2024 First Edition Deluxe Issue
IO TYPHON
By Harper Feist
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Leather, octodecimo or eighteenmo (18mo 4 × 6 1⁄2 in 102 × 165 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Grayle Press, USA, 2024
Language: English
Limited Edition: 6/23 Copies
Illustrated By: Rowan E. Cassidy
Collation: pp. 190
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002370
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
IO TYPHON
A Hymnal
One of only 23 hand-numbered deluxe copies · Full leather · Slipcased · Additional hymn exclusive to the deluxe issue
A striking deluxe issue of Harper Feist's IO TYPHON: A Hymnal, an exploration and invocation of Typhon-Set: the syncretic Greco-Egyptian figure combining the Greek Typhon with the Egyptian god Set, encountered with particular force in the magical traditions of late antiquity and the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri.
Published by Grayle Press in a standard limited issue of 219 copies and an exceptionally small deluxe issue of only 23 hand-numbered copies, this is copy no. 6/23. The deluxe issue is substantially differentiated from the standard edition, being bound in full dark-grey leather, housed in a matching black slipcase, and incorporating an additional hymn by Harper Feist not present in the standard issue.
The physical production is particularly successful. Both binding and slipcase carry a large foil-stamped dragon device; the spine is lettered and numbered in red; the volume has striking viscera-like marbled endpapers, grey-and-red headbands and Smyth-sewn construction. Printed on heavy cream stock and illustrated by Rowan E. Cassidy with three black-and-white compositions and seven sigils, it is conceived as much as an esoteric book-object as a work of contemporary ritual literature.
The work centres upon Typhon-Set as a power of revolt, disruption, liberation and transformation. Drawing upon classical and Egyptian mythology, late-antique magical traditions and modern ceremonial magic, Feist presents a sequence of hymns and invocations in which Typhon-Set appears as the adversarial force capable of scattering enemies, breaking bonds, overturning established orders and creating the conditions from which something new may arise.
Among its literary and magical reference points are deliberate engagements with the biblical Book of Job and Aleister Crowley's Liber ARARITA. The resulting work occupies the boundary between ritual invocation, devotional poetry and contemporary theurgical writing, treating Typhon-Set not simply as a figure of destruction but as an agent of radical transformation, freedom, power and gnosis.
IO TYPHON forms the second instalment in the Grayle Press sequence following Lioness: A New Hymn to Inanna and shares its compact 3.5 × 6 inch format.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
An unread example of the exceptionally scarce deluxe issue, hand-numbered 6 of only 23 copies.
Bound in full dark-grey leather with red-stamped spine and large foil-stamped dragon device to the front board. Matching black slipcase with the same dragon device. Binding clean and unworn, with corners and spine ends sharp. Red spine stamping remains strong and clearly defined.
Striking viscera-like marbled endpapers; grey-and-red headbands; Smyth-sewn construction. Internally fresh and clean, printed on substantial 100-lb cream paper. No ownership inscriptions or other markings noted.
Illustrated with three black-and-white illustrations and seven sigils by Rowan E. Cassidy.
The deluxe issue contains an additional hymn by Harper Feist not included in the standard limited edition.
A particularly attractive production and one of the most limited states of the title, with only twenty-three deluxe copies produced.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Harper Feist, author's bibliography and description of IO TYPHON
Grayle Press / Miskatonic Books, original deluxe-edition description
Shane Ryan Staley, IO Typhon book-design project, February 2024
The Hermetic Library, contemporary publication announcement, January 2024
SYNOPSIS
In IO TYPHON, Harper Feist turns to Typhon-Set, the powerful syncretic figure formed through the identification of the Greek Typhon with the Egyptian Set and encountered within the Greco-Egyptian magical tradition.
Typhon in Greek mythology is the monstrous adversary who challenges Zeus and the Olympian order; Set is the Egyptian god associated variously with desert, storm, disorder, violence and opposition. Within the syncretic magical environment of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds these figures became intertwined as Typhon-Set, a formidable supernatural power invoked within the Greek Magical Papyri.
Feist takes this inherited figure and develops a contemporary devotional and magical hymnal concerned with revolt, destruction, liberation and renewal. Its principal invocations approach Typhon-Set as a force capable of breaking restraints, scattering opposition and dismantling structures that have exhausted their usefulness.
The text incorporates references and reinterpretations drawn from sources including the Book of Job and Aleister Crowley's Liber ARARITA, bringing biblical, Thelemic, classical and late-antique material into dialogue.
The result is neither a conventional historical study nor a practical grimoire in the usual sense, but a work of ritual poetry and contemporary theurgy: sensual, adversarial and deliberately transgressive, in which destruction is presented not simply as an end in itself but as the necessary precursor to transformation.
This deluxe issue, one of only 23 copies produced, adds a further hymn by the author and presents the work in its most elaborate and collectible form.
AUTHOR BIO
Harper Feist is an American esotericist, scientist and historian whose principal interests include the magical and religious innovations of late antiquity and their application within contemporary magical practice.
She holds a PhD in physical chemistry and has been active within Ordo Templi Orientis, including serving as Past Master of Leaping Laughter Lodge in Minneapolis. She is an ordained priestess of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, a member of the A∴A∴, and has served as interviewer for the U.S. Grand Lodge podcast Thelema Now!
Feist has lectured at numerous occult and esoteric conferences and taught scrying through the Blackthorne School of esoteric studies. Her published work frequently explores the intersection of ancient religion, ceremonial magic, devotional practice and modern occultism.
ILLUSTRATOR
Rowan E. Cassidy
Rowan E. Cassidy is an Australian artist and designer whose work combines classical draughtsmanship, calligraphy and traditional fine-art practice with contemporary visual design.
His background includes studies in fine art at Australia's National Art School and Communication Design at James Cook University, together with design work for feature films and exhibitions in Australia and Indonesia. His contributions to IO TYPHON comprise three black-and-white illustrations and seven sigils, forming an integral part of the book's ritual and visual character.
2024 First Edition Deluxe Issue
IO TYPHON
By Harper Feist
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Leather, octodecimo or eighteenmo (18mo 4 × 6 1⁄2 in 102 × 165 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Grayle Press, USA, 2024
Language: English
Limited Edition: 6/23 Copies
Illustrated By: Rowan E. Cassidy
Collation: pp. 190
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002370
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
IO TYPHON
A Hymnal
One of only 23 hand-numbered deluxe copies · Full leather · Slipcased · Additional hymn exclusive to the deluxe issue
A striking deluxe issue of Harper Feist's IO TYPHON: A Hymnal, an exploration and invocation of Typhon-Set: the syncretic Greco-Egyptian figure combining the Greek Typhon with the Egyptian god Set, encountered with particular force in the magical traditions of late antiquity and the Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri.
Published by Grayle Press in a standard limited issue of 219 copies and an exceptionally small deluxe issue of only 23 hand-numbered copies, this is copy no. 6/23. The deluxe issue is substantially differentiated from the standard edition, being bound in full dark-grey leather, housed in a matching black slipcase, and incorporating an additional hymn by Harper Feist not present in the standard issue.
The physical production is particularly successful. Both binding and slipcase carry a large foil-stamped dragon device; the spine is lettered and numbered in red; the volume has striking viscera-like marbled endpapers, grey-and-red headbands and Smyth-sewn construction. Printed on heavy cream stock and illustrated by Rowan E. Cassidy with three black-and-white compositions and seven sigils, it is conceived as much as an esoteric book-object as a work of contemporary ritual literature.
The work centres upon Typhon-Set as a power of revolt, disruption, liberation and transformation. Drawing upon classical and Egyptian mythology, late-antique magical traditions and modern ceremonial magic, Feist presents a sequence of hymns and invocations in which Typhon-Set appears as the adversarial force capable of scattering enemies, breaking bonds, overturning established orders and creating the conditions from which something new may arise.
Among its literary and magical reference points are deliberate engagements with the biblical Book of Job and Aleister Crowley's Liber ARARITA. The resulting work occupies the boundary between ritual invocation, devotional poetry and contemporary theurgical writing, treating Typhon-Set not simply as a figure of destruction but as an agent of radical transformation, freedom, power and gnosis.
IO TYPHON forms the second instalment in the Grayle Press sequence following Lioness: A New Hymn to Inanna and shares its compact 3.5 × 6 inch format.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
An unread example of the exceptionally scarce deluxe issue, hand-numbered 6 of only 23 copies.
Bound in full dark-grey leather with red-stamped spine and large foil-stamped dragon device to the front board. Matching black slipcase with the same dragon device. Binding clean and unworn, with corners and spine ends sharp. Red spine stamping remains strong and clearly defined.
Striking viscera-like marbled endpapers; grey-and-red headbands; Smyth-sewn construction. Internally fresh and clean, printed on substantial 100-lb cream paper. No ownership inscriptions or other markings noted.
Illustrated with three black-and-white illustrations and seven sigils by Rowan E. Cassidy.
The deluxe issue contains an additional hymn by Harper Feist not included in the standard limited edition.
A particularly attractive production and one of the most limited states of the title, with only twenty-three deluxe copies produced.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Harper Feist, author's bibliography and description of IO TYPHON
Grayle Press / Miskatonic Books, original deluxe-edition description
Shane Ryan Staley, IO Typhon book-design project, February 2024
The Hermetic Library, contemporary publication announcement, January 2024
SYNOPSIS
In IO TYPHON, Harper Feist turns to Typhon-Set, the powerful syncretic figure formed through the identification of the Greek Typhon with the Egyptian Set and encountered within the Greco-Egyptian magical tradition.
Typhon in Greek mythology is the monstrous adversary who challenges Zeus and the Olympian order; Set is the Egyptian god associated variously with desert, storm, disorder, violence and opposition. Within the syncretic magical environment of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds these figures became intertwined as Typhon-Set, a formidable supernatural power invoked within the Greek Magical Papyri.
Feist takes this inherited figure and develops a contemporary devotional and magical hymnal concerned with revolt, destruction, liberation and renewal. Its principal invocations approach Typhon-Set as a force capable of breaking restraints, scattering opposition and dismantling structures that have exhausted their usefulness.
The text incorporates references and reinterpretations drawn from sources including the Book of Job and Aleister Crowley's Liber ARARITA, bringing biblical, Thelemic, classical and late-antique material into dialogue.
The result is neither a conventional historical study nor a practical grimoire in the usual sense, but a work of ritual poetry and contemporary theurgy: sensual, adversarial and deliberately transgressive, in which destruction is presented not simply as an end in itself but as the necessary precursor to transformation.
This deluxe issue, one of only 23 copies produced, adds a further hymn by the author and presents the work in its most elaborate and collectible form.
AUTHOR BIO
Harper Feist is an American esotericist, scientist and historian whose principal interests include the magical and religious innovations of late antiquity and their application within contemporary magical practice.
She holds a PhD in physical chemistry and has been active within Ordo Templi Orientis, including serving as Past Master of Leaping Laughter Lodge in Minneapolis. She is an ordained priestess of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, a member of the A∴A∴, and has served as interviewer for the U.S. Grand Lodge podcast Thelema Now!
Feist has lectured at numerous occult and esoteric conferences and taught scrying through the Blackthorne School of esoteric studies. Her published work frequently explores the intersection of ancient religion, ceremonial magic, devotional practice and modern occultism.
ILLUSTRATOR
Rowan E. Cassidy
Rowan E. Cassidy is an Australian artist and designer whose work combines classical draughtsmanship, calligraphy and traditional fine-art practice with contemporary visual design.
His background includes studies in fine art at Australia's National Art School and Communication Design at James Cook University, together with design work for feature films and exhibitions in Australia and Indonesia. His contributions to IO TYPHON comprise three black-and-white illustrations and seven sigils, forming an integral part of the book's ritual and visual character.
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