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Published by Ralston University Company, 1912
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. No DJ. General wear to cover edges/corners. Prev. owner's name written, in pencil, on the top edge, inside front cover. Content pages are clean and unmarked. Back hinge is broken. Front hinge is good. 206 pages.
Published by Ralston University Press, 1926
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
unknown_binding. Condition: Acceptable. Cover is begining to detach from the spine of the pages at the back of the cover. Some staining and wear to the page edges and cover.
Published by Andesite Press 8/20/2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1375623923ISBN 13: 9781375623926
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Lessons in the Mechanics of Personal Magnetism 0.44. Book.
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Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021227420ISBN 13: 9781021227423
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Franklin Classics 10/10/2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 0342155083ISBN 13: 9780342155088
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Lessons in the Mechanics of Personal Magnetism 0.81. Book.
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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 145 Language: English.
Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2023
ISBN 10: 1019455209ISBN 13: 9781019455203
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Ralston University Press, Meriden, CT: 1926., 1926
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 400p. Small 4to. Original full red cloth binding. Twelfth edition. Early ownership on title page. Under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury, Webster Edgerly was a prolific author, and his books were very influential in the era. His promotion of whole grain cereals through his Ralston Health Club and University was responsible for the founding success of the Ralston Purina company. PHREN 2 0.0.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1895 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 339 Ralston Health Club , Edmund Shaftesbury , Webster Edgerly , Ralston health club.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 456 Language: English Pages: 456.
Published by Shaftesbury College Press, Baltimore: 1891., 1891
Hardcover. 203p. Tall 8vo. Original full purple cloth binding, gold lettered. Extremities bumped. Hardbound. Nice copy. PHYCULT/1 0.0.
Published by Ralston Health Club Press, Washington, DC, 1898
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: good+. 2nd Edition. Ralstonism: The Hope of the Human Race ('R'egime 'A'ctivity 'L'ight 'S'trength 'T'emperation 'O'xygen 'N'ature) Edgerly was the founder of Ralstonism & advocated for a new race based on Caucasians, free from "impurities" & the castration of non-Caucasian males at birth. He later went into business with the head of Purina Co. which then took the name Ralston Purina. 192 pages; patterned eps; contents clean; b/w illustrations; 9.5" tall; silver & gilt lettering & decor on front of green cover with some biopredation to edges & spine. Hardcover.
Published by Ralston Company, 1904
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First of this edition. First of the RALSTON HEALTH CLUB edition, 1904. 597 pages, expanded from the 1895 edition. Large, handsome original brown cloth, with dramatic gilt lettering on the spine. Very good. The text begins with Shaftesbury's famous "Anti-Death" philosophy. 44 "Special (Natural) Treatments" for the fundamental conditions of human ill-health. Published for (paying) members of the Ralston Health Club. Webster Edgerly, aka Edmund Shaftesbury and "Dr Ralston", founded a series of clubs and companies that promoted the idea that with proper regimes and control of body, mind and spirit - one could advance health and extend life almost indefinitely through the graduated practices he outlined in his books.
Published by Ralston University Company, 1912
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Ralston University Company, 1912. First edition. Very good in original brown cloth and handsome stylized titling on board and spine. 880 pages, lead the student through 1000 lessons in a graduated series of "realms" (including stellar) with assignments and "reports" to the "Ralston University Company" that span the fullest range of spiritualist, visionary-religious, self-help and entrepreneurial ambitions of the 19th century. "This Training System is the Climax Work of the Temple of Philosophy otherwise known as The Mind and Thought Society.Future Seeing is a Study of Destiny: and any such study is 'The best intellectual development of the deepest and broadest philosophy that can be presented to the world'". Conceived and financed by the founders of the Ralston-Purina Company. For a fascinating narrative of the seeding of the American health food enterprise in the Hermetic Revival of the Renaissance and, in the 19th century, of Swedenborg's vision of a spiritualand moral regeneration of Man(kind) through a deliberately induced physical process of inner alchemy and physio-mental-spiritual cultivation, see "Paradise in a Breakfast BowlAlbertWebsterEdgerly and theGospel of Glame"John Benedict Buescher. Not available for expedited shipment. International shipment may require additional shipping.
Published by Ralston Health Club, 1900
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume I. (I do not know that there were other volumes published.) Thick 4to. (25 cm.) 528p. Illustrated with 14 full-page color plates showing various scenes associated with the Ralston Way (e.g., "The Fourth Arch of Knowledge"), and with more than 350 black and white figures throughout, as well as very many black and white drawings, including of idealized landscapes in the Ralston Gardens. Index. Bound in at the back is the so-called "Red Form", which was an application form for admittance into the Ralston Club Brown pebble-grained cloth with gilt letters and decorations on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Some wear to extremities with the corners just rubbed through, top and bottom of spine just beginning to fray, covers ever so lightly soiled, gilt bright, occasional pencil check marks, as though someone is keeping track of things done the Ralston way, else very good to near fine with no other internal markings. No dust jacket. The brainchild of Webster Edgerly (1852-1926), Ralstonism was a social movement in 19th century in the U.S. which some think numbered as many as 800,000 followers. Beginning as the Ralston Health Club, which published Edgerly's writings, Ralstonism was an hierarchical organization where members were ranked according to the number of "degrees" they had, which ranged from 0 to 100. Members advanced five degrees at a time, and each Ralston book that a member purchased counted as five degrees. According to Edgerly, the letters for the word RALSTON came from Regime, Activity, Light, Strength, Temperation, (sic) Oxygen and Nature, though some doubt this is true. Edgerly believed his followers were the founding members of a new race, based on Caucasians, and free from "impurities". He advocated the castration of all "anti-racial" (non-Caucasian) males at birth. Edgerly, who was sometimes called "Dr. Ralston," wrote 82 of what would today be called self-help books under the pseudonym "Edmund Shaftesbury". They covered subjects including diet, exercise, punctuation, sexual magnetism, artistic deep breathing, facial expressions and even ventriloquism! In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company, which made whole wheat cereal that Ralstonites were to consume. The book offered here is the foundational work of Ralstonism.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Have you ever wanted to take over the world with mind power? This is the book for you. A fresh, white copy in the wonderful pulp 1950s dust jacket] Hardcover. Small tear on dj, but very good. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Very good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 407 pages ; 22 cm. "A complete and up-to-date system of lessons in the science and practice of thought-interpretation for all uses in life, preceded by thirty-six lessons in the study of mind and thought." Subjects: Pseudo-science; quackery; mind control.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Two handwritten manuscripts by Albert Webster Edgerly, the founder of the Ralstonism Movement, a late 19th Century movement that stressed a healthy diet, questionable science, and the use of personal magnetism to control others. The manuscripts consist of: 1. *All's Well That Ends Well: The Great Story of the Day!* Handwritten manuscript novel. 19 signatures of 24 leaves, each totaling 904 numbered pages. The first signature lacks the first leaf (probably a cover leaf or title page) and the conjugate leaf (pages 39/40). Modest toning and foxing, mostly on the first and last leaf, a few hand corrections, but overall a clean and probably final draft manuscript copy, very good or better. A very long novel described in the first sentence as: "The history of a young lady during her three years course through the High School of Lynn; her first entrance and introduction to the Teachers; her opinion of the school and bright prospects for future happiness therein; her bright hopes clouded and obscured; her struggles for the right; despondency and recklessness, and the final, glorious end which awaited her after all her troubles." An extremely lengthy and melodramatic unpublished manuscript. Each of the 45 chapters (except the last) has a brief or several sentences long introduction summarizing what is in the chapter, which, in addition to the trials and tribulations of the heroine Minnie Marsh, includes such intriguing chapters such as Chapter 17: "George Marsh's visit to the Lawrence Cotton Factory. Death of George!"; Chapter 19: "Mr. Browning 'washes his hands of the whole affair.' Minnie is locked in the Room of Disgrace"; and Chapter 22: "The three telegrams. George saved by Galvanism. Minnie's interview with Mr. Graham. His opinion of her." 2. *A Guide to Moral Elevation; or, Fifty Resolutions Formed on New Year's Day by Lizzie E. Edgerly to be Devotely Kept during the Year 1876: Lynn, December 31 - 1875 To L.E.E. from A.W.E*. This second manuscript is a small notebook (5" x 3.5") with a thin crepe purple cover with canvas spine. Some creases on the front cover, else near fine. Apparently a New Year's gift prepared by Edgerly for his sister. Two page title and introduction followed by 50 handwritten pages, each with a resolution. Most of the advice is whimsical: "No. 6: I will never speak an angry word if there is nobody present to hear me"; "No. 29: I will never stutter while calling the cat"; "No. 40: I will tell the truth on Sundays"; and "No. 44: I will never shed tears when I cry." Edgerly was a lawyer from Lynn, Massachusetts who founded a health club and soon after began to author the first of his several dozen self-help books (mostly under a pseudonym, Edmund Shaftsbury). He was the founder of the Ralstonism Movement, a late 19th and early 20th Century movement that stressed a healthy diet, questionable science, the use of personal magnetism to control others, sexual magnetism and related sexual eccentricity (each man should engage in a probationary marriage with someone the age of his grandmother), white supremacy rants, and various other quaint and/or questionable practices. One of his self-help books endorsed the consumption of whole grain cereals. William Danforth of Purina Mills, who manufactured a similar cereal, sought and received the endorsement of Edgerly for his cereals and renamed the company Ralston-Purina. Two almost unpublished manuscripts by the founder of the Ralstonism Movement. It is certainly likely that Edgerly also wrote the novel for his sister. The novel would benefit from further analysis or study.