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Correspondence from Montgomery Evans to Aleister Crowley
23 Christopher Street, New York City,
January 30, 1927.
Dear A. C.
Was glad to have your last letter. Only one question remains unanswered. I expressed it badly, when enquiring the history of The World's Tragedy. What became of the copies? How many remain, and where were they sold?
Samuel Bin Aiwaz [Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs] is very enthusiastic about the two manuscripts I showed him, and wants to publish them, I gave Germer [Karl Germer] his address, and hope they will come to satisfactory terms. You may depend on Jacobs doing a good book, as regards format and printing.
Nothing new, the reports from dealers show only a few sales of Book Four [Part I & Part II], not worth while collecting as yet. However one of them has interested a customer who may be interested in all your books.
Now as to the London stock. Frank Hollings and Marks should be glad to take copies for their catalogues, and the enclosed clipping from Elkin Mathews catalogue seems to indicate that they are interested. Where did they get the mss? The following titles should be represented in the New York stock:
Mortaldello, 5; Winged Beetle, 5 ordinary and 3 handmade Alice, 5 ordinary and 3 India Songs of the Spirit, 5 ordinary and 3 handmade Jephthah, 10 copies Ahab, 5 ordinary and 1 vellum In Residence, 1 Star and Garter, 1 handmade Konx Om Pax, 15 bound, and 50 in sheets Tannhäuser, 5 Soul of Osiris, 10 ordinary Rosa Mundi, Rosa Inferni, & Rosa Coeli, 25 of each. Orpheus, 5 copies of each volume Star in the West, 25 copies of 2d edition. Jezebel, 2 copies Oracles, 10 Rodin in Rime, 25 copies. Sword of Song, 5 copies first edition, and a few of later printings Why Jesus Wept, 5 firsts and a few later Collected Works, 10 of each vol in camel hair, and 5 of each in vellum. Any copies of Liber Cordis, Liber Legis, or Liber Liberi that may be found.
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