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The Grey World by Evelyn Underhill (First Edition)
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The Grey World by Evelyn Underhill (First Edition)
Authors: Evelyn Underhill
Location: London
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1904. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and brown design. 320 pp. Author's first novel. The Grey World, described by one reviewer as an extremely interesting psychological study, the hero's mystical journey begins with death and then moves through reincarnation, beyond the grey world, and into the choice of a simple life devoted to beauty, reflecting Underhill's own serious perspective as a young woman. Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911
Book Condition: Good: A copy with moderate wear to bottom edges and spine edges; bumping to corners. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Mild foxing to prelims and to text block fore and bottom edges. No jacket present.
Notes: ISFDB: Heinemann (London) published one month before the Century Co. (New York).
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Authors: Evelyn Underhill
Location: London
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1904. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and brown design. 320 pp. Author's first novel. The Grey World, described by one reviewer as an extremely interesting psychological study, the hero's mystical journey begins with death and then moves through reincarnation, beyond the grey world, and into the choice of a simple life devoted to beauty, reflecting Underhill's own serious perspective as a young woman. Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911
Book Condition: Good: A copy with moderate wear to bottom edges and spine edges; bumping to corners. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Mild foxing to prelims and to text block fore and bottom edges. No jacket present.
Notes: ISFDB: Heinemann (London) published one month before the Century Co. (New York).
HCX23075-1