Mystic Fortune Teller by Foli, P. R. S - 1910

Ottenheimer, 1964. Book. Good. Paperback. Very good condition with page tanning, vintage looking published in 1964 ...thanks!.

Baltimore, Maryland: I & M Ottenheimer Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; no dj; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used first Ottenheimer hardcover edition! Gray cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. 121 very clean unmarked and uncreased thought-provoking and historical pages! No publishing date. "'This goddess Fortune frustrates, single-handed, the plans of a hundred learned men.' In this saying the Latin author has given us the key to all the restless striving to search out the Unknown and the Unknowable which marks our own age, just as it has marked previous periods in history which we are apt to look back upon as being but little removed from the dark ages. Of all the methods by which men and women seek to penetrate into the mysteries of Fate and Futurity, Cartomancy is one that can claim the distinction of having swayed the human mind from prehistoric times right down to this twentieth… Read More

Chicago: Max Stein Pub. Book. Very Good. Softcover. Age yellowing to pages, o/w VG. Methods of divination with playing cards..

C. Arthur Pearson, 1933. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1933. 121 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over blue pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Chicago:: Max Stein Publishing House,, n.d. (ca. 1935.. original wrappers printed in red and blue.. Fine.. 12mo,.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Good.

London: Arco. 121pp hardback, cream boards black-lettered in wrapper, wrapper with tear and loss to bottom edge over front board with corresponding sunning to board . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1957.

Paperback / softback. New.

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

Nice tight copy; small bump to reverse. Old tape "ghost" to flyleaf, else internals clean. Terrific cover art; more campy than lurid, still the essentials remain.
Inv. # 63812 SD* bds 11/2023

book is bumped on upper board by spine, else "Fine." Unclipped* wrapper has two short closed tears, gently faded spine and just a bit of wear at spine head. *a Nash inventory re-order form is still attached to rear jacket flap-something which is clearly unintended for the purchaser. So, this copy is unclipped x two!! An extremely fresh, attractive book and what great campy art on the wrapper!
Inv. # 63762 GGW* bds 10/2023

Aquarian Press, 1970, in soft wraps. Terrific lurid. A veritable time capsule which can serve as a bona fide research tool for those with an interest of the heady days of late 1960s London. No website to hide behind; here were REAL names of both adepts & quacks and where to find them! An interesting artifact- though don't expect to trace many of these street addresses now. Uncommon vintage paperback. Exceptional condition save for spotting on all edges. Very tight binding, extremely clean. Almost "As New". Inv. # 62542 bds 2023

book is "Fine." red top stain. (just a hint of foxing to fore edge but not enough to knock it down to Near Fine.) Unclipped wrapper has moderate soiling to front and heavier darkening to spine. one miniscule tear to the upper edge of the face; there are no other tears, chips or creases. Several b/w plates interspersed throughout(eight pages of prints).
Inv. # 63758 HOW* bds 10/2023

8.25 x 11.25 (Oversize format) Fine/Fine; book is fresh and the pages are white, white! Straight, tight, square- not a hint of foxing, not even on the top edge. Binding is beautiful. Clipped(err..!) still glossy wrapper is the same- perhaps just a hint of rubbing/dust-dulling but so minor- hey, let's not ruin the fun, eh? This is The One.
Inv. # 63773 MS* bds 10/2023

Very lightly edgeworn; else "Fine". Internals very clean. Unclipped wrapper has minor wear at spine caps. Rubbing to reverse; to a lesser degree on the front. No tears, chips or creases; nice jacket! Uncommon in hardcover
11/2023

First Edition Thus; this volume re-issues two of Steiner's works: The Way of Initiation and Initiation and Its Results. Some shelfwear and soiling to edges, but the binding is generally clean & straight; internals are also in good order.
Inv. # 63648 TWOIAIR* bds 9/2023

Hulme, Keri: The Bone People. Louisiana State University Press, A tale of New Zealand. Stated United States First Edition, 1985. 450 pages, indexed. WINNER OF THE PEGASUS PRIZE FOR LITERATURE AND THE BOOKER PRIZE. Used. Very Good/Very Good unclipped original $17.95 dust jacket. Summary: "The Bone People, first published in 1984 by Spiral, New Zealand. About this book: The Bone People is an unusual story of love. It is unusual in the telling, the subject matter, and the form of love that the story depicts. This is in no way a romance; it is filled with violence, fear, and twisted emotions. At the story's core, however, are three people who struggle very hard to figure out what love is and how to find it. Hulme won New Zealand's Pegasus Prize for Literature (1984) for The Bone People. Then the book went on to win the prestigious Booker Prize (1985).

Binding is square, tight and clean save for a stray mark on reverse. Red top stain. Internals clean except for faint marginal spotting/staining on pp.136-37. Old Weiser booklabel on front pastedown. Unclipped wrapper has minor wrinkling/ small creases (it is a very thin gold foil paper jacket) plus some edgewear; else Fine. Fifty-seven illustrations on b/w plates interspersed throughout text; again, as mentioned elsewhere on this space; images perhaps those not commonly seen re-printed ad nauseum.
Inv. # TMA* bds 9/2023

Short tear to front cover; minor crease at the lower edge. Wear and loss at hinges. PO name stamped to flyleaf and to fore edge. Internals clean. Uncommon.
Inv. # 63810 DWB* bds 11/2023