Item #62577 The Next World, Fifty-six Communications from Eminent Historians, Authors, Legislators, Etc., Now in Spirit-Life. Judge Edmonds - "Spirit-.

The Next World, Fifty-six Communications from Eminent Historians, Authors, Legislators, Etc., Now in Spirit-Life.

London: James Burns, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. iv + 252pp. +xxii publisher's catalogue. Original brown cloth with blind borders on upper board, gilt titling etc to spine. Discourses on spirituality, the spirit world, the afterworld, etc., supposedly expressed through the mediumship of Mrs. Susan G. Horn from various deceased notables including: Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Judge Edmonds, Charles Darwin, Mary - Queen of Scots, Horace Greeley, Prince Albert, Abraham Lincoln, Hans Christian Anderson, Czar of Russia, The Pope, etc. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal blind-stamped on the first blank. Cloth a bit rubbed and darkened, spine slightly canted and a bit darkened with some chafing to edges, spine ends and corners lightly bumped and chafed, page edges darkened, endpapers a bit browned and discoloured, "The Greater World Association" inkstamp to rear endpapers, bookplate of Stratford Society of Spiritualists at front (loosely inserted), pages toned but unmarked. Still - overall a solid internally clean VG copy. Item #62577

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