Astrology Your Place Among the Stars. With One Hundred Horoscopes of Famous People.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1930. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xiv + 528 pp. Original bright blue cloth with gilt title and author to spine and front cover, gilt titling and stars on spine, b&w illustrations and charts. Evangeline Adams (1868-1932) was America's best known astrologer, although thanks to the researches of Hymenaeus Beta it has now been conclusively established that this, and her book 'Astrology, Your Place in the Sun,' were for the most part ghost-written by Aleister Crowley. A contemporary (1930) newsclipping on astrology loosely inserted at the rear. From the collection of Clive Harper with his discreet book-label neatly tipped in at the rear. Harper is well-known as the bibliographer of Austin Osman Spare, for updating the Aleister Crowley bibliography in the 2011 Teitan Press collection of Gerald Yorke's writings, and as someone who has lent his expertise to numerous other publications. Light rubbing and a few very faint marks to cloth, corners and spine ends very lightly bumped and chafed, page edges and endpapers very lightly browned. There is uneven browning/discoloration to pages 310 and 311, most likely someone once "pressed" a leaf between the those pages causing the browning (a not uncommon practice many years ago). Also, there is a cigarette-end sized brown ink-stain on p. 311 bleeding through the next few pages until it ends as an almost invisible spot on p. 317. Overall a nice, solid VG or better copy in near VG dust jacket (the dust jacket quite chipped at top edge and bottom of the spine, folds heavily rubbed, overall quite darkened. Price-clipped, now protected by removable mylar sleeve). Item #71027
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