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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (SD). This is a very rare book. I found only one other original copy for sale on the Internet. You can see the covers in the photos. They have a little bit of soiling, two brown spots off the front top edge. There's also a thin vertical lighter green area on the rear cover (third photo), never saw that before. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. There is little crinkling and rubbing at the spine ends. There is a little dent in the same place at the top edge of the front and rear cover. The cover edges are otherwise in very good shape, no rubbing. The corners have small spots of rubbing. The front top one has a tiny spot of rub-through. The page edges look very clean. The spine has a slight to moderate forward lean. The book is solidly bound. There is a very thin space at the juncture between the front inside cover and front end paper. The front cover is very solidly bound, no give at all. The rear cover is very solidly bound as well. The pages are all nicely bound. I found one instance of a very thin space between two facing pages where the book may have been left lying open. Both of these pages are very solidly bound from top to bottom. The pages are very clean. I turned over all of them. I found only a handful of small spots. Between pages 33 and 56 there is a crease (probably from a bump) just above the bottom corners, far from the print. There are also some top corners that have a very mild, very light, semi-crease. There are no placeholder creases. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. There is a small, lightly penciled name on the front end paper (easily erased if one chose). There is no other writing to be found anywhere in the book. From the first paragraph of the Preface: 'This volume is given to the public in the hope that it may be a small contribution to the great study of the soul and the real functions of the mind. The extraordinary phenomena presented by Modern Spiritualism have drawn much attention to their cause and value in estimating the possibilities of conscious continuance of life after the death of the body; they throw light on the subject of immortality and the conditions of life in the future state, and will more and more, as time goes on, become the serious study of those who seeking for a scientific basis for the belief in immortality, and a future life for the children of the human race.'.