- Quarto, 9-1/8 inches high by 7-1/8 inches wide. Spiral bound red cloth titled and decorated in gilt & black with a raised relief illustration of the sun illustrated as an Indian man's face, bound with a red plastic spiral spine. The covers are slightly bumped. 150 pages, with an embossed title page on fine heavy red stock. Illustrated with 13 full-page, 2 double-page, and 2 folding plates printed on fine heavy colored stock. A preface, the first line of which reads: Astrology probably evolved from primitive Times when Man first related the events of his life to a power stronger than himself.... View More...
- Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The corners of the soiled and rubbed covers are bumped with wear to the head and tail of the spine. 604 & [2] pages with decorative headpieces. The front endpaper, flyleaf and half-title are missing. There is offsetting to the title page and the pages are toned with occasional minor stains. A previous owner's name has been rubbed away from a book label mounted to the front pastedown. The contents are good. First edition. The American spiritualist and medium Frances Ann Conant (1831-1875) was also known as J.H. Conant. With the support of the s... View More...
Saint Paul, M N: Llewellyn Publications, 1970.. 1970.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers. The binding is lightly foxed with staining to the rear wrap. The spine & extremities are somewhat darkened. xvii, [ii] & pages 9-157. There is an owner's address label together with a small sticker on the half-title, affecting 2 words of the titling. There are 2 small stains to the fore-edge with tiny stains to the front edges of the rear blanks & of a few rear text pages. Illustrated with a full-page portrait of Aleister Crowley in black & white. Good. Second edition, revised and ... View More...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1924).. (1924).. Good. - Octavo, decorative blue & cream boards backed with navy blue cloth. The boards are bumped with the paper chipped at the corners. The spine is somewhat darkened. 135 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 12 black-and- white plates, including a frontispiece, from wood engravings by Wilfred Jones. Good. Number 1758 of an edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies printed by Pynson Printers. Haji Abdu is purportedly the Iranian author of this long verse poem setting out a "higher law" derived from various religions of the East and West. Ho... View More...
- A sheet of cream-colored paper printed in blue is folded once to form a four-page brochure 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Illustrated with a portrait of Schermann on the 1st page. There is some darkening to the top right corner of the brochure. Very good. This brochure for a lecture tour reprints two pages of an article by Eugene S. Bagger under the heading The Amazing Rafael Schermann and His Rare Gift. Some typical Schermann cases are listed on the 4th page along with the topics on which he wll speak: Handwriting and Destiny, Love and Crime in Handwriting and Anonymous Letter-Writ... View More...
(Fowey, Cornwall, U.K.: Alexander Associates, 1998).. 1998).. Very good. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY VIRGINIA ADAIR - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. There is a price-sticker on the rear wrapper. 239 pages. 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Near fine.
Prepublication edition.
Inscribed by the author on the title page: To .... -- who has the gift of healing -- / With love and all good wishes / Virginia Adair.
A study of women with healing, clairvoyant and other parapsychological powers. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The binding is lightly chipped with a tear to the tail of the spine. There is a stain to the front cover & 2 small stains to the rear cover. The bottom corner of the front cover is lightly creased. Pages [1]-74 plus [2] pages of ads. Illustrated with a few textual sketches. There is a small chip & dampstaining to the top edge of each page. Good reading copy. Section 'B' of the American Institute for Scientific Research. The featured articles in this issue are concerned with questions of life after death. Human Personality: Objections to Belief in... View More...
- Octavo, grayish tan cloth titled in black on the front cover & the spine. The head and tail of the spine are bumped and there is a tiny stain to the rear cover. vi, [ii], 309 & [1] pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 plates, including one depicting the author with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The frontispiece is detached, but present, with a tiny tear to it's front edge and the half title is starting. A previous owner's name has been cut out from the front endpaper. The blurb, cut from the missing dust jacket, is mounted to the rear pastedown. Good. First edition. Mr. Bird came over to E... View More...
Editions du Seuil, (1959).. (1959).. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped with some light soiling & foxing and with a light glue mark to the rear wrap. 192 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. The bottom page corners are slightly bumped. There is light foxing to the bottom edge of the book. Good.
A title in the series "Collections Microcosme: Le Temps Qui Court". The text is in French. View More...
- Quarto [11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover. The contents are bound into a black stiff paper folder with a plastic binder. A printed label is mounted on the front cover. The folder is rubbed. There is a partially erased owner's name on the label. [ix] & 208 pages plus approximately 38 pages inserted at various points in the text as supplementary material. Very good. First edition. Published exclusively for members of the Association for Research and Enlightenment. Edgar Cayce was able to give detailed information on any subject while under self-hypnosis. Investigations found th... View More...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in dw. Lightly rubbed & dusty; dw rubbed & chipped with short tears. x & 268 pp. B&W illustrations. Very good.
Second printing. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The corners of the front wrap are lightly creased. The spine & the adjacent edges of the wraps are faded. Pages [345]-439. Illustrated with tables. Very good. Laid in is a 4-page brochure listing the contents of Volume 66, Numbers 1-4.Among the articles in Number 4 are Further Consideration of the Stepanek Focusing Effect in the Light of Recent Research Findings by J. G. Pratt and H. H. J. Keil; Reported Frequency of Dream Recall and ESP by Charles Honorton; and Some New Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. II. The Case of Bishen Chand by Ian Stev... View More...
- Each letter is penned in black ink and fills all 4 sides of his cream letterhead, which is folded once to form 4 sides, each 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide, with Forlong's Edinburgh address printed at the top of the first side. The letters are signed "J. Forlong". Folded twice for mailing. Very good. James George Roche Forlong (1824-1904) was a Major General of the Indian Army. Trained as an engineer in Scotland and England, he joined the Indian Army in 1843 and later held posts with the government of Oudh. His exposure to Indian religions led him to explore, research and develop heterod... View More...
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1976.. 1976.. Very good. - Quarto, gray paper covered boards backed with light tan cloth & titled in gilt on the spine with a vignette stamped in gilt on the front board, in a dust wrapper. The boards are somewhat warped & the cloth is lightly soiled. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with some short tears to the top & bottom edges. [x], 145 & [2] pages plus colophon. Illustrated throughout with drawings in light tan & gray by Frederick Franck. The contents are near fine. First edition.Translated, drawn, and handwritten by Frederick Franck. Dust jacket present. First ... View More...
- Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. The spine & extremities of the dust wrapper are darkened & there is staining to its rear panel. xi, [i] & pages 13-150. Black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. There is a previous owner's address label on the front endpaper. A piece of blue tape is mounted on the copyright page with offsetting to the title. Very good. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are detached and the spine is chipped & torn. Pages [259]-309 plus [3] pages of ads. The first few pages have stains around the staples. Fair. Section 'B' of the American Institute for Scientific Research. The featured articles in this issue are both by James H. Hyslop: In Personal Identity Hyslop discusses the violent opposition between believers and sceptics in relation to physical manifestations that are met with in psychic research. He attributes this to the difference between visualizers -- those who conceive of a person's identity... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. There are some tiny white marks & a small light stain to the front cover & its edges are slightly darkened. Pages [181]-268. Illustrated with a folding black-and-white plate. There is a tiny stain to the fore-edge with a small stain to page 260 & offsetting from the plate. Very good. This issue largely consists of a lengthy article A Complicated Group of Experiences and Experiments by James H. Hyslop with detailed records of the spirit communications involved. The case concerns an assistant to a lawyer George F. Duysters, a Miss De Camp, who is ... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. The bottom corner of the rear cover is lightly stained & creased. Pages [577]-664. Very good. Among the contents of this issue are two articles by James H. Hyslop: Spiritual Healing; and A Neglected Type, about a man who began having paranormal experiences after attending a seance. There are also brief reports of cases of paranormal incidents. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. The spine is faded with minor staining & a chip out of the tail. The top corners are lightly bumped & the edges of the wraps are slightly darkened. Pages [517]-576. The top page corners are bumped. Very good. Among the contents of this issue are The Problem of Obsession, an examination by James H. Hyslop of the confusion between the psychiatric diagnosis of obsession and demoniac possession; and Experiments Continued (Part 5) by Robert Hyslop, who defends against charges of fraud the case of two ladies who claim to have received telepathic commu... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. There is a tiny chip to the tail of the spine. Pages [202]-254 plus [2] pages of ads. There is a tiny mark to the fore-edge & to the front edges of several pages. Very good. Section 'B' of the American Institute for Scientific Research. The two articles featured in this issue are A Record of Experiments [experiments with a Ouija board] by James H. Hyslop; and Vitality and Psychic Research by J. Austin Shaw. Shaw writes about a recent book exemplifying the controversial theories of the neo-vitalists in Biology regarding the restoration and mainten... View More...
