Spirit World Breakthrough.
London: Regency Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 128pp. Original navy cloth gilt-lettered on spine, red endpapers, b&w illustrations, glossary / appendix. Described by publisher as "a compilation of fifty messages from famous persons who have made the transition from this world to the next" including: Cesare Borgia; Cleopatra; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Franz Schubert, Lee Harvey Oswald; Louis Pasteur; Marilyn Monroe; Mark Twain Martin Luther; Mary Baker Eddy; Merlin; Walt Whitman; William Shakespeare; and many other notables. Shakespeare sends his offering in verse, while both Sappho and Whitman both offer poems. Skeptics have often commented on the banality of messages purporting to have been received from "the other side" and those here do little to challenge that assertion. Title-page states the authors' "Intermediary" as Nicodemus Theopholus. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, though not marked as such. Lower corners and spine ends a bit bruised, page-edges lightly toned, otherwise a tight clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (Dramatically illustrated dust jacket is very lightly chafed and chipped at edges and folds, rear panel a little darkened, price clipped. Now in mylar dust jacket cover). Item #53574
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