The King of the Shadow Realm: Aleister Crowley - His Life and Magic

First edition, first impression.  x, 588pp.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little rounded at spine ends, bump to rear upper corner resulting is slight inward bend over corner. Slight forward lean. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, bumped around edges, shelf worn, slightly sunned over spine.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A much expanded reworking of the author's first biography (The Great Beast, 1951) of the English occultist and ceremonial magician, founder of the religion of Thelema and self-proclaimed prophet.