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The Green Ray by Thompson, Vance
Later Printing
Book Description
New York: A.L Burt Company, 1924. 310 pgs. Very Good condition green cloth hardcover. Light wear to cloth at edges and corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine a bit faded. Binding sound, Clean and unmarked with the exception of a paraphrase of a quotation by Edward Wallis Hoch written on the front endpaper: " There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us...". An odd tale admixing a bit of spiritualism and the occult in a nevel set in pre-Depression Era New York City. The lives and careers of two Wall Street investment banker partners become tumultuous after one of them encounters a doctor who promises to return his youthfulness through a series of therapeutic treatments with various colored light rays and hypnosis. The doctor is assisted by a capable but mysterious nurse and a Negro assistant whose skin color was transformed from black to white. The result is not quite the chakra tune-up he was expecting. By the author of "The Pointed Tower", "The Night Watchman and Other Poems", "Eat and Grow Thin", "The Scarlet Iris" and others. #1959.. Later Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Vance Thompson, The Green Ray, The Pointed Tower, The Scarlet Iris, Fiction, Vintage, Fantasy, Occult, Critic, Novelist, Poet, Color Therapy, Rays, Hypnosis, Charlatain.
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