GHOSTS
Book Details + Condition: The Paebar Company (New York). Review copy and first edition, 1948. Hardcover with black pebbled boards. 154 pages. Faded review copy stamp on the front free endpaper. Author Alfred Askin Wright psychically channels a variety of famous deceased figures throughout history, documenting the inner workings of the spiritual world and their current employments. Of particular interest is commentary from the ghost of Thomas A. Edison, who claims to be creating new electrical inventions.
From the dedication: "To my devoted group of enlightened Spirit friends who have so lovingly contributed their time and talent and made possible the inspirational contact with the brain of the author to produce these Spirit Messages in their original form." Some of the channeled spirits include:
- Queen Isabella of Spain
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Solomon, King of Israel
- Thomas Alva Edison
- George Washington
- Abraham Lincoln
- Theodore Roosevelt
- James A. Garfield
- Mary Baker Eddy
- John D. Rockefeller
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
- Socrates
- And more.
A clean and firm copy of a very scarce first and review edition, with minor shelf wear; lightly bumped spine ends; interior is clean and free of markings, save faded review stamp to ffep.
