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Description
SEEN AND UNSEEN: A NOVEL
Book Details + Condition: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers (London). Scarce First Edition, 1876. Hardcover. 309 pages, followed by publisher advertisements. A novel about a young girl, Beatrice, who becomes a medium when her brother Ernest dies. Her sweetheart Richard does not approve of spiritualism, but the obstacles to their romance are finally removed. Occult romance of a rather bloodless sort. In one chapter an angel guides Beatrice on a visit to an idealized earth where a gallery of statues represents the changing state of human emotions on earth, time breathing them into greater or lesser nobility, according to their fate on earth. Tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; light shelf wear to boards; lean to book; light foxing to first few and last pages; text is clean and unmarked save owner information on first blank page.
