Correspondence from Karl Germer to Philip Kaplan

 

     

 

Karl Germer

2432 Laurel Pass

Hollywood 46, Cal.

 

 

April 9, 1957.

 

 

Dear Mr. Kaplan:

 

You must think me a cad, or whatever it is, for having neglected to attend to your letter of Jan. 15 of this year for so long. It is simply that I have been in a frightful mess. Too long to explain. However, it seems that I am at last in a residence which I can consider lasting for some months—unless something blows up in some part of the world.—I expect to collect my archives at this place in a few weeks, when the present party moves out, and can once more get some order in my things.

     

I have the album of photos here and will see about sending it by Express to you to-day or to-morrow. If you can return it to me within a few weeks, it will be allright.

     

As to "Snowdrops" [Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden], I won't have my TS. [typescript] before all my things get here, i.e. in 2 or 3 weeks and will than loan it to you.

     

You ask about some of the books of which I have some copies left. I enclose a copy of a list of books I have available with the prices set for a dealer in Hollywood, on which he gets 40%. You know the ethics of the trade, and I believe I am justified in giving you the same discount. The book "Olla" is an exception, you can have this for $1.00 net.—"777" allows only 33—1/3% discount on the price listed. All other 40%.

     

I apologize again for my negligence, and hoping all is well at your end, and with kind regards to Sam Jacobs [Samuel Jacobs] and yourself,

 

Sincerely yours

 

Karl Germer

 


 

LIST OF AVAILABLE BOOKS

BY ALEISTER CROWLEY—

 

1.

LITTLE ESSAYS TOWARDS TRUTH. Formerly called the Wine of the Graal. A collection of seventeen essays which constitute in themselves a complete system of initiation. With glossary and folding diagram in back. London 1938, blue buckram, 96 pp, six and a half by five inches. Small edition.

$    7.00

2

THE HEART OF THE MASTER. By Khaled Khan (Aleister Crowley). A sublime masterpiece describing the Vision given upon the holy hill of Sidi Bou Saad. London 1938, yello [sic] buckram. 40 pp, six and a half by five inches. Small edition.

$    7.50

3.

THE BOOK OF THE LAW. Small popular London edition, giving the full text of the Book with an introduction by Aleister Crowley. London 1938. Paper cover, 47 pp, six and a half by 5 inches.

$    1.00

4.

DITTO, Pasadena edition.

$    1.00

5.

THE ARGONAUTS. A mystery play in five acts in verse. Boleskine, 1904. Original camel hair binding, 110 pp, seven by 5 inches.

$    6.50

6.

ORACLES. THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ART. With explanatory notes by R. P. Lester and the author. Boleskine 1905. Original camel hair binding, 175 pp, seven by five inches. 2nd. Edition.

$    6.50

7.

COLLECTED WORKS. Poetry and prose. Contains among others philosophical essays such as "Science and Buddhism," "Time," "Berashith," "An Essay on Ontology," etc. Three volumes. Traveller's edition on thin Japanese paper. Foyers 1905-1906-1907. Camel Hair binding, 800 pp, seven by five inches.

$  15.00

8.

EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA. By Mahatma Guru Sri Pahamahamsa Shivaji (Aleister Crowley). The deepest, philosophically penetrating book written on Yoga. With frontispiece. London 1939. Cloth, 84 pp, eleven and a half by eight and a half inches.

$  12.50

9.

OLLA, AN ANTHOLOGY OF SIXTY YEARS OF SONG. With frontispiece drawing of the author by Augustus John. London 1946. Cloth, 128 pp, eleven and a half by eight and a half inches.

$    6.00

10.

THE VISION AND THE VOICE, being of the Angels of the Thirty Aethyrs. With an introduction and an elaborate commentary by the Master Therion. These are invocations of the Angels of the Thirty Aethyrs first contacted by Sir Edward Kelly and Dr. John Dee at the time of Queen Elizabeth. They belong to the Enochian System and transcend the sphere of the Tree of Life. Barstow 1952. Offset print. imit. leather cover, 163 pp, eleven and a half by eight and a half inches.

$    5.00

11.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. BERNARD SHAW. A criticism of the origins of Christianity. Barstow 1953. Offset printing, imitation leather cover, 238 pp, eleven and a half by eight and a half inches.

$    5.00

12.

THE FUN OF THE FAIR. A "grand reportage" in verse. Being the experiences and observations made by the author on the occasion of his visit to Moscow and Nijni Novgorod in 1913. With an introduction by Louis Marlow [Louis Wilkinson] who "extols his wit, irony, vigour, raciness and verve." London 1942. With frontispiece and signature of the author. Printed on hand made paper, paper covers, 23 pp. ten by six and a half pages.

$    3.50

13.

THE CITY OF GOD, A RHAPSODY. The complement of The Fun of the Fair. With a preface and frontispiece. Also Liber LXXVII [Liber OZ] as an appendix. London 1943. On hand made paper, paper covers, 12pp. ten by six and a half inches.

$    3.50

14.

THUMBS UP! Five Poems. Hollywood 1942. Paper wrapper, 8pp. nine by six and a half inches.

$    1.00

15.

ONE STAR IN SIGHT. Reprint from the Equinox III, 1. Sixteen pages. Paper wrapper, nine by six inches.

$    3.00

16.

BOOK FOUR, PART I. A concise and clear treatise on Yoga and Mysticism. With two photographs. London (1912?) Paper cover, 94 pp. five and one third by five and one third inches.

$  12.50

17.

THE STAR AND THE GARTER. A poem. Foyers 1904. Camel hair covers. 78 pp. eleven by eight and a half inches.

$  12.00

18.

THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY AND OTHER POEMS. Foyers 1907. Blue buckram. 111 pp. nine by six inches.

$  12.50

19.

ORPHEUS, A LYRICAL LEGEND. Foyers 1905. Two volumes, de luxe set, on hand made paper. Vol I 155 pp. Vol II 147 pp. nine by six in.

$  30.00

20.

LIBER "777". A re-issue of one of the most famous handbooks by Aleister Crowley on the Qabalah, Magick and Mysticism. The first edition of 1909 had fifty-four pages. It had become unobtainable and was sold for seventy-five dollars and more. The present edition has been extended to a hundred and fifty-five pages. It contains, besides a reprint of the original, eight essays by Aleister Crowley which he wanted included in his new edition. Worthily produces on good paper, blue buckram binding and vellum spine. London 1955, nine by five and a half inches.

$  10.50

21.

THE EQUINOX OF THE GODS. Being Vol III, 3 of The Equinox. Beautifully printed in 16 point Bembo type, on the finest paper. With frontispiece in four colours and separate folder containing the facsimile in photo-lithography of the original handwritten text of the Book of the Law, as given in 1904. First issue 1936. Second issue, 1937. The present issue is of 1955. Cloth binding. The book is ten and a half by eight inches, the folder is twelve by 10.

$  12.50

22.

"The Holy Books [Volume I, Volume II, Volume III]". Multigraph reproduction of inspired works by Aleister Crowley, out of print, consisting of:

     Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, with Commentary

     Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli

     Liber Trigrammaton

     Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita

Price on

request

 

 

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