‘The Machinery Of The Mind’ ~ by Violet M. Firth - 1890-1946; pub by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1st Edition reprint 1922. This was the only book that Violet Firth wrote before changing her name to Dion Fortune and becoming very famous. Book is with original dust jacket; boards are light blue with a cream coloured cloth spine and paper labels on the front cover and spine noting the title/author; 8vo, 104pp, paper is quite thick for the pages of a book. There is an inscription on the inside front page of ‘W Howitt Gamble 1925’. NB…the jacket is quite a thin paper and in very poor condition, maybe due to becoming parched in the sun? It was almost crumbling around the spine area when I unpacked the book so I needed to ‘patch it up’ with sellotape on the inside of the jacket to stop it finally disintegrating as it was falling apart; not something that I would normally do but now it does resemble a dust jacket - but needs very careful handling; the cover boards have some marks and there is a fading of the light blue colour around the edges of the covers; the book has some slight browning on the inside front and back end papers; it is tight in the binding with no lose pps; o/w book is in good condition. This is a very scarce book and at the time of writing this description I wasn’t able to find another copy for sale on Google et al at all. There is quite a long article on Wikipedia about the author which is very interesting.