The Equinox; The Official Organ of the A\A\; The Review of Scientific Illusminism; Vol. I, No. VI (September Mcmxi O.S.

London, UK: Wieland & Co. NONE [NONE] 1911. (hardcover) xiv + 170 + vi + 124 + x (Advertisements). Very good, no dust jacket. 8vo. VERY SCARCE. Bound in decorated paper boards; the upper cover has the Equinox Coat of Arms design. Brown cloth spine with printed paper title label. The spine is worn and faded, the title block lightly chipped, although there is only one letter (X) of the text absent; remarkably intact. The Equinox was the first important effort to publish and thereby make available the facts of occult science and to write about the subject from academic and scientific perspectives. This edition includes the contributions of Aleistar Crowley, long thought by many to have been the editor; Poems for Jane Cheron, the Scorpion, the Big Stick, and the Rites of Eleusis (Supplement) are included. The work of Ethel Archer, Francis Bendick, Martial Nay, Victor J.I. Neuburg, John Yarker, E Whineray also included.There is an unusual paste-down book plate to the inside front cover, and it is starting, lightly, at the inside front hinge. The A\A\ was founded by Crowley and the Equinox was first published in 1909. The last issue was published in 1998. The first volume of ten numbers (of which this is number 6) published between 1909 and 1913, and in runs of only 1,000 copies for the early numbers, and probably only 500 in the later numbers. Internally clean and bright, extraordinarily so. The Method of Science - the Aim of Religion..