Konx Om Pax

(Second 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:

circa February 1908.

Publisher:

Walter Scott Publishing Co. / Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).

Printer:

Chiswick Press.

Published At:

London / Boleskine, foyers, Inverness.

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.

Edition:

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.

 

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Contents

 

- Dedication and Counter-Dedication.

- The Wake World.

- Ali Sloper.

- Thien Tao.

- The Stone of Abeignus.

 

 

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