Grimston Robert (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 284 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

In-house publication. Small 4to., b&w authorial frontis portrait, 207pp., colophon with printed Chicago chapter label, facsimile author signature, diagrams, swastika headpieces, perfect bound into the original decorative stiff paper wrappers in two shades of green with a spiral on the upper wrapper and swastika on the lower. N.p., [Chicago], The Process Church of The Final Judgement, Garden City Press, c. 1970 £450.00Wrappers a bit worn and creased a very good copy. Very rare, in commerce and scarce institutionally with a handful of copes on Worldcat; one of which is the former LSD Library copy now in Harvard University Library. Not in Coumont. Illustrated in ?Apocalypse Culture' p-165. The Process Church of The Final Judgement was a new religious movement with roots in Scientology that sort of embraced the worship of Satan (and Jehovah and Jesus). There was no commercial or second edition of 'Exit', and although the author granted publishing permission for this compilation of eight inner circle Brethren Information tracts; it is thought that De Grimston later recanted and had the majority of the run destroyed. Thus, making it quite hard to find. R.N. Taylor, in his early account of The Process described the book as '.a compilation of epistles written between December 1968 and April 1970, was an eight inch square book meant for Processians only ' (-The Process: a Personal Reminiscence, p-185 in Apocalypse Culture) .

First edition, an in-house publication. Small 4to., b&w authorial frontispiece portrait, 207pp., colophon, facsimile author signature, diagrams, swastika headpieces, perfect bound into the original decorative stiff paper wrappers in two shades of green with a spiral on the upper wrapper and the swastika like emblem on the lower. N.p., [Chicago], The Process Church of The Final Judgement, Garden City Press, c. 1970. £475.00 A crisp copy though the spine has a crease and the laminate is starting, worn wrapper tips and edges. Uncommon in commerce and scarce institutionally with a handful of copies on Worldcat; one of which is the former LSD Library copy now in Harvard University Library. Not in Coumont. Illustrated p-165 ?Apocalypse Culture'. Papa p-50. Papa describes ?Exit' as 'An important book bringing together various writings originally conceived for inner disciples only'. The Process Church of The Final Judgement was a new religious movement with roots in Scientology that sort of embraced the worship of Satan (and Jehovah and Jesus). There was no commercial or second edition of 'Exit', and although the author granted publishing permission for this compilation of eight inner circle Brethren Information tracts; it is thought that De Grimston later recanted and had the majority of the run destroyed. Thus, making it quite hard to find. R.N. Taylor, in his account of The Process, described the book as '.a compilation of epistles written between December 1968 and April 1970, was an eight inch square book meant for Processians only ' (-The Process: a Personal Reminiscence, p-185 in Apocalypse Culture) . On view in Blue Mountain School.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 356 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: Very Good. Grimston, Robert (1816-84). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. London, December 9, 1863. 1 page, plus integral blank. 202 x 128 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Robert Grimston, a famous cricket player, joined the board of the Electric Telegraph Company in 1852, and became chairman of the International Telegraph Company in 1859. (The two companies subsequently merged, becoming the Electric and International Telegraph Company.) In 1867 Grimston joined the board of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and in 1868 he was appointed chairman of the Indo-European Telegraph Company. These companies were all taken over by the British government under the parliamentary acts of 1868 to 1870 transferring control of British telegraph lines to the Post Office. Latimer Clark joined the Electric Telegraph Company in 1850 as an engineer, remaining with the company until its annexation by the British government. During his years with the Electric Telegraph Company, Clark performed a series of experiments on the flow of electricity through wires. One of his most significant discoveries, made in 1853, was that the rate of current flow through a conducting wire is independent of the force used to generate the current. This fact was ignored by the designer of the first Atlantic cable, E. O. Wildman Whitehouse, whose insistence on using high voltages for transmitting messages contributed materially to the cable's failure in 1858. Upon the completion of the second Atlantic cable in 1866, Clark successfully demonstrated that it was possible to transmit messages over the cable using "a single galvanic cell composed of a few drops of acid in a silver thimble and a fragment of zinc weighing a grain or two" (quoted in Weaver 1909, 21). Grimston's letter to Clark, written on the stationery of the Electric and International Telegraph Company, informs him that "the Board of Directors having appointed Mr. Henry Weaver to be Secretary of this Company from the 1st January 1864 you will be pleased to address all communications to him from that date." Origins of Cyberspace 152. .

First edition, an in-house publication. Oblong 8vo., photo-frontispiece, 2ll., pp-7-89, colophon, perfect bound into the original stiff white card, laminate wrapper with titles on the upper portion and swastika like symbol on the lower in gold, signed in blue ink on the frontispiece. Chicago, The Process Church of The Final Judgement, Chicago Chapter, Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd., London and Colchester, n.d., c. 1970. £500.00 A bit tired, a vertical crease on lower wrapper, backstrip starting and a trifle rubbed. Rare in commerce and institutions with a handful of real copies on Worldcat, all in North America with two of them in Divinity Schools. Papa 59. The inscription on the frontispiece portrait of De Grimston reads: 'Mountain & Sunshine'. If correct, this is an interesting association copy as Hugh (later Michael) Mountain, also known as Father Aaron, was a church leader. A handbook by De Grimston on Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan with the latter especially helping the neophyte see through the 'drugged miasma' of recreational substances. On view in Blue Mountain School.