THE NEXT WORLD. FIFTY-SIX COMMUNICATIONS FROM EMINENT HISTORIANS, AUTHORS, LEGISLATORS, ETC., NOW IN SPIRIT LIFE. THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF MRS. SUSAN G.HORN
Book Details + Condition: James Burns (London). First Edition, 1890. Hardcover. 252 pages with advertisements at rear. Brown boards, gilt-lettered on spine. Famous channeling by one of the most noted mediums of the 19th century. Mrs. Horn channels a variety of deceased historical, political and other notable figures including: Abraham Lincoln; Benjamin Franklin; Charles Dickens; Prince Albert; Hans Christian Anderson; Fenimore Cooper; Titian; The Pope; Dr. Livingstone; Ralph Waldo Emerson; George Eliot; Garibaldi; Longfellow; Mary Queen of Scots; Herodotus; and many more. Each channeled spirit brings an educational message on their area of expertise. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards, with some discoloration; slight lean to book; embossed stamp of former owner (and noted occult book collector) Dr. Coleman; interior is clean and free of markings save light foxing to endpapers, bookseller stamp on Preface and inside rear board, and normal age-toning to pages.
