Mind Reader by Phillips, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1898) Green cloth border in line of red with lettering in silver on front and spine; 312pp + ads. Fantasy novel; a secret, ancient mystic order, clairvoyance, occult elements. Bleiler II, p.158. Spine sunned with edges and corners of cloth a little dingy; small star-stamp on front pastedown; minor soiling pps4 & 5 with tiny tear at top edge of p.4. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Phillips, L. M. The Mind Reader. London, New York: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, [1898]. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-312 [313-320: ads]. Original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and silver. (Another binding exists in Neely's "bulls-eye/flag" design, priority, if any, unknown.) Two contemporary ownership signatures on front free endpaper. Light soiling to rear cover including a faint damp stain near bottom edge, a small ding to fore-edge of front cover, otherwise a clean, well-bound, very good copy. #133. $250. A better than average example of off-trail American fiction, blending adventure, criminous high-jinks and varied settings around a love story, adding a generous amount of occult mumbo-jumbo. The novel is eccentric, to be sure, but the writing is more skillful than in most such efforts. The settings move mainly between the upper-middle-class world of upstate New York and the wild west of a silver mine in Nevada. This is a page-turning sensation novel that delivers unexpected plot twists, dynamic characterizations, and innovative occult fireworks. Reginald 11469. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1305.