Palmistry for Pleasure.
New York: George Sully and Company, 1926. Black-and-white frontispiece with eleven illustrated line drawings. First edition, first printing. Publisher's full red cloth, ruled and title stamped in black. 201, [1] pp. 7.5" x 5.25" Lightly sunned spine, touch of wear to corners, browning from bookplate glue front pastedown, owner inscription ffep, near fine. Item #244000
A BEGINNER'S PALMISTRY
Published in New York by George Sully & Company in 1926, Dean Bryden’s Palmistry for Pleasure offers a charming introduction to the art of reading character and fortune in the human hand. Bryden would continue exploring popular systems of character reading in Your Face Is Your Fortune (1928), a physiognomic companion of sorts to this earlier work. An appealing artifact of the 1920s vogue for accessible occult and divinatory practices, Palmistry for Pleasure brings chiromancy out of the séance room and into the populace.
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