Baird T. Spalding As I Knew Him by David Bruton

Baird T. Spalding ...As I Knew Him

by  David Bruton

2nd Edition, Revised, 1980

Softcover, 123 pages

Front cover has a deep scratch. There is a piece of white sticky tape holding the bottom corner of the spine - please see images.

Book shop sticker on the first page and previous owner's signature. A yellow discolored-line acros the back cover.

Inside front cover the glue is slightly exposed, but the binding is solid, clean, bright pages.

A scarce antiquarian book

Baird Thomas Spalding (18721953) was an American spiritual writer, author of the spiritual book series: Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

Spalding did briefly visit India in 1935 as there is a US passport application dated 1935, and a Seattle immigration record on his return from India, dated 1936. A biography of Spalding, Baird T Spalding As I Knew Him was published by fellow mystic and DeVorss author David Bruton in 1954. About Spalding's claims regarding his birthplace, Bruton wrote:

On two different occasions I asked him where he was born. The first time he told me in 'upstate New York;' the second, 'Spalding, England.' During one of his last public lectures a member of the audience asked where he was born and he answered, 'In India.' He spoke with equal affection for the 'old family home' in upstate New York, in Spalding, England and in Coconada, Madras Province, India.

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