‘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. 8vo 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; 104pp, paper is quite thick for the pages of a book. There is an inscription on the inside from page by what looks like ‘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 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 book has some slight browning on the inside front and back end papers o/w is in good condition. I believe this to be quite a scarce book as at the time of writing this I wasn’t able to find a copy for sale; I Googled the title and author but no site was noted with an available copy. There is quite a long article on Wikipedia about the author which is very interesting.