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The Vital Message
by DOYLE Arthur Conan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder, 1919 undated so assumed first edition of 1919 as foreword is dated so, black cloth, backstrip sunned, lower joint completely split, first page is the half title as published, this is offset browned, has small ink name, book internally clean and VG, 228pp book on Spiritualism and after death survival / contact by creator of Sherlock Holmes, with 4 plates, (500 grams ) . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
Synopsis
From the book:In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze which draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet which, when we attain it, will make our present civilisation seem barren and uncouth. Already our vanguard is well over the pass. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches so clearly before those eyes which are opened to see it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011724
- Title
- The Vital Message
- Author
- DOYLE Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Spiritualism Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes first Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- OCCULT NEW AGE METAPHYSICS;
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Christchurch, Canterbury
About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
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