Bessie Leo and others – The Life and Work of Alan Leo 1919
£75.00
1 in stock
Description
hb | Leo, Bessie and others | The Life and Work of Alan Leo | 1st | “Modern Astrology” Office, 40, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, E.C. 4, London | 1919 | £75 | The true first edition | Original cloth in vgc+ condition for age, with light rubbing to extremities of spine and some outer corners of boards; cloth worn from tip of lower outer corner of front board. Cloth to spine and some peripheral parts of boards sun-faded, but gilt titling to both front board and spine remains strong and bright. Ffep with plain-pencilled bookseller notes. Photographic frontispiece of Alan Leo and separate photographic portrait of him after p. 90 both in excellent condition. Title page with early owner’s black-inked signature scrolled over the top of some credits at an angle, without detriment to their clarity of reading. Corrected dog-ear to upper outer corner of leaf comprising pp. 91-2, but no internal markings beyond title page, or other faults, found. For its age, a near-excellent copy of the sought-after first edition |
Additional information
Weight | 0.305 kg |
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