Almanach de Maurice Privat

Almanach de Maurice Privat

Editor: Privat, Maurice (all issues)

Publication credits:

• Éditions Médicis, 3, Rue de Bellefond, Paris (IX^e) (1937 issue)
• Éditions Médicis, 28 bis, Rue Louis Le Grand, Paris (II^e) (1938 issue)
• Éditions Médicis, 7, Rue Alphonse Penaud, Paris (XX^e) (1939-1940 issues)
• Éditions Fournier-Valdès, 5 Boulevard Poissonière, Paris (1948 issue)

Holdings, with full titles^[1] and binding format and presentation notes:

• 1937: Prédictions sensationnelles par l’astrologie scientifique^[2]. (Edgewear and some surface scuffing to front cover; tiny chip lost from foot of front cover; short tear to outer edge of rear cover.) [3] + [1 leaf] + [pp. 7-9] + [pp. 11-37] + [pp. 39-77] + [pp. 79-182] + [3 single-sided leaves of advertisements] + [2 pages of advertisements] + [Imprimatur] + [rear cover featuring 1 page of advertisements]
• 1938: Année d’Échéances^[3]. (Slight tearing to foot of front cover.) (Last two leaves of advertisements still joined at outer edges: need separating.) [5] + [2] + [pp. xi-xvi] + 15 + [pp. 17-35] + [pp. 37-53] + [pp. 55-93] + [pp. 95-145] + [14 pages of advertisements]
• 1939^[4]: Année de Reprise. (Slight wear to foot of spine.) (Leaves comprising pp. 75-8 still joined at top edges; need separating.) [Front cover backed with advertisements] + [6] + [pp. vi-ix] + [pp. xi-xvi] + [p. 2 (1)] + [pp. 2 (2) – 11] + [pp. 13-21] + [pp. 23-63] + [pp. 65-109] + [pp. 111-115] + [pp. 117-122] + [13 pages of advertisements] + [Imprimatur] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advertisements]
• 1940:^[5] Année de Grandeur Française. (Light wear to extremities of spine.) [Front cover backed with 1 page of advertisements] + [4] + [pp. 7-29] + [pp. 31-45] + [pp. 47-77] + [pp. 79-101] + [pp. 103-5] + [pp. 107-201] + [p. 203-213] + [1 leaf of advertisements] + [12 pages of advertisements] + [Imprimatur] + [rear cover featuring 2 pages of advetisements]
• 1948: Année de Grands Changements. (Light separation at inner paper hinges between pp. 16 and [17]; between pp. 32-3; and between pp. 64-5. Leaf starting with imprimatur still joined to rear free endpaper at top edges; needs separating.) [3 leaves] + [pp. 9-173] + [pp. 175-6] + [4 pages of advertisements] + [Imprimatur]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• All issues held as original separate issues. Paperbacks. 1937 and 1940 with paper covers; 1938, 1939 and 1948 with card covers.

 

[1] These changed every year so it seemed more appropriate to integrate them into the listings for the specific years than to represent the full titles under a separate heading.

[2] Front cover title is extended to ‘1937 année de relèvemen[:] Prédictions sensationnelles par l’astrologie scientifique: les menaces de guerre[;] la pacification des esprits[;] la reprise des affaires – les évènements dans le monde’

[3] Front cover title is instead ‘1938: Toutes les Dates Importantes Déterminées par les Dernières Méthodes Astrologiques et interprétées par Maurice Privat’

[4] Title to front cover is extended to ‘1939 année de reprise Prédictions de Maurice Privat…. Plus de 1.000 Dates Importantes Pour la France et le Monde’

[5] Title to front cover is extended to ‘1940 Prédictions Mondiales: Année de Grandeur Française’, at variance with inner title