SUGGESTION AND AUTO-SUGGESTION, by WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON. Atkinson was a noted American Mentalist, Occultist, Hypnotist, Theosophist, and Yogi. He wrote under his own name and under many pseudonyms.

Published by The Progress Company, Chicago, 1909. First edition, with the date 1909 on the title page and copyright page, with no statement of additional printings. (The title page also has the imprint of "L. N. Fowler & Company / England", which was the book's distributor in England.)

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards, gilt titles on front cover and spine, 5.5x7.5 inches, 217 pages.

VERY GOOD condition, covers have slight edge toning, a few small light spots, and a touch of corner tip and spine end wear; overall the covers are quite nice, solid with bright gilt; internally, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, there is a small previous owner's initials and date at the bottom gutter edge of the front free endpaper, there is an ink stamp below the Publisher's imprint at the bottom of the title page "From / The Sholar Service / Boston", likely the book's distributor; otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, very presentable copy.

Scarce 1909 first edition. I auto-suggest you buy this now.

About WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (from Wikipedia and other Internet sources):

******American Swami and founder of the Yogi Publication Society, William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific and highly influential Occultist and New Thought author. He published the New Thought magazines Suggestion, New Thought and Advanced Thought. The New Thought movement in America evolved from Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science teachings, and embraced a wide array of teachings relating to the creative power of thought (particularly with regard to mental healing), a universalistic embrace of different religious traditions, and self-affirmative psychology. Atkinson wrote under a wide variety of pseudonyms and personas, such as Theron Q. Dumont, Theodore Sheldon, Magus Incognito, Swami Panchadasi, Swami Bhakta Vishita, and Yogi Ramacharaka. Ramacharaka’s first book, Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism (1903) proved to be popular, and was quickly followed by Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism, The Hindu Yogi Science of Breath, and Hatha Yoga. Atkinson’s Ramacharaka writings show a strong influence from the work of Swami Vivekananda as well as Theosophical themes. Ramacharaka created a new, western oriented approach to yoga which emerged from the intersection of the rise in physical culture, self-help, mental hygiene, mental powers, New Thought, Theosophy, and self-affirmations.******