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 ofW Howitt Gamble 1925. NBthe 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 topatch it upwith 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 i