Light from the Spirit World: The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine and Others to the Seventh Circle in the Spirit World

by Charles Hammond

$1,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Rochester: D.M. Dewey, 1852. First edition, first printing of one of the earliest texts on the automatic writing. x, 264 pp with frontisportrait and diagram. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in blind and gilt with publisher's advertisement endsheets. Good with amateur repairs to spine ends, light soiling and scuffing to cloth with loss and softening to corners. Foxing and light age staining to end sheets,

• Printing: first

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