Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
by Hubbard, L. Ron
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Hermitage House, 1950. Fourth Printing. Very Good/Very Good. Fourth printing of the first edition. Signed by L. Ron Hubbard and inscribed to a former owner on the verso of the front free endpaper. Very Good with light soiling and shelfwear to cloth, waterstain to yellow topstain only minutely intruding into margins. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with some wear at the extremities, chipping, toning and soiling. The main text of Scientology, scarcely found signed by it's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Synopsis
"A Hubbard publication." Includes index.
Reviews
On Jul 2 2017, a reader said:
This is the one that started it all! So many people hurt, so much hypnotism to perform. And let's never take them out of their trance for good measure! This one's 800 bucks, buck there are 1000 copies of more recent work...some day this will all be just a curious memory. Boo! to Scientology.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140940217
- Title
- Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
- Author
- Hubbard, L. Ron
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth Printing
- Publisher
- Hermitage House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...