Konx Om Pax

(First Issue)

The front cover is said to have been designed by Crowley while on hashish on 2 October 1907.

Konx Om Pax was published three separate issues.

These issues consisted of:

1) The first issue was privately published by Aleister Crowley and consisted of:

a) 1 copy printed on vellum.

b) 10 copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in white buckram.

2) The second issue was privately published by the Walter Scott Publishing Company / Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.) and consisted of:

a) As few as 100 copies may be bound in black cloth. Although the limitation notice in this issue states 500 copies printed on hand-made paper, this issue was actually printed on machine-made paper, printed cross-grain. The limitation page states “Each copy numbered and signed” but many were issued without being numbered and/or signed.

3) The third issue was privately published by the Walter Scott Publishing Company / Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.) and consisted of:

a) Although the limitation notice in this issue states 500 copies printed, the number of copies issued in this variant may be 400 or less. Printed on Dickinson hand-made paper and bound in white buckram. The limitation page states “Each copy numbered and signed” but many were issued without being numbered and/or signed.

Published Date:	1907.
Publisher:	Privately published by the author.
Printer:
Published At:	London.
Pages:	xix + 108 + 2 page catalogue of Crowley's works + 10 pages of reviews of J.F.C. Fuller's book The Star in the West.
Price:	Priced at 10 shillings.
State a:	1 copy printed on vellum.
State b:	10 copies printed on Japanese vellum and bound in white buckram.

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Contents

- Dedication and Counter-Dedication.
- The Wake World.
- Ali Sloper.
- Thien Tao.
- The Stone of Abeignus.

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