Help With an Elusive Rutherford Book?

by Teary Oberon 13 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Awen
    Awen

    Amazon has the whole book if you can't find a pdf.

    A complete listing of his other books can be found here.

  • Teary Oberon
    Teary Oberon

    $25 plus shipping for a soft cover, 128 page book? ouch...

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    It appears to be the same book, different edition. It first appeared in early 1920 (first references in the Golden Age and Watchtower are in March 1920), with the title "Talking With the Dead ? ? ?" and then by 1923 and 1924 this had been replaced with "Can the Living Talk With the Dead? ? ?" in references. My guess is that the original title wasn't all that clear; advertisements had to state "This book is not spiritistic propaganda", for one could assume from the title (especially if the question marks are omitted) that the book was about talking with the dead. So the later edition of the book phrased the title more clearly as a question.

  • Teary Oberon
    Teary Oberon

    Facinating.

    It would still be nice for a collector to have both editions though, just because of the cool little background history like that =P

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