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Post by Michael Staley on Aug 25, 2022 23:00:08 GMT
Before the end of this year, The Ninth Arch will be reprinted, and thus all volumes of the Trilogies will be back in print. Hurrah!
Some of you may have wondered what on earth we at Starfire Publishing are going to do with ourselves from 2023. Well, there are non-Trilogies books that have gone out of print. One of these, At the Feet of the Guru, is scheduled for a reprint in the first half of 2023, and will be available in hardback and paperback.
One project which was announced several years ago was Kenneth Grant: The Selected Letters. Much of the work for the first colume has been done, but there remains much work still to be done in terms of editing and annotation. I have recently recommenced work on this project, and hope that the first volume can appear at the end of 2023.
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Post by IMIL ˙.˙ on Aug 26, 2022 17:50:57 GMT
Congratulations on this massive accomplishment, Michael!
Very excited for what comes next for Starfire!
You mentioned publishing the New-Isis Lodge rituals in a recent podcast, would those be coming in the near future?
Or is that a little further out would you say?
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Post by inara on Sept 5, 2022 17:36:53 GMT
Congratulations and many thanks to you and Starfire, Mr. Staley.
A couple of years ago, I saw mention that Steffi Grant's illuminated edition of The Book of the Law might get published at some point. Is this still a possibility?
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Post by Michael Staley on Sept 13, 2022 13:20:06 GMT
Yes, it is. I had originally intended to publish it before now. Once The Ninth Arch is reissued (by the end of this year) it will one of several publishing projects for next year.
A few years ago I discussed with Steffi the possible publication of the illuminated manuscript. Although she wanted me to give priority to restoring Kenneth Grant's work to print, she was rightly proud of the manuscript, which had been kept in pristine condition since its creation in the mid 1940s, and I had it professionally photographed to a high resolution, as can be seen from the pages from it published in The Ninth Arch and Servants of the Star & the Snake.
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Post by inara on Sept 13, 2022 15:09:08 GMT
Yes, it is. I had originally intended to publish it before now. Once The Ninth Arch is reissued (by the end of this year) it will one of several publishing projects for next year. A few years ago I discussed with Steffi the possible publication of the illuminated manuscript. Although she wanted me to give priority to restoring Kenneth Grant's work to print, she was rightly proud of the manuscript, which had been kept in pristine condition since its creation in the mid 1940s, and I had it professionally photographed to a high resolution, as can be seen from the pages from it published in The Ninth Arch and Servants of the Star & the Snake. That is wonderful news! Thank you. I'll look forward to this. As an aside about the Trilogies, I was fortunate enough to have finished acquiring a full collection of the Starfire editions just around the time of that awful fire. I'm adding the paperbacks as they are reissued now, to go along with my hardcovers. I'm so thankful for these! |
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Post by chapter53 on Sept 14, 2022 12:31:40 GMT
One of these, At the Feet of the Guru, is scheduled for a reprint in the first half of 2023, and will be available in hardback and paperback. At the Feet of the Guru is my favorite Grant book, and it's the book that made magick and mysticism really click for me. I'm glad to hear that it's going back into print so that more people can explore its wonderful ideas. |
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Post by x51 on Sept 14, 2022 12:39:19 GMT
Before the end of this year, The Ninth Arch will be reprinted, and thus all volumes of the Trilogies will be back in print. Hurrah! Is this to say that Outer Gateways will not be reprinted with the current lot since some of the previous edition are still in print? |
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Post by Michael Staley on Sept 15, 2022 12:56:38 GMT
Before the end of this year, The Ninth Arch will be reprinted, and thus all volumes of the Trilogies will be back in print. Hurrah! Is this to say that Outer Gateways will not be reprinted with the current lot since some of the previous edition are still in print? Yes, that is the case. The current stock of Outer Gateways is likely to run out sometime in 2023. It's not economic to print just paperbacks in the meantime. The reason why Outer Gateways is the last of the trilogies volumes to sell out is that, at the time of the storage warehouse fire in October 2017 that destroyed most of Starfire's stock, no boxes of Outer Gateways had been moved into the storahe warehouse, and hence none were lost. It is a fact, though, that Outer Gateways sells more slowly that the other volumes of the trilogies. This surprises me, since I regard it as one of the best volumes, with some wonderful chapters – not least the 'Wisdom of S'lba' and the succeeding chapters of analysis. I remember reading the book before publication – Kenneth asked me to write the Index, and arranged for Skoob to give me a final proof – and thought it one of the most enthralling and profound books I had come across. |
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Post by inara on Oct 17, 2022 4:00:21 GMT
Is this to say that Outer Gateways will not be reprinted with the current lot since some of the previous edition are still in print? Yes, that is the case. The current stock of Outer Gateways is likely to run out sometime in 2023. It's not economic to print just paperbacks in the meantime. The reason why Outer Gateways is the last of the trilogies volumes to sell out is that, at the time of the storage warehouse fire in October 2017 that destroyed most of Starfire's stock, no boxes of Outer Gateways had been moved into the storahe warehouse, and hence none were lost. It is a fact, though, that Outer Gateways sells more slowly that the other volumes of the trilogies. This surprises me, since I regard it as one of the best volumes, with some wonderful chapters – not least the 'Wisdom of S'lba' and the succeeding chapters of analysis. I remember reading the book before publication – Kenneth asked me to write the Index, and arranged for Skoob to give me a final proof – and thought it one of the most enthralling and profound books I had come across. When Outer Gateways does run out and needs reprinting, will a paperback version be included at that time? |
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Post by Michael Staley on Oct 17, 2022 9:57:19 GMT
Yes, it will be.
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Post by inara on Oct 17, 2022 21:27:11 GMT
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Post by x51 on Nov 16, 2022 13:52:28 GMT
Looks like The Ninth Arch has been pushed back to early 2023, correct?
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Post by Michael Staley on Dec 23, 2022 22:57:23 GMT
Looks like The Ninth Arch has been pushed back to early 2023, correct? Yes, it's correct. Perhaps February, perhaps March. The previous Trilogies reprints have been at a fast pace, and there has been a cumulative effect in demand whereby I have progressively less time for preparing new work for publication, for Order matters, and for writing. The book will go to the printers in early January, and will thereafter be open for ordering ahead of publication. |
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Post by x51 on Dec 28, 2022 15:44:59 GMT
Good to know. Your hard work definitely hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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Post by The Double-wanded One on Feb 25, 2023 3:43:59 GMT
One project which was announced several years ago was Kenneth Grant: The Selected Letters. Much of the work for the first colume has been done, but there remains much work still to be done in terms of editing and annotation. I have recently recommenced work on this project, and hope that the first volume can appear at the end of 2023. This is one I continue to be anticipating a lot |
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Post by x51 on Feb 27, 2023 20:21:31 GMT
One project which was announced several years ago was Kenneth Grant: The Selected Letters. Much of the work for the first colume has been done, but there remains much work still to be done in terms of editing and annotation. I have recently recommenced work on this project, and hope that the first volume can appear at the end of 2023. This is one I continue to be anticipating a lot Agreed. Some of the best insights comes from collections like those. |
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