Evangeline Adams – Astrology: Your Place in the Sun 1928, Copy 3

£115.00

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hb Adams, Evangeline Astrology: Your Place in the Sun 1st UK George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1928 £115 Published simultaneously with the first US edition, which was published by Dodd Mead. The Harrap edition has an attractive front board design with gilt Sun Original full maroon cloth in vgc+ antiquarian condition, with moderate rubbing to extremities of spine hinges and outer corners of boards, and a minor race of same to outer edge of front board. Boards slightly bowed. The gilt titling and Sun to the front board remain fairly bright and strong; to the spine, they are excellent, making this an unusually attractive copy to have on a bookshelf. Light browning to acidic endpapers, as usual. Internally, there are traces of pale blue-inked underlining and / or marginal brackets to pp. 6-11, 13, 39-41, 46-8, 50, 53, 128, 179, 181 and 187. Some plain-pencilled marginal notes and underlinings to a few other pages. Corrected dog-ears to upper outer corner of leaves comprising pp. 35-6, 39-42, 129-130, 221-2. Tiny 3mm chip lost from bottom edge of blank lower margin of leaf comprising pp. 133-4. Externally very good+; internally good+. Overall, a near-vgc antiquarian original of the sought-after UK true first edition.

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Weight 0.515 kg