Bump into Heaven
HARRIS, Frieda
London: The Mitre Press. n.d. [1957/8].
Description:
First edition. 8vo 183x122mm. pp. 64. Original bright blue cloth lettered in gilt with original illustrated dust jacket. Some very minor marking and rubbing to the jacket and slight soiling to the spine. Internally there is some mild foxing in one or two places but overall a very good copy. Rare in commerce and with eight copies recorded institutionally.
Frieda Harris was, in the words of her husband "an artist and a good one. She takes her art seriously, in fact works at her painting seven days a week and generally twelve hours out of the twenty-four. She has had an immense output of pictures". She is best remembered today as a devoted colleague and disciple of Aleister Crowley for whose deck of Thoth Tarot cards she produced the paintings. Both Harris and Crowley were perfectionists and the whole project took five years. Although the pictures were frequently shown in galleries and The Book of Thoth was published in 1944, no complete, full colour pack of cards was produced during Harris or Crowley's lifetime.
Harris's poetry represents the more secretive, private side of her life. The work collected in Bump into Heaven is spare, simple and spiritual, much influenced by nature, religion, the world of dreams and India which became her home from 1952 until her death in 1962.
Description:
First edition. 8vo 183x122mm. pp. 64. Original bright blue cloth lettered in gilt with original illustrated dust jacket. Some very minor marking and rubbing to the jacket and slight soiling to the spine. Internally there is some mild foxing in one or two places but overall a very good copy. Rare in commerce and with eight copies recorded institutionally.
Frieda Harris was, in the words of her husband "an artist and a good one. She takes her art seriously, in fact works at her painting seven days a week and generally twelve hours out of the twenty-four. She has had an immense output of pictures". She is best remembered today as a devoted colleague and disciple of Aleister Crowley for whose deck of Thoth Tarot cards she produced the paintings. Both Harris and Crowley were perfectionists and the whole project took five years. Although the pictures were frequently shown in galleries and The Book of Thoth was published in 1944, no complete, full colour pack of cards was produced during Harris or Crowley's lifetime.
Harris's poetry represents the more secretive, private side of her life. The work collected in Bump into Heaven is spare, simple and spiritual, much influenced by nature, religion, the world of dreams and India which became her home from 1952 until her death in 1962.