Thumbs Up!

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Creator

Aleister Crowley

Title

Thumbs Up!

Coverage

London

Publisher

OTO

Date

1941

Subject

First Edition. Wrappers. Small quarto, with sewn-in original grey-green wrappers. Edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies.

Description

A late work consisting of a few short poems. Presentation copy to Guy Knowles, with whom Crowley had attempted to climb K2 — the world’s second tallest mountain — in 1902. Together they reached a higher altitude than any previous mountaineer and broke a number of alpine records.

Source

From the collection of Matthew Andrews