The Ninth Arch - delivered from the printers

[Michael Staley]

I'm delighted to say that finallly. after a period of preparation extending for much of last year, and a longer-than-usual time at the printers due to the Christmas / New Year break, four massive pallets of the book were delivered to Starfire Towers this morning.

The book has been very well produced by the printers. I'm particularly pleased with the reproduction of the six plates taken from an illumunated manuscript of The Book of the Law created by Steffi Grant in 1944. But all plates have turned out well.

Whilst I've thoroughly enjoyed working on the republications of the trilogies, I'm glad to have reached the last volume. Whilst the republishing was under way I felt compelled once a volume was published to move straight on to the next. Though this had to be done, I have in the process neglected much other work, and once the initial distribution of The Ninth Arch has been attended to - not only the packaging and despatch of pre-publication orders, but also preparing a large consignment of the book for shipping to our distributors in the USA - I'll be turning my attention to these other things.

But in the meantime, let's celebrate the republication of The Ninth Arch, and with it the completion of the republication of the Typhonian Trilogies.

[stephen]

Well, this is excellent news all round, Michael.  Certainly looking forward to seeing the finished product in due course.  I just hope that the floorboards at Starfire Towers are in fine fettle to cope with this largest of Typhonian Tomes !

[Gregory Peters]

Feb 7, 2017 15:52:17 GMT stephen said:

Well, this is excellent news all round, Michael.  Certainly looking forward to seeing the finished product in due course.  I just hope that the floorboards at Starfire Towers are in fine fettle to cope with this largest of Typhonian Tomes !

Indeed, I suspect they will need to incorporate some trans-dimensional shifting in order to hold up such stellar "loads" !

[Ad Finem]

Glad to hear this great news Michael and congratuatlions on the completion of what is a pilgrimage in publishing. I feel certain that this will open many doors for all.

GeoRGe

[stephen]

Received my copy last week and as Michael says, all of the plates "have turned out well".  All of those now reproduced in colour have greatly benefited by it, particularly plate 28: Steffi Grant's "Impressions of the Sabbath".

The plates featuring six pages from Steffi's illuminated manuscript of Liber AL are fascinating. If these date from 1944, that is presumably when Kenneth introduced her to The Book of the Law and this was the remarkable result.

[Gregory Peters]

Eagerly awaiting mine in the states from Holmes publishing group. I should have flown to London and politely requested a Staley signed edition

[Michael Staley]

Well you still could, Gregory! The shipment arrived in New York dock recently, so you won't have much longer to wait.

[Sutekh]

Any news on the arrival of the deluxe editions yet Michael?

[Michael Staley]

Nothing definite. A couple of weeks ago I was given the end of March as a target date for delivery. I'll speak to the binders tomorrow and find out how the land lies now, though I suspect that we are looking at the first half of April.