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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Extremely Rare Vintage Copy of a scarce occult title. 1897 first edition, not a reprint, of cartomancy using a regular deck of playing cards. Editor was a co-founder of The Church of Satan. Handbook sized, 7.75x5.25 inches; Editor presents this book as the "literary resurrection" of a 1735 work by Robert Antrobus titled, "The Square of Sevens and the Parallelogram," in the long, wry, and witty introduction; Original black cloth-covered boards and gilded lettering on spine; Front cover features a large, striking image of a hooded person next to a black cat as they both consider cards laid out on a table; Covers are protected with a clear plastic dust jacket; Thick, heavy, cardstock pages w/deckled edges; Back hinge cracked, but holding firm; Binding in-tact and holding up well for its age; Text is unique, nestled on each page, inside a red ink rectangle, clean, slightly age-toned, but still bright; Name and date in ink on frontise page, done with an ink quill from an ink bottle with beautiful penmanship (May 21, 1933, New York City); Residue from a bookstore sticker inside front cover. Professional book seller with storefront since 1975. All orders carefully packaged and promptly shipped.…