SYMONDS, John - The Great Beast : The Life of Aleister Crowley - !st Ed Hardcover)

Book still in fair condition. ****   Rider & Company, London, 1951. Hardcover. - First Edition, first printing. -  316 pages -  Blue cloth lettered in very slightly defective in gold at spine. - With a portrait frontispiece - A scarce book - The first of Symonds four biographical books on Crowley. (Symonds met Crowley a year before his death in 1947 and was named his literary executor. He was fascinated yet quite critical of his subject, leading Crowley's personal secretary Israel Regardie to label him "that most hostile biographer"). 

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