The Teitan Press

The Teitan Press is a small publishing house specialising in books by and relating to Aleister Crowley, and to scholarly works on the occult.

==History==
The Teitan Press was founded in Illinois in 1985 by Martin P. Starr and his business partner, Frank Winston. It was started with the aim of producing quality editions of works by and AbOUT Aleister Crowley. Between 1987 and 2003 they produced eight books. Five were new editions of works by Crowley: "Konx om Pax," "Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden," "The Winged Beetle," "The Scented Garden," his translation of Charles Baudelaire's "Little Poems in Prose," and two were first printings of books by Crowley: "The Scrutinies of Simon Iff," and "Golden Twigs." They also published Starr's biography of W. T. Smith, "The Unknown God."

In December 2006, Starr and Winston passed control of The Teitan Press to Weiser Antiquarian Books. The new owners maintained the press's special emphasis on Crowley books, but broadened the scope to include scholarly studies on other aspects of the Western Hermetic tradition. In 2007 they published Frater Shiva's controversial account of his life in the infamous "Solar Lodge" occult group: "Inside Solar Lodge, Outside the Law." Since then they have published ten more books "The Magic Seal of John Dee: The Sigillum Dei Aemeth," by Colin D. Campbell, "Thorn in the Flesh: A Grim-Memoire", by Rosaleen Norton, "The Progradior Correspondence: Letters by Aleister Crowley, Frank Bennett, Charles Stansfeld Jones, & Others" , "The Rosicrucian Seer: Magical Writings of Frederick Hockley," by John Hamill and R. A. Gilbert, "Occult Spells: A Nineteenth Century Grimoire," by Frederick Hockley, with an Introduction by Silens Manus, "A Book of Shadows," Transcribed etc. by pan.zos pagurus, "A Concordance to the Holy Books of Thelema," Edited etc. by Colin D. Campbell and with a Foreword by Richard Kaczynski"Sepher Maphteah Shelomoh (Book of the Key of Solomon)" with Introductions by Hermann Gollancz, and a Foreword by Stephen Skinner, "Three Essays on Freedom" by John 'Jack' Whiteside Parsons with an Introduction by Hymenaeus Beta, and "A Complete Book of Magic Science" by Frederick Hockley with an Introduction by Dietrich Bergman.

==Teitan Press Books==

Teitan Press publications are hard-cover books, cloth bound and sewn, printed on low-acid paper, and a number incorporate color and black and white plates, photographic reproductions of original manuscripts etc. Due to the specialized nature of their subject matter, all have had relatively small print-runs, and the more recent volumes have been issued as numbered, limited editions. As a consequence they have a tendency to go sell out faster than some mass-market works, and many of their early publications are now collector's items.

Bibliography of Books Published by The Teitan Press.

Aleister Crowley, "Scrutinies of Simon Iff," (1987 [1988]) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Aleister Crowley, "Golden Twigs," (1988 [1989]) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Aleister Crowley, "Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden," (1989) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Aleister Crowley, "Konx om Pax," (1990) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Aleister Crowley, "The Scented Garden," (1991) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Aleister Crowley, "The Winged Beetle," (1992) edited by Martin P. Starr.
Charles Baudelaire, "Little Poems in Prose," (1995). Translated by Aleister Crowley, edited by Martin P. Starr.
Martin P. Starr, "The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites," (2003)
Frater Shiva, "Inside Solar Lodge, Outside the Law," (2007)
Frederick Hockley, "Complete Book of Magic Science," (2008), with an Introduction by Dietrich Bergman.
John 'Jack' Whiteside Parsons, "Three Essays on Freedom," (2008). With an Introduction by Hymenaeus Beta.
Hermann Gollancz (Editor), "Sepher Maphteah Shelomoh (Book of the Key of Solomon),"(2008). Introductions by Hermann Gollancz and a Foreword by Stephen Skinner.
Colin D. Campbell (Compiler), "A Concordance to the Holy Books of Thelema," (2008). Edited & With an Introduction by and a Foreword by Dr. Richard Kaczynski.
pan.zos pagurus "A Book of Shadows," (2008).
Frederick Hockley, "Occult Spells: A Nineteenth Century Grimoire," by Frederick Hockley, with an Introduction by Silens Manus (2009).
Frederick Hockley, "The Rosicrucian Seer: Magical Writings of Frederick Hockley," Edited by John Hamill and by R. A. Gilbert (2009).
Aleister Crowley, Frank Bennett, C S Jones, & Others, "The Progradior Correspondence," (2009).
Rosaleen Norton, "Thorn in the Flesh: A Grim-Memoire," Introduction by Keith Richmond. (2009).
Colin D. Campbell, "The Magic Seal of John Dee: The Sigillum Dei Aemeth." (2009).
==References==
==External links==
*The Teitan Press website