Los Angeles, CA: Published by the author, (1935).. (1935).. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in pictorial orange & black wraps. The binding is soiled, stained & chipped. The wraps are lightly bumped & the front wrap is coming unglued from the spine. There is a piece out of the tail of the spine. 112 pages. 6 black-and-white illustrations. The bottom corner of the title is creased. Good.
First edition.
A treatise relating the Great Pyramid of Cheops, also known as the Pyramid of Giza, to the Old and New Testaments. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, softcover. The two parts are both disbound & have been removed from the annual volume. Pages 145-198; and pages 383-394. There are 2 textual illustrations in Part I and 5 plates & a full-page illustration in Part II. Several pages are detached & the page edges are slightly toned. Good reading copy. First edition. This rare two-part article is from the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 1891. Myers concludes each part with the observation that the experiments he describes have not been carried out and recorded in a seriously systematic fashion. He hopes that the eviden... View More...
- Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt. An area of dampstaining to the dust jacket has caused it to stick to the left margin of the rear cover. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed & chipped. Its rear panel is soiled & there is an area of blue dampstaining to the left margin of the panel with light dampstaining & rippling to the rear flap. Good in a fair dust wrapper. First edition. Porten examines [and answers] questions relating to the subject of life after death, upholding his conclusions with many miraculous examples. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, black cloth with a printed label on the spine. The binding is rubbed & the corners of the covers are lightly bumped. The label is darkened. vi, [1] leaf & 348 pages. Illustrated in black & white with plates, sketches & full-page photographic illustrations. Very good First edition. The contents include two articles by Walter Franklin Prince: The Mother of Doris [a case of multiple personality] with details of seances held; and Heinrich Meyer Case: The Rise and Education of a Permanent Secondary Personality. A third article, by Nellie M. Smith, is The Charleburg Record: A Study of Rep... View More...
- Octavo, rust brown cloth. vi & 229 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Charles Honorton and a two-page Sender/No Sender Meta-Analysis Study Coding Plan [p. 95]. Near fine. Essays by various authors on pioneering parapsychologist Charles Honorton [1946-1992]. Among the essays are The Maimonides ESP-Dream Studies, Ganzfeld and RNG Research, Psychophysical Research Laboratories, The Ganzfeld Expedriment and The PSI Controversy. There is also a bibliography and an essay by Honorton himself: Rhetoric Over Substance: The Impoverished State of Skepticism. View More...
- Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Gray cloth titled in blue on the front cover and the spine, in a printed white dust wrapper titled in black & blue with a black & white illustration. There are a couple of chips to the edges of the dust jacket with two large tears, including a ragged diagonal one, to the bottom edge of the jacket's front panel which have been repaired with early masking tape. The top edge of the book is spotted. [i]-xxiii, [1], 1-265, & [3] pages, profusely illustrated with photos, diagrams, charts, etc. A previous owner's gift inscription is discreetly penned... View More...
Georgetown, MA: North Star Publications, (1995).. (1995).. Fine. WITH A TYPED LETTER SIGNED TO PETER MATTHIESSEN FROM HART SPRAGER - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. [xiv] & 297 pages. Near fine. First edition, first printing.From the library of Peter Matthiessen. Laid in is a typed letter from the author signed in full, expressing his disappointment at Matthiessen's negative reaction to the book. He sends Matthiessen a copy of the finished book in the hope that the positive comments of others will inspire him to take a second look and may perhaps motivate him to send Sprager's p... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed light blue wraps. The spine & the edges of the wraps are slightly faded. Pages [233]-344. Illustrated with tables. Very good. Among the contents of this issue are Are Poltergeists Living or Are They Dead? by Ian Stevenson, A Second Precognitive Dream Study with Malcolm Bessent and Some New Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation: The Case of Rajul Shah by Ian Stevenson. View More...
- Octavo, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in gilt on the front cover. 412 pages. Lacks the dust wrapper, else near fine. First American edition. Sudre seeks a way to integrate psychic phenomena into the scheme of scientific knowledge. Translated from the French by C. E. Green. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- A substantial letter typed single space on six 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheets of creamy white paper with a few corrections penned in ink by Van Norstrand. In his letter, addressed to Saturday Evening Post editor William A. Emerson, Jr., Van Norstrand objects to an article critical of astrology which was published in the March 26, 1966 issue of the Post: Will you kindly convey a couple of Bronx cheers to Mr. Richard Armstrong for his pretentious article entitled 'A Look At Tomorrow'.... In defense of astrology and astrologers, Van Norstrand enumerates the various published journals on... View More...
