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Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot (Pocket Edition)
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4 new or used available from $70.00
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #883381 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Cards
Customer Reviews
A Better Size
I got into Tarot in about 10th grade in high school almost a full decade ago. I got my first Crowley deck, the large version, as a freshman in college. As a junior in coollege I got the small version of the Thoth deck, and I liked it a lot better. With the large cards you need the size of a dinner table to lay out the cards for readings. Then I was looking for the Rider Waite tarot deck because it was the first modern deck and the standard all other decks are judged by. It was the miniature version I got because I liked it better for the small size you could do readings anywhere and it could fit in your pocket. I had heard of this pocket Swiss version of the Thoth deck, and I got yesterday; I ordered it from a local bookstore. The thing I like about this is you get the beautiful artwork and everything else about the popular and highly rated Thoth deck, and the size allows the images of the amazing artwork to show up on the cards even better. In particular, I thought the face on the Magus card looked bad after some use as I began noticing flaws in it. In this version the Magus card doesn't have a bad face on it, it seems to be corrected with the smaller size. Unless you want to do all your readings on a dinner table or living room floor I would stick with the smaller sized decks rather than the large ones.
Printed in Belgium, not Switzerland!!!
The box cover picture shown above is misleading, if not deceptive. I bought this deck from a Marketplace seller because I thought it is the one printed in Switzerland (which has the above box cover) with the much higher quality pictures. But instead, I received the cheap version of this tarot deck printed in Belgium, which has a completely different box cover picture. I wish these sellers were more honest and straight forward about the products they are selling.
Buyer Beware
The deck pictured above may not be the one you receive. US Games Inc is resorting to having their Pocket Thoths printed in China instead of Switzerland. The result? The deck looks like a distored bootleg photocopy of the original version: the cards have a yellowish tinge, and are printed on inferior cardstock. The box looks like a small dark blue version of the US Games box for the standard and large size Thoth decks. (with the 2 of disks in the front)
