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Your Past, Your Present, and Your Future Through the Art of Hand Analysis
by Mir Bashir
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385026323
- ISBN 13
- 9780385026321
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company , 1974 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1974. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Gutter Code P36. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for overstock speckle spray on textblock bottom edge. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($8.95); light soiling to front and rear panels. Misty yellow and green paper over boards with green buckram overlay on the spine; bright yellow lettering on the spine. 270 pp 8vo. The author presents a detailed guide to teh art and science of palm reading. Not only the major lines and mounts, but every mark and undulation are given their delicate interpretation by this world-renowned chirologist, who relates even the shape and texture of the hand to the process of divination. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016141
- Title
- Your Past, Your Present, and Your Future Through the Art of Hand Analysis
- Author
- Mir Bashir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385026323
- ISBN 13
- 9780385026321
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- palm reading, hand reading, chirologist, Mir Bashir, handprints, hand lines, hand mounts, hand analysis,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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