The Mystic Test Book or the Magic of the Cards.
Chicago: Temple Publishing Company, 1893 [but actually 1896].
First edition, early issue or printing but not the first. (Title and copyright pages dated 1893. Reference on copyright page to Supplement copyrighted in 1896.) 316, [4] pp. Publisher's leather over boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; plain wraps inexpertly glued over spine and part of front and back wraps with the handwritten spine title "Tarot." Fair with aforementioned rebinding, cracks and splits to binding, chipping to endappers, tidemark to plain wraps, chipping to leather covers, marginal notes in ink to six or so pages, first blank has penciled notes. A rare occult cartomancy / tarot book. Item #140944641
Price: $950.00