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Evangeline Adams – Astrology for Everyone 1931, Copy 2

£65.00

Description

hb/dj Adams, Evangeline Astrology for Everyone 1st Dodd, Mead and Company, New York 1931 £65   Original full orange-yellow cloth in vgc+ condition, with slight splitting to cloth over lower outer corner of rear board, else only minor rubbing to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards, and a trace of soiling to top of rear spine hinge. Black titling to front board and spine still bright and strong. Ffep with early owner’s black-inked signature and a few plain-pencilled bookseller notes. Frontispiece photographic plate of author in fine condition. Binding remains strong. No internal markings to any printed page, or other faults, found. This copy in rare original dj, which is in good+ condition, with moderate chipping to tops of spine hinges, a 4 cm tear and two separate 1 cm tears to top edge of rear panel, a chip lost from lower outer corner of rear panel, light chipping top tops of flap-folds, and 8mm separation to foot of rear spine hinge; evidence of past liquid staining to inside of top of dj spine, extending to part of inside of top of dj front panel, which shows through only slightly on outside of dj. The dj on this first edition rarely survives at all.

Additional information

Weight 0.555 kg