THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE. An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley. Inscribed by Regardie.
Saint Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1970.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author (Francis Israel Regardie). Inscribed Presentation Copy to Ursula Greville — Poet, Editor, Literary Confidante by Israel Regardie.
Stated First Edition / First Printing. Octavo. Bound in the publisher’s black cloth, gilt-stamped on the spine. Light wear to the board extremities and to the crown and foot of the spine. Three small page notations on the final free endpaper. A near fine copy internally.
Warmly inscribed by Israel Regardie:
“For Ursula / who did some editing on this magnum opus / Love, Francis.”
This superb association copy bridges literature, occultism, and personal history. Ursula Greville (1894–1991) was a poet, editor, and literary figure whose circle included avant-garde artists and esoteric thinkers. Regardie and Greville’s decades-long friendship included her editorial contributions to this very work. In his earlier mystical poem AHA! Regardie dedicated the book to her as a “loving, generous, devoted friend of many years who, like Aleister Crowley, changed the entire course of my life.”
Dustwrapper: Not price-clipped, retaining the original $10.00 publisher’s price on the front flap. There is a 1" × 2" chip missing from the top right corner of the front panel with a 2" closed tear nearby; the crown of the spine has several small chips missing. Now protected in archival mylar.
From the dustwrapper: “Many of Crowley’s loveliest and holiest works are quoted from sources long out of print. THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE is essential to an understanding not only of Crowley but of all modern magic and occultism.”
In THE EYE IN THE TRIANGLE, Regardie — once Crowley’s secretary — offers a “sympathetically objective” portrait of the man reviled by the press as “The Most Evil Man in the World” and hailed by others as the “Prophet of a New Aeon.”
Presentation copies inscribed by Regardie to Ursula Greville — a key editorial and personal influence — are extremely rare.
Item #34165 Price: US$2,500.00