London: James Burns, 1876. Second Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. Small octavo .220pp. Original brown cloth illustrated and bordered in gilt on upper board, gilt titling to spine, sepia toned photo of author laid on opposite title page with floral border and facsimile author signature, all edges gilt, index. The reflections and... More

New York: Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. Stapled printed wrappers, B&w illustrations, appendices and references. Text is in English but the "summary" at rear are printed in English, French, German, Italian and in Spanish. Covers a bit rubbed and grubby overall, cover edges rubbed & darkened, Still... More

London: Lectures Universal Ltd. ND [1936 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. Red cloth with black lettering to spine and upper board, b&w frontis and illustrations. Charles Drayton Thomas (1867 - 1953) was a British Methodist minister and spiritualist who wrote and edited a number of books on the subject... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 464pp. White cloth spine over white papered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Notes, bibliography and index. From the publisher: "Across Victorian Britain, apparently reasonable people twisted into bizarre postures, called out in unknown languages, and placidly bore... More

London: Gaskell, Jones & Co. Itd, ND [ 1901 ]. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 32pp. Original printed stapled wrappers, adverts inside covers. A scarce "pocket sized" book filled with brief accounts of spiritualist phenomena. Contents include: Spiritualism in 1716; The Wesleys Annoyed; A Haunted House in Yorkshire; Warnings in... More

Aberford, Yorkshire: Privately published, ND ( Circa 1940s ). First Edition. Card covers. Small octavo. 40pp. Printed blue card covers lettered in black. The second of a series of 3 privately published volumes entitled "Rays of Light from Beyond" which offer the after death communication of a Colonel Gascoigne. The... More

London: Methuen and Co, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 68pp. Original gray paper covered stiff wrappers lettered in black and bordered in green. Two discourses in honour of Frederic W. H. Myers, "Conviction of Survival," and "In Memory of F.W.H. Myers" by Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (1851-1940), well known British... More

Boston, MA: Colby and Rich, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 238pp + ii pp "postscript". Original cloth with gilt title and rules to spine, Index, b&w illustrations. Epes Sargent (1813–1880) was an American author, poet and playwright. Sargent became involved in Spiritualism, hosting many séances, and philosophical discussions. Along with... More

London: J & A Churchill, 1920. First UK Edition. Softcover. Small Octavo. x + 260pp. Original printed wrappers, index. An unusual critique of Spiritualism from a Christian perspective. A printed notation opposite the title page indicates that "The publisher's profits from the sale of this book will be given to... More

London: Rider & Co. ND [ 1928 ]. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Small octavo. 126pp. Original blue boards lettered in black on spine. Includes a foreword by Sir Frank Benson and the following chapters: "My Early Attempts at Communicating with the Dead", "Three Aspects of Sight", "Intercommunication of Mind with... More

London: The Society for Psychical Research, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 54pp + ip advert. Blue wrappers lettered in darker blue on front cover. One of a series of pamphlets written at the request of the Society for Psychical Research in order to bring reliable information on the subject to... More

London: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 76pp + iv pp adverts. Beige wrappers lettered in black. An investigation of the self-styled mystic and prophet Joanna Southcott (1750 – 1814), the religious movement she founded and her sealed wooden box of prophecies. From the collection of... More

Edinburgh: Shepherd & Elliot, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xii + 250pp + i, 4pp adverts. Original red cloth decorated in blind, gilt title, etc. to spine. Appendix. The scarce first edition of this overview of the history and practice of mesmerism. From the collection of Dr. M. H.... More