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Conan Doyle, Arthur; Bayley, Harold (ed.).
The Undiscovered Country A Sequence of Spirit-Messages Describing Death and the After-World Selected from Published and Unpublished Automatic Writings 1874-1918.
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne;
Date of Publication: 1918
Stock Code: 14914
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.’ £200.00