ALL MEN ARE GHOSTS
London: Williams & Norgate, 1913. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-360 [note: first leaf is a blank], original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Story collection, "...while often identified as a Ghost-Story volume [this] is a continuation of this philosophy, where LPJ provides a rational basis for supernatural occurrences. The sequence "Panhandle and the Ghosts" postulates that humans and Ghosts live in Alternate Worlds, with each perceiving the other as ghosts. In the title story, "All Men Are Ghosts", LPJ uses the frame story of spirits meeting in Heaven to relate an Arabian Fantasy, "The Hole in the Waterskin", as an allegory to demonstrate the likelihood of reincarnation. "The Magic Formula" – later the title story of a revised selection of stories from earlier volumes, The Magic Formula and Other Stories (coll 1927 US) – is a Time Fantasy. LPJ's stories have novelty value for their concepts." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Jacks was a academic and philosopher who incorporated his ideas into his fiction, some of which is metaphysical. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 890. Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, p. 238. Bleiler (1978), p. 107. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Tanned strip to free end papers, lower right corner bumped, a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a thin strip (3 mm) wide missing from lower front front panel, tanning to spine panel. (25524). Item #25524
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