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What Does Your Cup Reveal
by Smith, Kizzie Everhart
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Alfred, Maine, United States
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About This Item
[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc, 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline to top and bottom edges. Red wrappers, illustrated in blue and white; wear at spine and some splitting to bottom two inches. With the bookseller ticket of the Corner Bookshop to the front, inner wrapper panel. [OCLC locates three copies; William G. Lockwood Collection of Romani and Gypsy Stereotypes].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7462
- Title
- What Does Your Cup Reveal
- Author
- Smith, Kizzie Everhart
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- [San Pedro, California
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- tea, fortune telling romani, gypsy, rarebooksLA20, CALIFORNIA-VBF, california24
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About the Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Biblio member since 2006
Alfred, Maine
About Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, drink, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare books, alongside prints, photographs and ephemera, all concerned with the pleasures of the senses.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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