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Kenneth Grant reprints

 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
21:34 / 16.09.04
Here's a letter from Starfire that seemed pertinent to post:


Hello Jason,

Thanks for your enquiry. Yes, we will be reprinting all of the Typhonian
Trilogies in revised, reset, and updated editions. We will begin with
"Outside the Circles of Time", as this is the only one not reprinted, and
thus most in demand. After that, we shall begin from "The Magical Revival",
and do them in order.

However, Kenneth Grant desires for us to issue his newer books first, before
reprinting the old. Currently in production is "Convolvulus", his collected
poems from the 1940's to the present day, together with drawings by Austin
Osman Spare.

Work on the Trilogies has begun, although no publication dates are set as
yet. We hope to issue 'Circles' sometime next year.

Following "Convolvulus", we will be publishing an extraordinary gnostic
grimoire of sexual magick, Donald Tyson's "Liber Lilith". This book was
turned down by his usual publisher Llewellyn for being "too dark"! It's not
hard to see why, and it should cause quite a stir.

This will be followed by the long-awaited "Starfire" Vol 2 No 3.

Future projects in the pipeline include Kenneth Grant's "At the Feet of the
Guru", a collection of essays on Eastern Mysticism, originally written for
Asian journals in the 50's and 60's, and "Monolith", his new book exploring
some of the themes from "Against the Light" and "The Ninth Arch". Also in
the pipeline is the long-awaited "Nightside Tarot", which should lob a dark
matter hand-grenade into the ranks of all the New Age Tarot freaks!

I have added you to our mailing list so that you will be kept informed of
developments.

regards,


Robert Taylor
Starfire Publishing Ltd
BCM Starfire
London WC1N 3XX
UK
 
 
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21:43 / 17.09.04
Hey, thanks for posting this... I was wondering when they'd get around to republishing the Typhonian Trilogies. I look foward to updating my collection, as a few of my Grant books are old and beat-up (especially my copy of "Outside the Circles of Time", a few pages of which are covered with mysterious streaks of a dried-up pink-purple slime-like substance, like snail or slug lines). Some of those other books sound interesting too, like "Liber Lilith". I'll have to keep a watch on this.

Yeah, I've become a bit of a Kenneth Grant fanboy over the last year, but honestly I probably enjoy reading his books more then any other occult book I've ever come across, though Hine and Spare's work come close.
 
  
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