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Arthur Conan Doyle. The Vital Message. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1919.
Price: US$14.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy with only light wear and some library marks.
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.82 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's book plate. Physical description; 227 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm. Subject; Spiritualism. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Vital Message. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1919.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first printing without the appendix at the end. A very good copy with toning to pages, areas of soiling and discoloration to covers.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Vital Message. New York George H. Doran Company 1919, 1919.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - American. Inscription and ink price on flyleaf, a little cloth fading, else very good copy without dust jacket.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
(Religion) DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Vital Message. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1919.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 160 PP. First issue without the additional four page appendix at rear. Original cloth with bold title stamping to cover and spine. Doyle's second book on religion and the afterlife. Hint of offsetting to endpapers. A clean copy overall.
Seller: Back in Time Rare Books, ABAA, FABA, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's book plate. Physical description; 227 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm. Subject; Spiritualism. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. VITAL MESSAGE. , 1919.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE VITAL MESSAGE. New York: George H. Doran Company, (1919). First American edition - second issue: an extra double leaf was inserted with a further appendix; p. vi reset, with the new appendix listed [A-D]. Illustrated with [2] ff. of photographs. 164 pp. 8vo., green cloth, title printed in black to spine and upper board. A near-fine and mostly clean copy, showing faint foxing to endpapers, a small spot of soiling to top-edge of bookblock, and traces of light damp-spotting to lower board. In an acceptable, slightly edgeworn dust jacket (white paper printed with green ink), with spine slightly darkened, dampstaining along top and bottom edges, and moderate soiling to upper panel and fold-in. (Green B25.b.i).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Vital Message. George H. Doran Co, New York, 1919.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, First Issue. Original green cloth, octavo. Early Spiritualism title in which the front panel of the jacket states: "Are the dead really dead?" "I have seen father, mother and dead soldier son photographed together. I have seen scores of spirit photographs- exact images of the dead." Near Fine, contemporary address at front pastedown, in Very Good printed dustjacket, some modest soiling to white panels, few tiny chips and general shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE VITAL MESSAGE. , 1919.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d.[1919]. Original grey-green cloth, with dust jacket. First American Edition of this sequel of sorts to THE NEW REVELATION, on the subject of spiritualism -- Doyle's new focal point after losing his son Kingsley in 1918 and his brother Innes earlier in 1919; "one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be," says Doyle in his preface. Included are plates with examples of "spirit photography." This copy is from the first issue (ending at page 160, without the later-added fourth appendix). The volume is in fine condition, unusual for such a cheaply-produced book; the uncommon dust jacket (which asks "ARE THE DEAD REALLY DEAD?") is nearly fine as well, with one tiny hole in the rear panel. Green & Gibson B25b.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.