1987 US Games AG Muller Thoth
Well I found the box that formerly housed my long lost beloved dark/saturated Thoth that I'd mentioned earlier. The best printing of the Thoth I've ever seen.
Date of deck: Cards--1986, LWB--1987
Publisher US Games and AG Muller
Box design:
It is a White box with XXI The Universe (in color with the newer borders) on the back.
The top of the box says, in sans serif font (dashes added for spacing):
"ALEISTER CROWLEY THOTH TAROT
----Deck Printed in Switzerland
---U.S. GAMES SYSTEMS, INC.
-----Stamford, CT 06902 USA
and AGMULLER & CIE, Switzerland
CR80-----------ISBN 0-88079-308-2"
On the Front, it has in red calligaphic lettering (dashes added for spacing):
"ALEISTER CROWLEY
------THOTH
----TAROT DECK"
Then in black, curved in an arc, in a fancy old english style font:
"Ordo Templi Orientis"
over a red OTO lamen.
then, in black sans-serif (all centered):
"IN SMALL CARD SIZE
BOOKLET OF INSTRUCTIONS
Includes essay by Lady Frieda Harris
and foreward by Stuart Kaplan
COMPLETE 80-CARD CROWLEY TAROT DECK
Includes Three Renditions of
The Magus/Magician Cards"
The sides each say seven lines worth about Crowley and Harris and the extra cards.
The bottom has the ISBN #, two barcodes: "9 780880 793087" and "90000>" , and the letters "EAN"
Card Size: Small (exactly the same as the 1996 US Games small version)
Cards are excepionally dark/rich/saturated. Cardstock is a little heavier than the 1996 version. Backs have Rosy Cross with thin white border and say "(c)1986 AGMuller" Fronts have white & grey border, with astrological signs and hebrew letters. Suit printed in grey beneath title.
Extra cards: Magician and Magus.
LWB copyright 1978, 1983, and 1987, by Stuart R. Kaplan and Donald Weiser.
Written by James Wasserman, plus essay by Lady Freida Harris, with commentary and footnotes by Stuart R. Kaplan. Lists Hymenaeus Alpha as OTO Caliph. Sans Serif font. Content appears the same as 1996 US Games.
"Popular Tarot Decks" listed on back of LWB: Angel, Aquarian, Cogliostro, Cat People, Classic, Crowley's THoth, Dali's Universal, Egipcios Kier, Etteilla Egyptian, Gareth Knight, Hanson-Roberts, Hermetic, Karma, Marseilles, Medieval Scapini, Morgan-Greer, Motherpiece Round, Native American, Oswald Wirth, Renaissance, Rider-Waite, Swiss 1JJ, Tavaglione, Transition, Ukiyoe, Witches, Zolar's Astrological.
ISBN: 0-88079-308-2
If anybody has this exact deck, or knows where to get it, I'd love to hear from you.