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CROWLEY, Aleister (1875–1947). The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw. Barstow, CA [and Hampton, N.J.:] Karl J. Germer for] Thelma Publishing Company, [1953]. Small 4to. [iv], 238 pp. Mimeographed typescript (some penciling and underling). Original maroon textured covers, spiral bound (small loss at end near head). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE one of 60 (Yorke’s estimation) to 200 (Cornelius’ estimation) copies. Originally intended to be published in The Equinox Vol. 3, No. 2, the work was unable to raise the funds for release of the printed pages and the money required to have the book bound so the unbound pages were eventually destroyed sometime around 1928. Crowley retained a bound set of page proofs but were later stolen around 1943. This edition was duplicated from the plastiplates typed on an electric typewriter by Ruth Soule. We could only locate one copy selling in the rooms (Sotheby’s, 1971) and one copy institutionally (Warburg Institute, Crowley’s annotated copy). York, p. 61.