MOONCHILD — By Aleister Crowley — 1st Reprint Edition, 1970 HC/DJ — Exceedingly Well Preserved Condition — DOVE PRESS
Publisher: Dove Press, New York (1970)
The book is in exceedingly well preserved condition. Salmon-colored cloth boards with gilt title, etc. to spine. 336pp. The boards and binding are solid and tight and show no visible wear. The pages are crisp and clean, save previous owner's signature and small bookstore stamp on the first blank page. The dust jacket is crisp and in well preserved condition with light shelfwear; small chips to edges. It has been price clipped. Dust jacket comes with protective Mylar plastic jacket. A reprint of Crowley's novel, with the addition of an anonymous page of verse
at the front. This edition was a collaborative effort between Kenneth Anger's
Dove Press and Samuel Weiser Publishing with Weiser Publishing designing the dust jacket. This is the
first North American edition of the book, and actually the first reissue of it
since the original 1929 Mandrake Press edition — preceeding the
"regular" Samuel Weiser Inc. edition of December 1970 by several
months. The book is Crowley's famous second novel which tells the
tale of a young woman caught up in a battle between two magicians, one of whom
seeks to use her body as the vessel for the 'birth' in human form of a
non-human entity: "the Moonchild" of the title.
