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1873 WOMAN SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM - THE VOICE OF DEAD SPIRITS - BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. J.H. CONANT - THE WORLD'S MEDIUM OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. J. H. CONANT - THE WORLD'S MEDIUM OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Being a History of Her Mediumship from Childhood to the Present Time...Selections from Letters Verifying Spirit Communications Given through Her Organism...Specimen Messages and Invocations from Various Intelligences in the Other Life...etc., etc., etc. By [John W. Day]. Opening Remarks by Allen Putnam

BOSTON: William White and Company / Colby & Rich, 1873. Second Edition, so stated on the title page.

Hardcovers, brown cloth covered boards, blind embossed "Colby & Rich" publisher's logo on the front and rear covers, gilt titling on the spine (including "Colby & Rich / Boston" at the bottom of the spine), 5x7.5 inches, 322 pages plus two pages of publisher's ads at the rear.

GOOD condition: The book has been professionally conserved, making the covers and binding nice and solid; the covers have some scrapes and rubs and the spine gilt is somewhat faded. Internally, the thin yellow endpapers show some creasing and a bit of edgewear, there is a slight crease to the upper corner of the pages, the front blank endpapers and the frontispiece are foxed, otherwise all the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy, one of the nicer copies I have seen.

Though "William White and Company" is stated as the publisher on the title page, copyright page, and on the ads at the rear: the covers show "Colby & Rich" on the covers and spine. Here's what happened... Luther Colby was one of the founders of William White and Company. When William White died (or left, it appears uncertain which) in mid 1873, Luther Colby formed a partnership with Isaac B. Rich to take over the stock and operations of William White and Company. The first edition of this book was published in early 1873 before William White (died?), and was bound with "William White and Company" covers. After Colby & Rich took over White's stock and operations they published a second edition, also in 1873, with Colby & Rich covers but using the same first edition sheets, therefore leaving William White and Company as the stated publisher on the text pages.

About Mrs. J. H. Conant, Medium and Spiritualist (from Wikipedia and other Internet sources):

******Frances Ann Conant (aka J. H. Conant), b.1831 d.1875, was an American spiritualist medium. Conant was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Luther Colby, editor of the spiritualist newspaper the Banner of Light, funded Conant's public séances in Boston for seventeen years. Each successful seance was reported in the Banner of Light newspaper. Spiritualists claimed that Conant made contact primarily with the spirit of a deceased Boston physician who made diagnoses of disease and prescribed treatments. Conant was criticized by the Boston Courier and others for making fanatical, false and wild statements.******

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