Cape Town: Juta & Co., 1922. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled booklet. 36pp. Inscribed on the Contents page: "With the Author's compliments, Cape Town, 10th April, 1924." An extremely unusual South-African-published Spiritualist tract. The work comprises a Preface; Forward, and four chapters: The Psychology of a Soul; Spiritualism; Automatic Writing; The..... More
London: The Greater World, ND. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 94pp. Light blue papered boards lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Reflections by Winifred Adair Roberts (ca.1910-1974), a Christian spiritualist who had also been very active as a suffragist. Spine ends rubbed, spine faded, boards unevenly faded &..... More
London: Arthur H. Stockwell, ND [ Circa 1934 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 96pp. Purple cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. B/w frontis. portrait. Signed by the author on a small piece of paper tipped on to front endpaper. Previous owner's signature: Marguerite Roberts, likely both..... More
Boston, MA: Boston Society for Psychic Research, February, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 400pp. Original cloth lettered on spine. Index. Lydia Allison was one of the founders of the Boston Society for Psychic Research and oversaw is publications, while Walter Franklin Prince, was the Research Officer for the Society..... More
London: Chas. J. Thynne & Jarvis, ND [ 1930 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 212pp. + 4pp. ads. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index. From the jacket "The 'flashlights' which abound in this treatise on personal immortality shew the need of a trusworthy Revelation, whilst the..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ND [ 1918 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Original brown decorated cloth lettered in black on spine. B/w frontis. An anonymous and unfavorable comment on one of the best known and most controversial books written by Sir Oliver Lodge. Lodge's youngest son..... More
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, ND [ ca. 1840]. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo. 24pp. Probably extracted from an early-to mid nineteeth century printed collection of chapbooks. Bound in modern blue stiff cloth wrappers with printed paper title label on upper cover. Black and white engraving and decorative border to title-page..... More
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London: Nichols & Co. / Tutin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 344pp + 29pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and gilt rules to upper board. Two titles in one volume each with its own title page. Published anonymously, both appear to have been written by British poet..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ND [ Copyright 1977 ]. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 208pp. Red papered boards lettered in black on spine. B/w frontis. & several illustrations. The fantastic story of the widely publicized haunting of George and Kathleen Lutz's home in Amityville, NY. Later made into..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 188pp, iv adverts. Original black cloth with gilt titling on upper board and spine, index. This copy INSCRIBED to the original owner on the front blank: "Godfrey Rice / from the Writer / July 1927". An exploration of the content..... More
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London: Rider & Co., Provisional date: November 20, 1972. Uncorrected proof copy. Softcover. Slim octavo. 158pp. Printed wrappers. Publisher's "Proof copy." Spine ends slightly chafed, minor creases to bottom-corners, spine slightly faded, else a tight, clean VG copy. More
Moradabad, India: J.P. Atreya / Darshana, 1963. Softcover. 4 volumes. Octavos. viii + 116, viii + 112, vi + 124, vi + 124, Printed soft paper wrappers. The four consecutive quarterly issues (which make up the complete year of 1963) of this broad-ranging philosophical/mystical quarterly. Quality writing, but cheap Indian..... More
London: Rider & Co., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 288pp. + 36pp. ads. Original red cloth lettered on spine. Spine ends chafed, spine leaned & faded, spine lettering dulled, page-edges browned, owner's name on front free endpaper, short creased tears to top-edge of page 121/122, occasional marginal pencil marks -..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxiv + 372pp. Full leather library binding, raised bands, gilt rules & lettering on spine. Both the front and rear boards have the seal of "The Society of Writers to the Signet" - a prestigious private society..... More
London: T. Werner Laurie, ND [ Circa 1909 ]. First UK edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 230pp.+ xiv pp publisher's catalog. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, black borders and title to upper board and lettering to spine. An examination of spiritualism from a Christian perspective by the author of 'Seen..... More
New York, NY: Dodge Publishing Company, 1909. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 234pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board. Blind rules to upper board. An examination of spiritualism from a Christian perspective by the author of 'Seen and Unseen" and "Do the Dead Depart?". Spine ends..... More
Paris: Librairie Fischbacher, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Small Octavo. 292 + (ii)pp. Original printed wrappers. FRENCH text. The author, Alfred Benezech, was a French pastor and pyschical researcher, well known in Spiritualist circles and a friend of spiritualist philosopher Léon Denis and Jean Meyer (founder of the International Federation of..... More
London: Privately published, ND (c.1920s). First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 122pp. + 2pp. ads. Blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on front board. Spine faded & a little chafed at ends, corners bumped and chafed, page-edges toned, else a tight, clean VG+ copy (no dust jacket). More
London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1891 - 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Six original issues of this scarce periodical. ii + 528pp. Original publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind, front cover has tipped on illustrated panel with angel and title in silver, gilt lettered and embellished on spine, index. Six bound..... 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
Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., NC (circa 1950s). Reprint. Softcover. Stapled booklet. 32pp. Printed wrappers. An anti-Spiritualist tract by the American Presbyterian evangelist William Edward Biederwolf (1867 – 1939). Although undated the advertisements at the rear suggest that this is probably a 1950s reprint. Wrappers slightly rubbed..... More
London: Burns & Oates, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 158pp. Printed papered boards. No.43 in the 'Faith & Fact' series. Bibliography. In this book, which bears the Nihil Obstat of the Catholic Church, Dr. Biot undertakes a serious examination of the phenomena of stigmata. Boards lightly rubbed, a little darkened..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii + 310pp. Original beige cloth lettered on spine & index. B/w frontis. The autobiography of James Malcolm Bird (1886 – 1964), an American mathematician and parapsychologist who was for a time research officer for the American Society for Psychical..... More
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 250pp. Blue papered boards lettered in silver on spine. Bibliography. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ownership name & ex-libris seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper. Signed inscription from the author to Coleman on front..... More
London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1956. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo.140pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, b&w frontisportrait. The first edition of this account of a scientific investigation of reincarnation conducted in the presence of witnesses by English hypnotist, Henry Blythe. Spine ends & corners bumped and lightly..... More
