Aleister Crowley’s personal copy of his three-volume Collected Works–a one-of-a-kind set printed on vellum and bound in red crushed levant morocco by the famous book binder Zaehnsdorf–just sold at Christie’s for $37,500. It was inscribed in Crowley’s hand, “This unique copy is the sole and inalienable property of Aleister Crowley and shall devolve as an heirloom to his heirs.”
Of the rare Crowley books rediscovered in the late 1950s in storage at Detroit’s Leonard Warehouse, this is one of three pieces that did not make it into the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
More information on the book is available at Christie’s.
