The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz by Aleister Crowley

The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz by Aleister Crowley (Author)

Teitan Press (1991), Edition: 1st / facsimile, Hardcover, 137 pages

Condition: Pre-owned / Good

One of Crowley's rarest works: part homo-erotic parody, and part mystical text. As described in Crowley scholar Martin P. Starr's Introduction to the 1991 facsimile edition, there were only 200 copies of the book printed, but many of these were destroyed in a customs seizure not long after publication, so that even before the beginning of the First World War Crowley was speaking of its rarity. A second customs seizure (1924) depleted the number of surviving copies yet further, and it is consequently one of Crowley's rarest works.