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C. C. Zain – Doctrine of Divination 1940 DORIS CHASE DOANE’S COPY

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hb Zain, C. C. [XI:] Divination [1st] The Church of Light, Los Angeles, California 1940 £195 A compendium of Church of Light lessons 118-124, retaining their original publication year of 1940, thus predating the reprint of 1969. The rounded corners and textured cloth on the binding of this edition also show it to be very early and probably the original hardback edition ASSOCIATION COPY. Original full black textured cloth in vgc, with moderate rubbing to extremities of spine and light edge-wear to parts of boards; stamped gilt titling and emblem to front board still strong and bright, though gilt titling to spine partly faded. This copy formerly in the possession of notable American astrologer Doris Chase Doane, with her green-inked signature to the ffep, beneath which are various keywords under the headings ‘Astral’ and ‘Physical’ in plain pencil, possibly also in her hand. Plain-pencilled bookseller note to upper outer margin of ffep. Further plain-pencilled notes, also likely to be in Doane’s hand, to upper margin of title page. Occasional plain-pencilled marginal marks to main text pages, mostly short marginal brackets accompanied by reference numbers, but some free text, which also looks as if it is probably in Doane’s hand. Internal tears to part of upper margin of leaf comprising pp. 19-20, not affecting text. On p. 25, ‘lessons’ has been corrected in plain pencil to ‘MSS’ twice. Dark-inked correction to one word to p. 46, implying the need to add an ‘s’ to the word ‘intelligence’; another correcting ‘if’ to ‘is’ on p. 51 (this is clearly justified). Small, faint red-pencilled planetary glyphs added to illustrations on pp. [98-100], as though to suggest they are the planetary signatures of the illustrated physical types. Another minor dark-inked correction suggested to word ‘light-rays’ on p. 111. Plain-pencilled planetary glyphs added to sketches on pp. 130-132, with presumed similar reasoning to those mentioned earlier. Ruled blue-inked marginal bracket to p. 135. Correction of word ‘people’ from the printed ‘prople’ to p. 147. Possibly blue-inked ruled marginal bracket to p. 168. Correction of word ‘Curly’ from misprinted ‘Curley’ to p. 186. Suggested correction to word ‘character-reading’ to pp. 205 and 207. No other permanent markings or faults found. Altogether, a fascinating insight into Doris Chase Doane’s personal reaction and editorial responses to this early edition of a C. C. Zain volume. A unique association copy of a text that is already rare in all editions before the 1960s

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Weight 0.240 kg

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