THE SPIRITS IN PRISON AND OTHER STORIES ON THE LIFE AFTER DEATH
Book Details + Condition: Early edition, 1892. 440 pages, with index in rear. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards, gilt–lettered on spine. Contents include: Was Immortality Taught by Moses; The Old Testament in its bearing on the Life after Death; The Teachings of the New testament as to the Life after Death; The Descent into Hell; The Salvation of the Heathen; Egyptian Immortality; Job's Belief in Immortality; Prayers for the Dead; The Teaching of Bishop Buttler as to the Life after Death and Annihilation of the Wicked; and more. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; rubbed corners; chipping to spine ends; light wear to boards; Cathedral Library bookplate (NYC) and ex-libris of William Mercer Grosvenor on front endpapers; rear endpaper chipped, with remnants of "date due" slip; interior is clean and free of markings save some small numbers in pen on title page.
