself without you. Yours Aleister Crowley”. Yorke 56.