Aleister Crowley Collection Vol. 4 - Writings from Vanity Fair

A CIGAR is like a wife! 

Put it to your lips, and light it; 

When you’ve learnt to do it right, it 

Adds a certain zest to life. 

Mind you keep on puffing it, 

Or it’s out, and can’t be lit. 

Ah, the aroma! Ah, the glow! 

Will you have one? Thank you, No. 

- Aleister Crowley, Vanity Fair January, 1916 


Fans of Aleister Crowley are in for a treat with Volume 4 of the Aleister Crowley Collection. 


Included in this volume are the series of articles Crowley penned for Vanity Fair during the Great War. Subject matter ranges from ‘On The Management of Blondes’ to Japanese verse, Polo and various other arcane matters. All delivered with the same non-PC, inimitable devil-may-care wit one expects from ‘The Wickedest Man Alive.’ 


All 17 Vanity Fair pieces are included here: 


Bernard Shaw on Self-Effacement 

Aleister Crowley: Mystic and Mountain Climber 

Eight Vampire Women 

The Hokku – A New Verse Form 

A Hindu at the Polo Grounds 

Colloque Sentimental 

With Muted Strings 

The Prize Winners of the Hokku Contest 

Six Little Poems In Prose 

The Nonsense About Vers Libre 

Three Great Hoaxes of the War 

Anna of Havana 

To A Brunette 

Ratan Devi: Indian Singer 

On The Management of Blondes 

The Origin of the Game of Pirate Bridge 

What’s Wrong with the Movies? 


*Fully illustrated. 

*Special low-price.