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Gleanings from Maeterlinck
by Maeterlinck, Maurice; (De Mattos, Alexander - translator)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Methuen, London, 1917. First Edition. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. black titles & decoration spine; a selection of philosophical essays from three of Maeterlinck's later works, namely - 'Our Eternity', 'The Unknown Guest' & 'The Wrack of the Storm' - which give his views on such matters as communications with the dead, our ultimate consciousness, knowledge of the future, etc. & published here at a time when to quote the compiler - "Never in history have so many women and men, stricken suddenly and without warning, sought so unanimously and painfully to penetrate the veil wherein the world's oldest mystery is shrouded."; the pages are browned with age & their edges quite fragile; there is a tiny hole in the spine; 253 pages Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Afterlife; Psychic Phenomina; Mysticism; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: EST00166. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EST00166
- Title
- Gleanings from Maeterlinck
- Author
- Maeterlinck, Maurice; (De Mattos, Alexander - translator)
- Format/Binding
- Blue Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Esoteric/Maeterlinck/Philosophy/Essays/Afterlife/Psychic Phenomina/Mysticism Philosophy; Afterlife; Psychic Phenomina; Mysticism; Religion & Theology. Unbranded Maeterlinck, Maurice; (De Mattos, Alexander - translator) Gleanings from Maeter
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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