Boston: William White and Company, 1873.
Price: $350.00
Hardcover. First edition. Opening remarks by Allen Putnam. Octavo. 322, [2 ads] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Mrs. J. H. Conant. Binding slightly cocked with moderate wear, text with shallow marginal tidemarks on all three edges throughout, upper hinge with a very small tear and front fly with same, frontispiece tissue guard a bit foxed with a small chip, sound and near very good.
A biography of the medium Mrs. J. H. Conant (1831-1875), born Frances Ann Crowell in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. From the preface: "I am told, and believe, that Spirit Theodore Parker outlined and dictated its essential substance, and may be deemed its responsible producer. Mr. John W. Day... minuted in shorthand what the spirit desired to put forth as a biography of his medium... ."
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