Item #60080 Strange Visitors: A Series of Original Papers, embracing Philosophy, Science, Government, Religion, Poetry, Art, Fiction, Satire, Humor, Narrative and Prophecy by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Bronte, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning and others Now Dwelling in the Spirit World, dictated through a Clairvoyant, while in an abnormal trance state. "A Clairvoyant", Henry J. Horn.
Strange Visitors: A Series of Original Papers, embracing Philosophy, Science, Government, Religion, Poetry, Art, Fiction, Satire, Humor, Narrative and Prophecy by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Bronte, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning and others Now Dwelling in the Spirit World, dictated through a Clairvoyant, while in an abnormal trance state.

Strange Visitors: A Series of Original Papers, embracing Philosophy, Science, Government, Religion, Poetry, Art, Fiction, Satire, Humor, Narrative and Prophecy by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Bronte, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning and others Now Dwelling in the Spirit World, dictated through a Clairvoyant, while in an abnormal trance state.

New York: Carleton Publisher, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 250pp. Green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, blind borders and device to upper board, beveled edges. A collection of writings "from the other side" attributed to various deceased authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Charlotte Bronte and other notables. All were supposedly "dictated" through the clairvoyant whilst she was in trance and then immediately written verbatim by the transcriber. Chafing and fraying to spine ends and corners, cloth rubbed with a few light spots, light damp mark to upper fore-edge of rear board, armorial bookplate, endpapers split at inner hinges - front hinge slightly loose but holding well, page edges darkened and dusty, pages unmarked. Overall a clean near VG copy. Item #60080

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