Olla:

An Anthology of Sixty Years of Song

 

 

This book has a portrait of Aleister Crowley, executed by Augustus John during a visit in July 1946, as a frontispiece.

     

The publication address [121 Adelaide Road, London, N.W.3] is that of John Symonds' London flat.

 

Published Date:

22 December 1946 at 10:54 a.m.

Publisher:

Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).

Printer:

W. A. Guy Ltd, High Street, Hastings. 

Published At:

121 Adelaide Road, London, N.W.3.

Pages:

128.

Price:

10 Guineas for State (a).

15 shillings for State (b).

State (a):

20 copies printed on pre-war mould-made paper and bound in quarter Morocco leather with patterned boards in a four-color Egyptian design.

State (b):

500 copies printed on machine-made paper and bound in brown or dark green cloth.

Has a dust jacket designed by Frieda Harris.

 

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Contents

 

- Apologia

- Epigrams

   “Who Loves the Truth” — Mόnchen

   Optimist — Washington D.C.

- My First Poem — Cambridge, England

- The Happy Man — Mexico, D.F.

- The Tyler — Cambridge, England

- The Purple Mandarin — Yung Chang

- On Garret Hostel Bridge — Cambridge, England

- The Dynast — Great Eastern Erg

- An Oath — Marseilles

- Styx — Copenhagen

- The Jolly Barber — Naples

- The Balloon — Llyn Idwal Farm

- Prayer at Sunset — Tali Fu

- Penelope — Hango

- Panacea — Hastings

- On Waikiki Beach — Waikiki

- Knight Takes Bishop, Check ! — Stockholm

- The Arhan — Akyab

- The Jungle of Elizabeth Arden — Chicago

- La Verge — Sousse

- Pacific Surf — Oahu

- Figure Genethliacal — Rangoon

- On the Mindoon Chong — On the Mindoon Chong

- The Owl — Cefalϋ

- In Vera Cruz Harbor — Vera Cruz

- Puss-in-Boots — El Oued

- Hong Kong Harbour — Hong Kong Harbour

- Rosa Decidua — Coulsdon Park

- The Spring of Dirce — 3-3 — Paris

- Kali — Kalighat
- A Slice of Mortadello — Cafι Riche Paris

- Almira — Detroit

- El Fatihah (From the Arabic) — Mish

- Reasoner and Rimer — Heidelburg

- The Eyes of Pharaoh — Al Kahira

- The Beauty and the Bhikkhu — Kandy, Ceylon

- The King-Ghost — China

- Beri-Beri — The Inland Sea

- The Sevenfold Sacrament — Montigny-sur-Loing

- Forty Years On — Brighton

- Dionysus — Boleskine

- In My Harem — Fontainebleau

- Sarcoma of the Tibia — New York

- Sunset of Romance — Tunis

- The Jealous Patriot — Richmond, Surrey

- White Hope — London

- The Tent — W’aint t’ Aissha

- Verses for an Antichristmas Card — Chipping Campden

- Happy Dust

- Logos — Hastings

- The Baboon — Tolga

- The Camel — Rawal Pindi

- Canoe Song — Oesopus Island, Hudson River

- Epithalamium instead of a Present — Maidenhead

- At Touggourt

- The Return of Messalina — Rome

- L’Etincelle — Querouaille

- The Secret — Moscow

- Song of the Regular Fellow — Baltoro Glacier Camp XI

- La Gitana — Granada

- The Bean Pedlar — Palm Groves beyond Nefta

- Thanatos Basileos — Hastings

- The Garden of Janus — Da’leh-ad-Din (A Mountain near Bou-Saada)

- Hymn to Pan — Moscow

 

 

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