Item #49746 Psychic Science: Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science ( later International Institute for Psychic Investigation ) - Vols. I - XIX ( 19 volumes ). BRITISH COLLEGE OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE, Stanley de Brath James Hewat McKenzie, Mrs. Hewat McKenzie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Contributors include: Bernard Bromage, Cesar de Vesme, Charles L. Tweedale, Mrs. St Clair Stobart, Cyril Scott, Harry Price, Sir Oliver Lodge, Nandor Fodor, Violet Firth, F. Bligh Bond, Dion Fortune.

Psychic Science: Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science ( later International Institute for Psychic Investigation ) - Vols. I - XIX ( 19 volumes ).

London: British College of Psychic Science / International Institute for Psychic Investigation, 1922-1941. First Editions. Hardcovers. Octavos. Nineteen volumes. Original publisher's red pebbled cloth lettered in gilt on spines, except for Vol.XIX which is blue cloth. B/w plates & illustrations. A run of the first nineteen annual volumes of the quarterly transactions of the British College of Psychic Science; the last two volumes have the organization renamed as the International Institute for Psychic Investigation. A genuinely rare and important journal, the more so as many of the contributors were themselves practitioners and believers, it was edited by James Hewat McKenzie (1870-1929) the founder of The British College of Psychic Science.. Each of the volumes comprises four issues. To give a sense of some of the authors and subjects, what follows is a list of the essays in the first four issues (ie Volume I) ONLY. "Automatic Script: A Passage Quoted", "Mediumship of Ada Bennett" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "Mediumship of Mrs. Deane" (Photography); "Mystery of the Fox Sisters" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; "Glastonbury Discoveries: A New Chapter" by F. Bligh Bond; "The Goligher Circle" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "Wax Moulds from Materialized Hands" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "The Science of Metapsychics: Professor Richet on Supernormal Phenomena" by Stanley de Brath; "'Mittel Europa': Notes on a Journey" by Barbara McKenzie; "Science of the Ouija Board" by Hester Travers Smith; "Poltergeist: An Authentic Case" by Commander Koglenik; "Poltergeist Phenomena at the British College" by Barbara McKenzie; "Mediumship of Evan Powell" by H. W. Pugh; "Psychic Photography" by Major R. E. E. Spencer; "Fraud Charges in Psychic Photography" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "Psychic Photography: A New Line of Research" by F. Bligh Bond; "The 'Price-Hope' Case" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "The Value and Meaning of Psychical Research" by Stanley de Brath; "Psychology and Occultism" by Violet Firth [Dion Fortune]; "A Case of Psychometry" by the Editor; "Mediumship of Frau Silbert" by J. Hewat McKenzie; "Sonnets" by L. F. Wynne Ffoulkes; "A Case of Spontaneous Mediumship" by E. W. Duxbury; "Telergy or Bilocation" by Alain Raffin; "General Laws of Trance Communication" by C. Drayton Thomas; "Two Relativities" by Stanley de Brath. In addition to the essays, most issues include College Information, Editorial Notes, Book Reviews, Notes, Letters, and either a Table of Contents or an Index. Some of the better known contributors include Bernard Bromage, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (4 essays 1 preface and 1 letter), F. Bligh Bond (various essays), Violet Firth [Dion Fortune], Nandor Fodor, Sir Oliver Lodge, Harry Price, Cyril Scott, Mrs. St Clair Stobart, Charles L. Tweedale, and Cesar de Vesme. SOME of the Mediums whose work is reviewed throughout the series include: Mediums include: Lilian Bailey, Mrs. Barker, Ada Bessinet, Annie Brittain, Mrs. Blanche Cooper, Mina "Margery" Crandon, Stella Cranshaw, "the Crewe Circle," Geraldine Cummins, Mrs. John H. Curran, Ada Emma Deane, Hester Dowden (Hester Travers Smith), Mrs. R. W. Dundas, Mrs Thomas Everitt, Miss Francis, Franek Kluski, Kathleen Goligher, Bertah Harris, Edward Irving, Ingeborg Kober, Guy L'Estrange, Hilda Lewis ("the flower medium"), Mrs. Murphy Lydy, T. Lynn, Mrs. E. Mason, Mme. Max-Getting, Heinrich Melzer, Mollie Perriman, Evan Powell, Marquis Centurione Scotto, Willy Schneider, Maria Silbert, John Sloan, George Valiantine, Ruth Vaughan, Margaret Vickers, Jack Webber, and Estelle White. Finally SOME of the subjects covered are: Ancient Egypt, Apports, Astral Body, Auras, Automatic Writing, Channeled Art, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Curses, Devil Root, Direct Voice, Divining, the Doris Case, Dreams, Ectoplasm, Eyeless Sight, Fake Photographs, Fire Walking, Fraudulent Mediumship, Ghosts, Glastonbury, Hauntings, Healing, Hypnotic Control, Katie King Manifestations, Levitation, Materialization Phenomena, Metagnosis, Norway,the Oscar Wilde Script; Ouija Boards; Planchettes, Poltergeists, Prophecy, Psychic Healing; Psychic Painting, Psychic Photography; Psychical Research, Psychometry; Scripts of Cleophas, Seances, Slate Writing, Stigmata, Table Moving, Talking Animals, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Teleplasmic Phenomena, Tibet, Trance Communication; Voice Mediumship. The volumes are quite generously illustrated with plates (on photographic paper) showing mediums at work, spirit photography ("real" and fake), portraits of mediums, etc. etc. The run comprises: Vol.I (April 1922-Jan.1923): 406pp.; Vol.II (April 1923-Jan.1924): 360pp.; Vol.III (April 1925-Jan.1925): 320pp.; Vol.IV (April 1925-Jan.1926): 324pp.; Vol.V (April 1926-Jan.1927): 328pp.; Vol.VI (April 1927-Jan.1928): 314pp. + viii [Index to Vol.VI]: Vol.VII (April 1928-Jan.1929): 350pp.; Vol.VIII (April 1929-Jan.1930): viii + 316pp.; Vol.IX (April 1930-Jan.1931): viii + 310pp.; Vol.X (April 1931-Jan.1932): viii + 320pp.; Vol.XI (April 1932-Jan.1933): viii + 334pp.; Vol.XII (April 1933-Jan.1934): viii + 320pp.; Vol.XIII (April 1934- Jan.1935): viii + 332pp.; Vol.XIV (April 1935-Jan.1936): xii + 314pp.; Vol.XV (April 1936-Jan.1937): vi + 358pp.; Vol.XVI (April 1937-Jan.1938): vi + 248pp.; Vol.XVII (April 1938-Jan.1939): iv + 224pp.; Vol.XVIII (April 1939-Jan.1940): iv + 206pp.; Vol.XIX (April 1940-Jan.1941): iv + 160pp. Wrappers not bound in. Light wear to cloth, page-edges flecked, previous owner's names on front free endpapers of some volumes, some foxing to endpapers in some volumes, but generally each copy is solid & internally clean & bright. A VG+ run of this rare and important journal (no dust jackets issued). Item #49746

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