[Rarebooks] Crowley, THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND, First edition, Canadian Issue

[Michael John Thompson]

Offering: Crowley, THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND, First edition, Canadian Issue


CROWLEY, Aleister. THE DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND. Toronto: The Ryerson 
Press. No date [1922]. First Canadian edition. Octavo, original blue 
cloth titled and bordered in red on front panel, titled in red on 
spine. 368 pp. The Canadian issue, comprised of the British sheets 
with new preliminaries, in a similar binding to the London edition 
but with "THE RYERSON PRESS" at base of spine. Light rubbing to front 
panel, spine panel lettering rubbed and dull, cloth a bit frayed at 
head & heel of spine panel. Overall, about a very good copy. This 
Canadian edition is rare. At least one on-line database gives the 
erroneous date of 1945 for this edition, a completely incorrect 
assumption. Crowley's first novel, a tale of drug addiction and 
desperation. The story follows Peter Pendragon and Louise Laleham, a 
couple passionately in love, as they fall head-first into a drug 
binge across Europe. The novel encapsulates much of Crowley's core 
philosophy concerning Thelema and his conception of True Will. 
Crowley states in the Preface: "This is a true story. It has been 
rewritten only so far as was necessary to conceal 
personalities."               $650.00

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