Aleister Crowley, October 18th, 1875 - December 1st, 1947, The Last Ritual, Read from His Own Works, According to His Wish, on December 5th, 1947, at Brighton

Facsimile edition. 12pp booklet in light card covers, printed and illustrated. Tipped in frontispiece. Slim 4to. Card covers have a little edge wear, especially along fore edge, faded around margins with a few mild crinkles on reverse. Internally the pages have a few creases around edges else generally neat, clean, bright and tight. Aleister Crowley was a British mystic, writer, poet and occultist, nicknamed 'The Wickedest Man in the World'. A booklet was issued to mourners at his cremation in Brighton in December 1947, according to his instructions. This facsimile edition was printed using the original printing plates which were rediscovered in 1988 - as such, as claimed in the introduction 'it is the only one to be produced from the original printing materials...and so in a sense is the only true second edition'. Scarce item.