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Telling Fortunes by Cards
Cicely Kent (jacket and title page) or Cecily Kent (cover)
Like the other title, Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves, this title is not consistent in how the author's name is spelled: see the jacket and cover, below. They seem to be the only two books written using this name, or variants of this name, and I can find nothing about the author other than entries on these books, so it was probably a pseudonym.
This title was published in 1922 by Small, Maynard and Company (listed in Jisc, not seen) and by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York using the jacket designed by Blampied. It seems to have been more popular in the USA than in the UK.
First edition
Bibliography code: JEN-21.2i
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins
Series: none
Year: [1921]
Format: 8vo
Pages: 192, pp 2 adverts
Binding: Fourth printing. Red cloth with 'Telling Fortunes by Cards Cecily Kent's new method of divination clearly explained' in black, with back line around edge. Title, author, and publisher on spine in black. 'A Herbert Jenkins book' and winged horse symbol on rear.
Size: 191 x 130 mm
Dust jacket: signed Blam, over left shoulder of Jack
Internal illustrations: yes, not by Blampied
Price: 2 shillings 6 pence
Printing history: Fourth printing, no date
Printed by: Purnell and Sons, Paulton (Somerset) and London
Notes: I have only seen a fourth printing. The copy in the British Library has been rebound.
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Image of cover and spine (click to enlarge)
First US edition
Bibliography code: JEN-21.2ii
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
Series: none
Year: 1922
Format: not known
Pages: 192 pp, 2 pp blank
Binding: Pale blue cloth with title in black on cover within black rim; title, surname of author and publisher in black on the spine
Size: 194 x 132 mm
Dust jacket: same as UK edition
Internal illustrations: yes, 3 coloured plates bound in, not by Blampied
Price: $1.25 on 8th printing, 1936
Printing history: 3rd printing 1927; 5th printing, 1935; 8th printing, March 1936; 10th printing 1946
Printed by: The Murray Printing Company, Cambridge, Mass
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Notes: This is the first American jacket I have found by Blampied for books first published by Herbert Jenkins. This suggests that there may be other American books with a jacket by Blampied.