Glasgow: John Calder & Co., 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 76pp. Original blue card covers, with printed title label on upper board and spine. This copy inscribed on the front blank "Emily - with grateful thanks from the Writer, Mrs. Frazer." - Mrs. Frazer presumably is Courtnay, the earthly... More
Manchester UK: The Two Worlds Publishing Company Ltd., 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 60pp + iipp. Original staple bound wrappers, covers bordered and lettered in black, index. Adverts on inside covers. From the preface: "My principal object in publishing this book is to place on record my solemn assurance... More
London: Psychic Book Club, 1946. "Special Edition" [ First Edition ]. Softcover. Small octavo. 108pp. Original beige wrappers lettered in dark blue on upper cover and spine. Upton's purpose in writing this book is to "present a record for survival of the human personality provided by this one remarkable medium... More
London: Smart and Allen, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound periodical. viii+ 568pp. Orginal blue cloth decorated in blind on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Index at front. B&w illustrations. A bound edition of twelve issues of this scarce periodical edited by Dr. George Sexton, a secularist and free-thinker..... More
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 92pp. Original black pebbled cloth illustrated in blind and lettered in gilt on spine. A scarce anti-spiritualist work in which the author suggests that spiritualists are worshippers of the dead (necromancers) and warns of the dangers of the practice. From... More
London: Rider & Co., ND (1933). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 160pp. Original blue cloth wtih gilt lettering to spine. B&w photographs of West Twisted Rectory and the interior of West Twisted Church. A record of the experimental efforts made in 1926 by V. G. Duncan, Rector of West Tisted Church... More
London: L. N. Fowler & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 128pp (ii adverts). Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. Volume one of three published separately, in which Harte examines the history of hypnotism, mesmerism and animal magnetism. This volume focuses on the... More
London: Psychic Press, Ltd., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 160pp + viii photo insert. Red cloth with black titling to spine; appendices, b&w frontis and illustrations. Though complete in itself, Margaret Lillian Hamilton (1917 - 2005 ) described this volume as a continuation of an earlier work by her father... More
London: Rider, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. viii + 132pp. + 4pp. ads. Original green cloth lettered in red on spine & front board. Bibliography. Hunt wrote a number of psychological and other works, including "Spiritualism for the Enquirer", "The Influence of Thought", "Why We Survive. Chapters on the... More
Manchester, UK: Neptune Books, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 35pp + vi adverts. Blue stapled card covers lettered in black on upper cover. The author promises to introduce us to our own "personal spirit team using the great mana power" which is the life force all around you, and offers... More
London: London Spiritualist Alliance, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. Booklet. 12pp. Beige stapled textured card covers lettered in brown on upper cover. Written by the Secretary of the London Spiritualist Alliance to offer a brief account of the organization and its purpose. From the collection of Dr. M. H.... More
Boston: William White & Company, 1869. Thirty-first Edition. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. xxii (ii) + 786pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. portrait. Andrew Jackson Davis (1826 - 1910), was a renowned American spiritualist and prophet, who was immensely influential in the history of Spiritualism, particularly... More
Glasgow: William Collins Sons, ND ( 1920 ). First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxviii+ 328pp + xiipp plates + 3pp adverts. Original blue cloth w/ gilt title, etc, to spine, b&w illustrations. The first translation into English of this work by Gustave Geley (1865-1924), medical doctor, psychical researcher and Director... More
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First US Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xvi + 402 pp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, publishers device in blind to front board. 51 pages of b&w plates with a total of 105 photographs and diagrams. Index. The first US... More
London: George Redway, 1896. "Fourth Edition" Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 254pp. Original navy blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, blind rules, index. An early work on hypnotism, mesmerism and suggestion which commences with a chapter on the first effects of mesmerism and concludes with notes on the curative... More
London: John M. Watkins, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 128pp. Original bright blue cloth, with gilt titling to spine, frontis portrait of St. Francis of Assisi by Ludovico Cardi. A study of Saints, looking at the miracles and such like attributed to them, in the light of Spiritualist thought... More
Kent, UK / London: "You and I" [Magazine], W. Partridge & Co., 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 56pp. + xpp adverts. Original printed wrappers. A scarce Christian themed anti-Spiritualism pamphlet. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, although not marked as such. Light rubbing and creasing to cover... More
London: Psychic Review Ltd., 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 120pp. Original printed wrappers, appendix. A meditation on "the hereafter" - as understood by various religions and philosophies, by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857–1942) aka Mrs. Rhys Davids, who was best known as an editor, translator, and interpreter of Buddhist... More
London: William Rider & Son, Ltd., 1923. Second Edition. Hardcover, Octavo, xxxii + 424 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Blind stamp title and rules to upper board. Frontis and bibliography. The second edition of A. E. Waite's anthology of the writings of Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) the... More
New York: Macoy Publishing Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 114pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to front board. A work on reincarnation which the author describes as having received "inspirationally" from an entity named Sano Tarot, a "god or creative center of the primal Force, Inspiration." Spine of volume... More
NP [ Durban, UK ]: Privately published [ Knox Printing Co ], ND [ Circa 1960 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xviii + 112pp + iv. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board. "A verbatim record of the teachings of a Spirit Guide named Luke, taken... More
London: Rider, ND [ 1949 ]. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 272pp. Beige cloth with blue title, etc, to spine, frontis, 7 half-tone plates. Frederick Marion was the stage name of Josef Kraus, a well-known theatrical performer clairvoyance, telepathy and other 'psychic feats,' during the 1930s & 1940s. Despite his... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 294pp. Purple cloth lettered in gilt on spine, bibliography. Henry Habberley Price, (1899 – 1984), better known as H. H. Price, was a Welsh philosopher, who was a a professor of Logic at Oxford University from 1935-1959. Although... More
London: Printed by W. O. [William Onley] for Sam. Briscoe, 1699. (Second Edition). Hardcover. Small octavo. [xiv] + 146pp. + (iipp. - advertisements). Late twentieth century half-brown calf, over marbled paper boards, by renowned London book-binder, Bernard C. Middleton. Gilt stamped leather title-label & blind-stamped rules and decorations on spine... More
London: J. Hatchard & Co., 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Slim octavo. 78pp. (+ iipp. advert & blank). Pamphlet. Rebound in mid-twentieth century quarter cloth. Plain grey papered boards with printed title-label on front board, yellow pebbled cloth spine lettered in gilt. For a short time from 1830 onwards a part... More
