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Ernest Holmes

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Ernest Holmes

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Auction Date:2012 Nov 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Spiritual writer and leader (1887–1960). He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement. Signed book: The Science of Mind. Later printing. NY: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1957. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 667 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page to Baseball Hall of Famer and Kentucky governor A. B. Chandler, “To A. B. ‘Happy’ Chandler, whom Boyd Cole says will be our next president. Sincerely yours, Ernest Holmes Feb 1958.” Also signed and inscribed on the front pastedown to Chandler by Boyd Cole, proclaiming him the “President of the U.S.A. 1960!” In very good condition, with scattered toning to signed page and pastedowns, and some scattered toning, foxing, and soiling to dustjacket, as well as a few tears. The first time we have offered anything from Holmes. Book condition: VG/VG-. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; light soiling and foxing to exterior and feps; very slightly shelf-cocked (binding remains strong); feps slightly yellowed. Dust jacket has small chips/tears and creases to edges with one larger tear (approx. 1.5”) to lower edge at spine-fold; foxed and soiled; spine slightly sunned.