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Alan Leo's Astrological Manuals: My Friends' Horoscopes
Alan Leo's Astrological Manuals: My Friends' Horoscopes
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  • Title: "My Friends' Horoscopes": Alan Leo's Astrological Manuals Fifty Plain Map Forms with a Ruled Blank Page Facing Each Map (Alan Leo's Astrological Manuals. No. XII)
  • Author: Alan Leo
  • Publisher: London: L. N. Fowler & Co.
  • Date: 1910
  • Dimensions: 6.2 x 4.75 inches
  • Hardcover, 120 pages
  • Most notable is the horoscope of Herschel McCoy, the Academy Award nominated Hollywood costume designer, whose Remarks page reads "promises great rise" and the horoscope of John Meredith Graham II of Rome, Georgia, art collector, curator, and interior decorator for Jacqueline Kennedy during the White House renovations. Also included is the horoscope of David Prince of Wales (Edward VIII). Remarks pages contain such notes as "an artist for winter scenes," "will marry one born a great distance from where she was born," "Is thin and tall but good looking," "occult, excellent memory," "many women enemies," and "naturally rosy cheeks," among many others, several comments relating to art careers and/or the occult.

    Alan Leo (born William Frederick Allan, 1860-1917) was an influential author, publisher, and theosophist, but most remembered as the "father of modern astrology."

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  • Condition
    Fair, lacking pages 15-3, 62, 55-58. Green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in black and astrological device stamped in black to upper board. Mild scattered rubbing and edgewear. Instain to rear board. Front hinge cracked. Stain to front endpapers through to page 33. Bretano's bookseller label to rear pastedown. Smoky smell to pages and binding. Many leaves loose, tape to gutters of pages 12 and 13. Neatly inked notations to 27 horoscope map forms, with the last only partially filled out, and 12 blank map forms. Birth dates of "friends" range from 1877 to 1932, the last two maps appear in a different hand than the rest. Most filled map forms have notes pencilled in under the lined "Remarks" pages facing the map forms.
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