Beyond the Vail, being a Compilation, with Notes and Explanations, of Narrations and Illustrations of Spirit Experiences, Spoken, Written and Made by Full-Form Visible Materializations, setting up a Scientific and Personal Verification

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First Edition. - Hardcover - Hudson-Kimberly, Kansas City, MO - 1901 - Hardcover. Large octavo. 500pp. Original blue cloth gilt-lettered on spine. B/w frontis. portrait. B/w illustrations, patterned endpapers. Index. A book recording the results of seances held by psychic William W. Aber, his wife, Sallie W. Aber, J. H. Pratt and his wife, Josephine, and [the author] J. H. Nixon starting in December 1899 at Spring Hill, Kansas. The volume is divided into two parts: the first - some 412 pages - records the chief points, conversations with spirits etc. that occured during some 81 seances. The second part comprises "written experiences of various spirits while in materialized form. " - this includes several discourses on spirit photography. The book is illustrated throughout with spirit drawings. Although fully independent of it, it is a sequel to the author's "Rending the Vail" (1899). Some rubbing to loth of spine, edges & corners, old blue book tape repair to bottom of spine, spine lettering dulled, page-edges browned, a shaken and with a little spot browning to fore-edge. Still a solid, internally-clean Good+ copy (no dust jacket). Scarce. - Beyond the Vail, being a Compilation, with Notes and Explanations, of Narrations and Illustrations of Spirit Experiences, Spoken, Written and Made by Full-Form Visible Materializations, setting up a Scientific and Personal Verification of "What We Shall Be" and of A Code of Ethics, requisite to the Most Speedy Realization of the Highest and Purest Felicity Attainable in the Future Life [ Beyond the Veil ].