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Evangeline Adams – Astrology: Your Place in the Sun 1929

£95.00

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hb Adams, Evangeline Astrology: Your Place in the Sun 6th US printing Dodd Mead & Company, New York 1929 £95 Sixth U.S. printing of July 1929, after the first four of January and February 1928, and the fifth of July 1928. Retains the original attractive cover design with gilt sun and titling on the front board, which was lost from later impressions Original full blue cloth in very good antiquarian condition, with mostly light-to-moderate rubbing to extremities of spine and outer corners of boards; cloth more heavily worn from lower outer corner of front board. Gilt to front board mostly remains strong and bright, with some fading to sun; gilt to spine is still clear although some characters are partly faded. Spine cloth slightly colour-faded. Outer edge of page block rough-cut, as issued. Top edge smooth and appears to have been dyed a reddish stain originally; there is a small blue-ink stain to part of the top edge only. Early owner’s finely hand-inked ownership inscription to ffep alongside faint plain-pencilled price. (Early owner’s finely handwritten inscription to ffep. Occasional short tears to carelessly-opened page-edges; two-inch tear to outer edge of mostly blank leaf comprising pp. 333-[4], not affecting text. No internal markings to printed pages or other faults found. A very good antiquarian copy despite the short tear towards the end.

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Weight 0.600 kg

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