The catalogue comprises the usual mix of books, journals and pamphlets, on Spiritualism, Psychical Research, and related aspects of occultism. It includes too many scarce titles to list in a small space, but amongst these are a rare early work on the planchette.
New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1870. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. 45pp + iiipp adverts. Contemporary pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to upper board A serious study of the theory and practice of the planchette (a small board, typically heart-shaped, which was fitted with a vertical pencil and wheels..... More
Southampton, MA: Josiah A. Gridley, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 288pp. Original cloth decorated in blind on upper board, lettered & decorated in gilt on spine. Tipped-in fold-out color plate. An account of a series of spiritual communications (knocking, raps, table moving etc.) that occurred in the house of..... More
Keighley, England: D. W. Weatherhead, 1856, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. iv + 168pp. Original rinted wrappers. Contains Volume III, No.1 (Nov.1856) - Volume III, No. 12 (Feb. 1857). Twelve issues of this important but very scarce and fragile periodical on the subject of spiritualism. Includes letters from readers, various..... More
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 56pp. booklet Late 20th century binding: blue paper covered boards with black and white printed title label to upper board. The scarce first publication of an anonymously penned letter to the Rev. T. P. Foley "upon the subject of his..... More
London: Churchman Publishing Co. Ltd., ND ( 1931 ). First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 94pp + iipp advert. Illustrated wrappers lettered and bordered in red. A collection of stories relating the paranormal capabilities of dogs, with a lengthy Foreword by noted ghost finder, Harry Price. Advertisements for the R.S.P.C.A. [..... More
London: G. M. Nash & H. G. Callaway, 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 48pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Glossary. Black and Fox act as mediums receiving the voice of Azelda, "Melsona of Haromon" who dictates the "Golden Book of Life". Oliver Fox [aka Hugh George Callaway] (1885-1949), was an English..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xlvi + 204pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontisportrait. Sir William Fletcher Barrett (1844 -1925) was an English physicist and spiritualist, who published a number of books on psychical research and related subjects during his lifetime..... 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: Watts & Co., 1920. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Included is 4.5" x 7.25" publisher's printed prospectus for this volume. Beadnell's attack on "The Reality of Psychic Phenomena: Raps, Levitations, etc." by W. J. Crawford (188? -1920) a lecturer in mechanical engineering in Queens University..... More
London: William Rider & Son, ND [1908]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 64pp. + 20pp. ads. Original olive cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lettered in white on front board. B/w plates. The author was a stalwart of the The Society Of Psychical Research, and was the Assistant Secretary from 1882-1902..... More
London: William Rider & Son, ND [1904]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 66pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lettered in white on front board, b&w illustrations. The author was a stalwart of the The Society of Psychical Research, and was the Assistant Secretary from 1882-1902. He participated in..... More
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
London: Society for Psychical Research, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Eccentrically paginated: Approx. 630pages. Part 104 - December, 1927: viii + 368pp; Part 108. Library Catalogue (Supplement 1927-1928): 103- 208p; Part 113. Library Catalogue (Supplement 1928-1929) 196-246pp; Part 120. Library Catalogue (Supplement 1929-1930); 58pp.; Part 133. Library Catalogue (Supplement 1931-1933)..... More
London: Heinemann (on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research), 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 272pp.+ xvi page b&w photo insert at center. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bibliography & index. An Investigation of Out-of-the-Body Experiences published on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research. The..... More
London: Psychic Press, 1933. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Booklet. 32pp. Original printed wrappers; this copy has had its spine professionally reinforced with a more recent complimentary backstrip. B/w illustrations. One fold-out plate: "Chart Showing the Known Range of Electro-magnetic Vibrations". Reprinted from the series "University of Spiritualism" in the "Psychic..... More
London: Psychic Press, ND (circa 1934). First Edition. Softcover. Booklet. 54pp. Original printed wrappers; this copy has had its spine professionally reinforced with a more recent complimentary backstrip. Reprinted from the series "University of Spiritualism" in the "Psychic News" but complete in itself and a part of Boddington's course of..... More
London: The Light, ND (1921). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small octavo. 8pp. + adverts rear inside cover. Pink wrappers lettered in black. A short essay offprinted from the magazine "Light. A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research". From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal..... More
Leeds, England: Printed by Inchbold and Gawtress, and sold by A. Cumming, at his periodical warehouse, in Briggate. [1815]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 76pp. Rebound in modern paper-covered boards (grey spine, cream boards with title-label on front board). B/w frontis. A rare early biographical study of the former domestic..... More
London: Rider & Co., ND [1930]. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 400pp. Original red cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. B/w frontis & plates. Index. Fold-out table. Hereward Carrington (1880-1958), was one of the best-known of the British psychical researchers, and wrote many significant works on the subjects of..... More
Cheltenham: Norman, Sawyer & Co., 1884-1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 300pp. + 16pp. Society rules & books. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Several b/w illustrations. Contents include the Society Rules, list of members and a list of books housed in their library, the President's address and..... More
London: Heywood & Co., 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. [iv] + 219pp.+ 1pp advert. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, with gilt title on front board. Written mainly to convey his experiences with American magicians / mediums, Ira Erastus Davenport (1839 – 1911) and William Henry Davenport (1841 –..... More
NP [ United Kingdom ]: Privately published, ND [ 1910 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 80pp. Original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, b&w diagram. The author self-published this volume in which he recounts his personal experience with spirit contact. He later went on to write "Spiritual Science..... More
London: Edwin Arnold, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 160pp. Light brown cloth with black lettering to spine and upper board. Millais Culpin (1874 - 1952) was an English physician and psychotherapist who wrote a number of books exploring connections between psychology and spiritualism, this volume being his first..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 334pp. + 2pp. ads. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w illustrations. Index. Edmund Edward Fournier d'Albe (1868 - 1933 ) was an Irish physicist, astrophysicist and chemist with an interest in immortality, parapsychology and spiritualism..... More
London: John Murray, 1925. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. xvi + 233pp + viii adverts. Original light blue cloth with silver ruled borders, and silver titling and device to upper cover and spine, b&w frontis of Joan of Arc, b&w illustrations. In his message from the translator, Arthur Conan Doyle..... More
