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The Undiscovered Country A Sequence of Spirit-Messages Describing Death and the After-World Selected from Published and Unpublished Automatic Writings 1874-1918.
191814914London New York Toronto and Melbourne; Cassell and Company Ltd. 1918. 1918. First edition. Octavo pp. xxi including the half-title 1 blank 270. Publisher's original brown buckram titled to paper spine label; brown end-papers; fore-edge uncut. Blurb pasted to front free end-paper. Contemporary ownership inscriptions in ink to front paste-down and head of title-page. Spots of soiling to cloth spine-label rubbed. Contents neat. A very good copy. An anthology of psychographic works edited by the occultist Harold Bayley 1869-1965. With a two-page introduction by Conan Doyle in which the author describes Spiritualism as 'a new wave rolling in from the dim immensity of the beyond carrying cleansing and freshness to the somewhat stagnant pools into which our present religious systems have settled.' Green and Gibson C25. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne; Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1918. hardcover
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