There Is A River : Thomas Sugrue 1942 [ Edgar Cayce ]
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First Trade Edition of Only Biography of Edgar Cayce Written In His Lifetime There Is A River by Thomas Sugrue Published in 1942
Sugrue, Thomas. There Is A River The Story Of Edgar Cayce. Henry Holt and Company. New York 1942. First Edition, Second Printing, March 1943.
First edition, second printing of There Is A River by Thomas Sugrue, the book that helped make “The Sleeping Prophet” Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) into an international icon. The only biography of Cayce to be released in his lifetime, There Is A River, was a surprise success, growing membership in the early Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), Cayce’s still-extant group based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and bringing him into national prominence ahead of his death in 1945.
The author, Thomas Sugrue, originally contacted the Cayce family in the hope of debunking their claims of psychic communications and healings, only to become a convert, living with the family from 1939 to 1941 and conducting as many as 76 readings with Edgar Cayce while writing this book.
This first edition, second printing (technically the first trade edition) was the first to be released to the public following an initial run of 300 numbered copies signed by Cayce.
453pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Wear with some losses and soiling to edges. Wear with cloth losses to spine ends. Text block toned and worn. Pastedowns and endpapers toned. Edgar Cayce photo frontis. Theosophical Press of Wheaton, Ill. Booksellers’ ticket to title page. Pages toned but clean. Good. Original dust jacket, soiled, with wear to edges and folds. Wear and creasing to front top edge. Wear with creasing and losses top spine, back wrap top edge, as well as top fore corners. Foxing to flaps. Original price crossed out in pencil. Good.
If you liked this book, you might also enjoy this unusual guide to the I-Ching hexagrams matched to readings from Edgar Cayce by members of the ARE. You might also enjoy this signed second edition of Walter Russell’s Book of Early Whisperings.
