The Dream Child

Boston: Arena Publishing Co, 1892. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 229pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth over boards with lettering in gilt on the backstrip and front board. With preface to second edition. The extremities are moderately bumped, rubbed, and soiled. There is a small loss from the fore-edge margin of one of the publisher's advertisement leaves at the rear. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Bleiler Checklist. Reginald 07637. A spiritualist fantasy and a study of occult phenomena. Each night the main character, Mrs. Varien, becomes entranced and journeys to the spirit land.