Item #47398 Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern. Eld. E. F. HANSON.
Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.

Demonology or Spiritualism, Ancient and Modern.

Belfast, Maine: Privately published, E. F. Hanson, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 310pp. Original cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. B/w frontis. By a Member of the "Maine Eldership of the Church of God". The author was born into a Spiritualist family about five years after modern Spiritualism, as such, had first begun to sweep America and for the first twenty-three years of his life attended numerous Spiritualist meetings, seances, etc. He then had an epiphany, in which he saw Spiritualism as the Devil's trickery: causing him to abandon it and write this expose. Cloth a bit rubbed and faded overall, light bumps and chafing to spine ends & corners, page-edges browned, owner's name-stamps on front pastedown & verso of frontis, tiny fore-edge tear to front free endpaper, pages lightly browned - still, a solid VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #47398

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