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REVELATIONS OF A SPIRIT MEDIUM. St. Paul: Farrington & Co., 1891. FIRST EDITION. Dark blue pictorial wrappers bearing an illustration of a spirit séance on the upper. Illustrated. 12mo. Considerably chipped and browned, with upper wrapper nearly separating, but binding and spine intact. Folding paper case. Uncommon. See Exemplars, page 199.
Many copies of this work were reportedly destroyed by mediums who were afraid that the exposure in its pages would ruin their reputations. The book was credited to an anonymous author writing under the pseudonym “A. Medium.”