Early years The original Samuel Weiser Bookstore was started in New York City's famous "Book Row" area by Samuel Weiser in 1926. It moved several times within the "Book Row" before relocating to 117 4th Avenue, where it remained for a number of decades.(Anon) International Directory For Antiquarian Booksellers 1958, Zurich: ILAB, 1958. To start with  Samuel Weiser Books sold general used books , but with an emphasis on the occult and comparative religion. In 1949  Samuel Weiser was joined by his brother Ben who had worked with him for a few years in the 1930s. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s  they increased Weiser Books' specialist focus on the occult at a time when many bookstores refused to handle such subjects. One of the customers of the shop was Karl Germer, successor to Aleister Crowley as head of the Ordo Templi Orientis. After Crowley's death, most of his papers and other possessions were shipped to Germer  including the unbound sheets of the 1937 edition of his book The Equinox of the Gods. In 1955  Germer sold the sheets to Samuel Weiser  who had them bound up in maroon cloth and sold through the shop. This was probably one of the first books to be published by Samuel Weiser – although it retained the original O.T.O. title page and imprint.Details of the printing history of the Germer / Weiser issue of The Equinox of the Gods are given in Germer also sold Weiser a collection of the First Edition of Crowley's masterwork on the tarot, The Book of Thoth. Despite being leather bound, printed on handmade paper, and in an edition of only 200 copies signed by Crowley himself, interest in "the Beast" was low at the time and  for nearly two decades  copies could be purchased from the shop for $50 or less (as of 2009, they command thousands of dollars ).
Early years The original Samuel Weiser Bookstore was started in New York City's famous "Book Row" area by Samuel Weiser in 1926. It moved several times within the "Book Row" before relocating to 117 4th Avenue, where it remained for a number of decades.(Anon) International Directory For Antiquarian Booksellers 1958, Zurich: ILAB, 1958. To start with , Samuel Weiser Books sold general used books but placed special emphasis on the occult and comparative religion. In 1949 , Samuel Weiser was joined by his brother Ben who had worked with him for a few years in the 1930s. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s , they increased Weiser Books' specialist focus on the occult at a time when many bookstores refused to handle such subjects. One of the customers of the shop was Karl Germer, successor to Aleister Crowley as head of the Ordo Templi Orientis. After Crowley's death, most of his papers and other possessions were shipped to Germer , including the unbound sheets of the 1937 edition of his book The Equinox of the Gods. In 1955 , Germer sold the sheets to Samuel Weiser , who had them bound up in maroon cloth and sold through the shop. This was probably one of the first books to be published by Samuel Weiser – although it retained the original O.T.O. title page and imprint.Details of the printing history of the Germer / Weiser issue of The Equinox of the Gods are given in Germer also sold Weiser a collection of the First Edition of Crowley's masterwork on the tarot, The Book of Thoth. Despite being leather bound, printed on handmade paper, and in an edition of only 200 copies signed by Crowley himself, interest in "the Beast" was low at the time and – for nearly two decades – copies could be purchased from the shop for $50 or less . (As of 2009, they command thousands of dollars .)
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