Branded "the most terrible man in England" in the 1920s, Aleister Crowley enjoyed a measure of notoriety in his lifetime that few would be able to match. White Stains, a collection of Crowley's poetry praised by W.B. Yeats, published in paperback for the first time, has been called 'the filthiest book of verse ever written' and of the first edition of 100 numbered copies, 83 were pulped and burned by Her Majesty's Customs in 1924.