Anathema of Zos

A5. ANATHEMA OF ZOS

A5a. ANATHEMA | OF ZOS | THE SERMON TO THE | HYPOCRITES | An Automatic Writing | by Austin Osman Spare | [illustration]
Frontis and title page vignette.

Deluxe edition: 12″ X 9.5″; 22 pages; 50 numbered and signed copies, bound in white vellum and printed on Japanese vellum (the prospectus stated “leather-bound”); price three guineas.

A5b. Ordinary edition (as 5a, but with brown paper wraps). 50 copies, numbered and signed; 11 5″ x 9″; hand-made paper; with pictorial end-piece; stiff brown paper cover. Price 6/-.

According to the prospectus, the deluxe copies should have a special bookplate of a pencil and a crayon “vibratory” portrait. However, vellum bound copies do not always have the bookplate and it is occasionally found in ordinary copies. In the Select Bibliography appended to Kenneth and Steffi Grant’s Zos Speaks!, Robert Ansell discusses how copies can be found in either light brown or dark brown wraps. He suggests that the copies in the darker wraps may represent unbound copies of the deluxe edition. Ansell also describes an issue “sewn without wrappers”.

A5c. REPRINTED 1973 - within AGAPE: The Occult Review, Vol. I, No. 4.
8.25″ x 6″ plain grey paper wraps which separate the publication from the rest of the magazine. With a new introduction by Kenneth Grant.

A5d. REPRINTED 1976 - NEPTUNE PRESS, London.
Plain keaycolour feltmark wraps; 11.5″ x 9″; price “7.50.

A5e. MICROFICHE EDITION, c1978 - ASKIN PUBLISHERS.
Sold at “2.

A5f. REPRINTED 1979 - in THE NEW EQUINOX, Vol. 3, pp. 461-467.

A5g. REPRINTED 1982 & 1986 - SORCERER’S APPRENTICE, Leeds.
In Collected Works.

A5h. REPRINTED 1985 - BLACK MOON PUBLISHING, Cincinnati.
Grey card wraps; black taped spine; 11″ x 8.5″. With a new preface by Louis Martin”.

A5i. REPRINTED 1987 - SUT ANUBIS, Northampton.
White card wraps; 8.75″ x 6.25″; 500 copies.

A5j. REPRINTED 1990 & 1993 - BEYOND THE RISING SUN PUBLICATIONS, Glasgow
Grey card Wraps; 10″ x 7″; 200 copies. The 1993 impression has grey wraps with brown lettering, but is still dated 1990.

A5k. REPRINTED 1993 - FIRST IMPRESSIONS, Seattle.
In From the Inferno to Zos .

A5l. REPRINTED 1993 - in THE FENRIS WOLF, No. 3, pp. 106-114.
The text only is reprinted.

A5m. CD-ROM EDITION 1994 - PDSL, Crowborough, Sussex.
Text included as file MYS01171 in MAGIC directory, on 2000 Greater and Lesser Mysteries.

A5n. ITALIAN TRANSLATION, 1988 - EDITRICE ATANOR, Rome.
Translated, with additional material, by Luciano Pirrotta.

Laminated card wraps; 8.5″ x 5″; 1000 numbered copies. With an appendix of five drawings from A Book of Automatic Drawings.

A5o*. GREEK TRANSLATION.
In preparation by O T M T I T of Larisa, Greece.

A5p. CZECH TRANSLATION 1995 - REVUE HORUS 1\95, pp. 56-69.
The text only is reprinted.

A5q. REPRINTED 1996 - in REBELS & DEVILS, NEW FALCON PUBLICATIONS, Tucson. The text only is reprinted.

A5r. ITALIAN TRANSLATION, 1991.
Translated by Roberto Migliussi.
Cream card wraps; 9.5″ X 6.75″; 111 numbered copies. Note: A “2nd edition re-typeset” was announced by 93 Publishing (c1979) but never appeared.

A5s. FRENCH TRANSLATION c 1990 [LA SOCIETE AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE DU QUEBEC, Quebec]. L’Anathame de Zos translated by S.Zimmermann.
Pink papers wraps 8″ x 5 7/8″. The “societe” is referred to by the French distributor of a recent samizdat edition, but is otherwise unknown.

A5t. POLISH TRANSLATION 1988 - in OKULTURA 0, pp 46-54.
Klatwa Zosa translated by Eimi Kion. The text only is reprinted.

A5u. REPRINTED 1989 - in RANTS AND INCENDIARY TRACTS edited by Bob Black & Adam Parfrey, Amok Press, pp 96-104.

A5v. REPRINTED c 1990 - TOPY (CHAOS), AUSTRALIA
Red paper wraps 8″ x 5 7/8″.

A5w. REPRINTED 2000 - RAYNARD ARCANIUM PRESS
15″ x 9″. The prospectus announced - ‘limited subscribers” edition of 180 numbered copies handbound in black Japanese mohair bookcloth using traditional Japanese binding methods” at $22. Also 22 deluxe copies to be bound in Goat Skin Vellum. It is thought that comparatively few copies were actually issued.

A5x. REPRINTED 2001 - I-H-O Books, Thame
Printed, buff card wraps 7″ x 9″ Reset with many additional illustrations.

A5y. GERMAN TRANSLATION 1990
Das Anathema des Zos translated by Michael De Witt, published as part of Gesammelte Werke [See A8c] pp 271-292.

A5aa. GERMAN TRANSLATION 1990
Das Anathema des Zos translated by Michael De Witt, see “Thanateros” in Section F.

A5ab. REPRINTED 2001 - BLAKKSTARR PRESS
As part of Automatism, A collection of writings and drawings by Austin Osman Spare. Subscribers edition of 75 numbered copies 11″ x 18″, handbound decorative paper covered boards. Some copies issued in cloth covered boards, with matching wraparound outer cover.

A5ac. ITALIAN TRANSLATION 2001
Privately published Calcinaia, Italy October 2001. Translated and introduced by Roberto Migliussi, preface by Kenneth Grant. Buff card wraps 15 cm x 21 cm 200 numbered copies.

A5ad. SPANISH TRANSLATION
Anatema de Zos published on the internet. Just the text is reproduced.

A5ae. FRENCH TRANSLATION
L’Anatheme de Zos translated by Philippe Pissier published on the internet.

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