G. K. CHESTERTON: 1925 Autograph Letter Signed & "Superstitions of the Sceptic" - $1,500 - (Haledon, NJ)

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Offered here are the following two related G. K. Chesterton items: 1. G. K. Chesterton ALS: A very fine, and very attractive and displayable autograph letter signed, written by Chesterton, circa 1925, at his home, Top Meadow, in Beaconsfield, just outside of London. 2. The Superstitions of the Skeptic, by G. K. Chesterton, With a Correspondence between the Author and Mr. G. G. Coulton: This small book, which is extremely rare and hard to find, is the product of the ALS described above. It begins with a verbatim transcription of a lecture that Chesterton gave at Cambridge in 1925 and is followed by several pages of correspondence between Chesterton and G. G. Coulton, a professor of medieval history, which was originally published as letters to the editor in the Cambridge Review. The book is in very good condition, in its original paper wrappers. The front cover has a 1 1/2 inch split at the bottom and there is a tiny loss to the bottom of the spine. Internally the book is fine. In 1925, Chesterton delivered a lecture at Cambridge University entitled "The Superstitions of the Skeptic". In that lecture he argued that when skeptics break away from a religious and social system, what happens is not freedom, but just the opposite: constraint and servitude. G. G. Coulton, a renowned professor of medieval history, reacted to and challenged the thesis of that lecture with a letter to the editor published in the Cambridge Review. That triggered a reply from Chesterton and a rejoinder from Coulton which also appeared in that publication. Following all of this, the Cambridge I.D.K. Club (I.D.K. stands for "I Don't Know") arranged with Chesterton for the publication of his lecture and subsequent published exchanges with G. G. Coulton, in what was to appear as Number 1 of the series of I.D.K. Booklets. That booklet is offered with this collection. In the ALS offered here, Chesterton is writing to Austin H. Johnson, the general edi…

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