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[CROWLEY, Aleister] Snowdrops From a Curate’s Garden
[CROWLEY, Aleister] Snowdrops From a Curate’s Garden
Edited with a Prolegomenon by Martin P. Starr
Chicago: Teitan Press, 1986. First Edition Thus. Corrected, reset edition with notes and glossary. Hardcover. Large octavo. 198 pp. Bound in cream colored cloth over boards with gilt Crowley signature to front and gilt titles to spine. Black and white frontis photo. A couple of tiny indentations to front of the dust jacket near the spine, otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket.
This was originally printed privately (and anonymously) in 1904 in an edition of 100 copies, most of which were destroyed by Her Majesty’s Customs in 1926. To amuse his wife Rose, whose literary interests were confined to pornography, Crowley decided to write for her the most ridiculously extreme sexual fantasy ever composed (the title of the prologue is The Cocksucker’s Crime; or The Cunt of the Countess - which should give one an idea of what to expect right from the start). No taboo escaped unviolated - sodomy, pederasty, bestiality, necrophilia, urolagnia, coprophagia, figure prominently in the text. The protagonist is no less than an Archbishop, incorporating the grand tradition of anti-clericalism which had been a feature of popular pornography for centuries.