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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Madame Blavatsky by G. Baseden Butt, published in 1926 by the David McKay Company, Philadelphia. An early biographical and critical study of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society and one of the most influential figures in the development of modern Western occultism and Theosophy. Butt examines Blavatsky's childhood and early travels, psychic development, the founding of the Theosophical Society, her years in India and London, the Coulomb controversy and Society for Psychical Research investigation, and the arguments both for and against the authenticity of her reported phenomena. Separate chapters examine the Mahatmas and Mahatma Letters, mysterious rappings and astral bells, precipitated writings and pictures, materialization and duplication phenomena, Blavatsky's writings, and her personal character. Hardcover in the uncommon original pictorial dust jacket featuring a photographic portrait of Blavatsky. Jacket shows age toning, rubbing, and chipping with loss along the edges and spine ends; hardcover remains attractive. An uncommon early study of Blavatsky.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xi, 268, [6]. Publisher's red buckram lettered in black at spine. Black and white photographic frontispiece. This is the second edition, first edition published in 1926. Good/fair. Dusty top edge, foxed along foredge, title page and prelims, and very occasionally throughout. Slightly faded at spine, boards rubbed and lightly marked. …