Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 508pp. Modern brown cloth with gilt-lettering and rules to spine. B/w frontisportrait. B/w illustrations. Index. An account of the seances of medium William W. Aber and the Psychic Society known as the Aber Intellectual Circle, including the minutes, descriptions and..... More

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 300pp. Original brown pebbled cloth decorated in blind on upper board, lettered on spine. Elizabeth Squirrell (1838 - ?) became a "natural" spiritualist medium after a severe illness as a teenager left her physically incapacitated. While some believed her state..... More

London: Trubner & Co., 1875. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. viii + 120pp. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine. The author uses the Bible to establish the possibility of spiritualism. T. J. Carty ("A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language") identifies the author as John Delaware Lewis (1828..... More

London: Methuen and Co., 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. iv + 124pp + 8pp publisher's catalogue. Orange cloth with borders in blind to upper board, black lettering to spine. The second edition of this work described as "a temperate answer to the usual arguments against spiritualism", by psychologist Robert..... More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1925. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 674pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index. In the 'International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method' series. A study by Charlie Dunbar Broad (1887 – 1971), the English epistemologist, philosopher and historian who..... More

London: The Annals of Psychical Science, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 52pp. Grey papered boards with printed title to front board. B/w vignettes. The author, Hereward Carrington (1880-1958), was one of the best-known of the British psychical researchers, and wrote many significant works on the subjects of psychical research..... More

Boston, MA: William White, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 322pp. +iipp. adverts.Brown cloth lettered and embellished in gilt on spine, decorated in blind on upper board. B/w frontisportrait. The first edition of the biography of Portsmouth New Hampshire native J. H. Conant, aka Frances Ann Conant (1831-1875), an American spiritualist..... More

London: Evans Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 234pp. Black textured papered boards lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. & plates.The author makes a full inquiry into the "miracle" cures at Lourdes. From the jacket: "Some of the most famous cases of cures at Lourdes are described in this..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Austin Publishing Co., 1922. Fourth edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 80pp. Original brown wrappers printed in black. B/w illustrations. Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) was renowned as one of the great physicists of his time. In 1869 he was introduced to 'psychic phenomena' in a sitting with a medium..... More

London: John M. Watkins, ND (1912?). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small octavo. 50pp. Original printed soft paper wrappers. The author, Helen Alex Dallas, was a Spiritualist and Honorary Associate of the Society for Psychical Research. This is the text of an address given to The Quest Society in January 1911..... More

Boston: Colby & Rich, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 290pp + 8pp catalogue. Original black cloth w/ gilt title, etc, to spine, and blind rules to covers; b&w illustrations, appendix. Andrew Jackson Davis (1826 - 1910), was a renowned American spiritualist and prophet, who was immensely influential in the history..... More

Lincoln Nebraska: University of Nebraska Books/ Bison Books, 2006. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Octavo. xxiv + 196pp. A new edition with an introduction by John M. Lynch of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous (some would say famously-credulous) study of fairies and fairy lore, with a particular emphasis on the Cottingley..... More