Description:
Innes & Sons, 1905. Olive cloth boards, titles on paper label on spine. Cloth split along rear gutter. Damp staining to extremities, but binding remains intact. Previous owner's name in large cursive, in black ink and date 28 October 1915 on FFEP. Pictorial frontispiece with facsimile signature. Damp stain evident around edges of pages throughout book. Does overlap with text block on lower fore-corner of every page, but text remains legible throughout. Pages wavy from damp, but all present and accounted for. Bucke's foundational volume on mysticism and free thought, in the revised, 1905 edition following the 1901 first edition. Uncommon in such an early edition. Due to the condition flaws, a chance to own an early copy at a more modest price. . Hardcover. Fair. 4to.
THE MORAL NATURE and The Great Sympathetic. A Continuation of "The Functions of the Great Sumpathetic." by Bucke, R.M - 1878
by Bucke, R.M
THE MORAL NATURE and The Great Sympathetic. A Continuation of "The Functions of the Great Sumpathetic."
by Bucke, R.M
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
London, Ontario: Printed by the Free Press Book and Job Printing Company, 1878. Pp. 9, Grey, printed paper covers, stapled binding. Inscribed at head of front cover: "Dr. N. Beemer Esq M.D. With the Author's best regards". Dr. Nelson Henry Beemer was Richard Maurice Bucke's assistant at the London Ontario Insane Asylum. Slightly dust soiled, else very good. . INSCRIBED. First Edition, Signed. Soft Cover. Very Good.. Octavo.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (CA)
- Format/Binding Paperback
- Book Condition Used - Very Good.
- Edition First Edition, Signed
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Printed by the Free Press Book and Job Printing Company
- Place of Publication London, Ontario
- Date Published 1878
- Keywords Whitman
- Size Octavo