Fortune-Telling By Cards

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 century of ours." ---- from the Introduction. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…