THE VITAL MESSAGE.
by DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Wear/No Jacket.
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine just a bit sunned. Free-endpapers browned as is usual. Ink owner's name on front pastedown. This title followed "The New Revelation" and again looked at Spiritualism as related to science, religion, and life. Appendix on spirit photography with several photo reproductions. 226pp. (Green and Gibson B25a). . First English Edition.. Black Cloth.. Minor Wear/No Jacket.. Octavo.
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
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001378
- Title
- THE VITAL MESSAGE.
- Author
- DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket.
- Edition
- First English Edition.
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Toronto
- Date Published
- 1919
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- SPIRITUALISM, ENGLISH LITERATURE, DOYLE
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Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
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