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Underhill, Evelyn.
Essentials of Mysticism and Other Essays.
Publisher: J M Dent & Sons Ltd, London & Toronto;
Date of Publication: 1920
Stock Code: 5925
First edition. Octavo, pp., vii, [1], 245, [3] adverts. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles and motif to spine and floral roundel in blind to upper board. Unclipped grey dust-jacket with rose motif and green titles. A clean tight copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Dust-jacket lightly soiled with a few nicks & creases to edge and minor loss to corners and head of spine. A near fine book in a very good dust-jacket. Essays on mysticism theory and practice with lives of mystics from pagan Plotinus up to date of printing. Most previously published elsewhere, though revised and/or completely rewritten for this volume. Scarce, particularly so in the 1920 dust-jacket. £350.00