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1921ref. 5922Vedanta Ashrama. 1921. 8th Edition. Hardcover. Good neatly written notes on a rear end page front end page address. From the library of spiritualist minister John W. Bunker with his bookplate two pages browned from something laid in. A solid binding unmarked text. No dust jacket if issued. This is an early edition not a recent reprint. ; Frontispiece of author. ; 97 pages . Vedanta Ashrama hardcover
1929ref. 7241Washington: Published By the Author. 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good a little rubbing page edge toning a small pastedown dealer sticker. A solid binding unmarked text. No dust jacket issued. A scarce title. ; 93 pages . Published By the Author hardcover
1915ref. 8810Boston: Christopher Press 1915. First edition. 8vo 76pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Boards worn and soiled ownership stamps on front endpapers front hinge tender. A good sound copy. Uncommon text from Cora L.V. Richmond née Scott detailing her 6-day astral travel and gradual return to her physical body. In the book Richmond details her travels through time and space and encounters with various spiritual entities in different realms all of which give her great insight into the afterlife. Cora L.V. Scott 1840-1923 who adopted the last names of her 4 husbands was one of the more prominent American mediums of the last half of the 19th century. She cofounded the National Spiritualist Association of Churches in 1893 and was a supporter of pantheistic spiritualism. Of this first edition of 1915 OCLC cites 8 holdings. . Christopher Press unknown
2008ref. 066146Peter Lang 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 410pp. Glossy boards not issued with dust jacket. Bible & Theology in Africa series Vol. 6. . Peter Lang Hardcover
1977ref. 066147Oxford University Press 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 310pp. Monogram doodle on fly otherwise tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. . Oxford University Press Hardcover
1945ref. 9954Burlingame CA 1945. TLS on single sheet 11x8.5" recto only. Previous folds. Includes original envelope with Burlingame postmark and White's stamp to verso along with Christmas seal. Short note from American spiritualist and author of adventure fiction Stewart Edward White 1873-1946. White writes a response to Kansas Historian Alan W. Farley who sent a request for an autograph. In reply White recounts a Mark Twain story about signing books. "I don't mind one bit writing in your books; but I'd rather go to hell than do up packages and I hate crowded excursions too." . unknown
2004ref. 066063Spirit House Press 2004. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 94-page stapled booklet illustrated. Signed by author. Spirit House Press Paperback
1918ref. 9865New York: George H. Doran Company 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover in gray cloth boards 122pp. Doran monogram on title. Spine ends bumped jacket with shelf label to spine chipping to front panel edges and spine ends. A good example of likely a second issue which advertises Doyle's 1919 title The Vital Message. Doyle's first book on spiritualism with other books from the publisher on this topic listed on the rear panel of the jacket. George H. Doran Company hardcover
ref. 0243916450.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1974ref. 065961New York : Causeway Books 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Slightly musty. Several tears to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. 301pp. New York : Causeway Books hardcover
1975ref. 065990Delacorte Press 1975. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 336pp. Owner names on fly moderate age toning 2 droplet marks to exterior page edge. Several tears to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. Delacorte Press hardcover
1948ref. 065991Boston: Christopher Publishing House 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 100pp. Penciled owner name on fly. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Christopher Publishing House Hardcover
1975ref. 057278Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 336pp. Owner address label and gift inscription to preliminary page moderate edgewear/chipping to edges of price-clipped dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. Related news. Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence Hardcover
2007ref. 065785Peter Lang Inc. International Academic Publishers 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Clean tight copy in glossy boards not issued with dust jacket. 410pp. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Hardcover
ref. 0365122874.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1955ref. 065676London: John M. Watkins 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised Edition. Tight copy in mylar-proteded dust jacket. Uniform age toning to pages. John M. Watkins Hardcover
1927ref. 4683El Paso 1927. Very good. iv742v-viii pp. Original photographic wrappers with cloth tape spine. Light wear and soiling internally clean. The purported autobiography of Cuauhtemoc the last Aztec emperor as received by a medium. Cuauhtemoc surrendered to Hernan Cortes and was later tortured in an attempt to extort further riches from the Aztec. Interestingly the work seems to be channeling Cortes' perspective as he is the credited party at the end signing off "Adios y que al volver sea para cumplir nuestros ofrecimientos llenos del amor con que os distingue vuestro hermano." The final few pages are dedicated to the methods and talents of the medium Benjamin Salazar. Two copies in OCLC at the University of Texas El Paso and the Instituto Tecnologico in Mexico. unknown
1973ref. 065580International Biogenic Society 1973. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 48pp. International Biogenic Society Paperback
1975ref. 131526LONDON : SPIRITUALIST PRESS 1975 Burgundy Boards with black blocked titles to spine 220 x 140 mm approx. 224 pp. 16 pp of b/w photos on glossy plates. 1975 Reprint by Spiritualist Press. First published in 1959 by Herbert Jenkins Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Very Good Book -light shelf fading to extremities of boards no previous owner name insc. nor annotations. Dust Jacket - moderate shelf rubbing with a little loss - principally an 8 x 12 mm approx chip to bottom corner of upper panel price clipped in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket. SPIRITUALIST PRESS hardcover
1971ref. 065553Bobbs-Merrill Company 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Endpapers are heavily toned where news article was once tucked yellowed tape shadows from old mylar now in new fresh mylar. Name and notation penned to title page spine lean. 221pp. Bobbs-Merrill Company Hardcover
1917ref. 9437London: Elliot Stock 1917. First edition. 8vo 4 102pp. Publisher's printed gray wrappers with French Flaps. Page block lightly toned endpapers more so. Wrappers with some light smudging and rubbing. Near fine. Scarce first volume of this anonymous collection of automatic communications from the spirit "Meslom." A second collection was published the following year. Arthur Conan Doyle quoted this book in his History of Spiritualism 1926 and praised its "lofty tone" being "full of aspirations towards higher things" including the consoling "God of Love." Only the British Library Cambridge University and National Library of Scotland hold volume 1 according to OCLC. . Elliot Stock unknown
2007ref. 065428Cornell University Press 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 293pp. Clean tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Cornell University Press Hardcover
1931ref. 9188London: Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Junior 1931. First edition. 8vo 49 1pp. Publisher's brown cloth spine lettered in black in printed black paper jacket. Spine cocked some scuffing to boards along bottom edge occult bookstore stamp to ffep. Jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners else nicely preserved. Very good. Scarce first edition of this short book written not by a spiritualist but a linguist. Whymant was a professor of Oriental literature and philosophy and acted as advisor to the embassy of the Republic of China in London. In this book Whymant describes the seances of medium George Valiantine at which he was present to translate the archaic Chinese languages spoken by the spirits. The jacket blurb states: "To his astonishment the voice explains and corrects a number of passages from the Shih King of Confucius. Some of these poems have been unintelligible for ages and the subject of endless controversy." This book was also published in the U.S. in an illustrated jacket but the U.K. edition remains scarce in the plain black and white jacket. A nice copy. Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Junior unknown
1990ref. 063252Westgate Press 1990. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. Tiny chip to base of spine and rear cover otherwise tight copy 208pp. Westgate Press Paperback
1988ref. 060053Westgate Press 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. 208pp. Mild foxing and bump to exterior page edges and endpapers. Text clean. Westgate Press Paperback
