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1988060053Westgate Press 1988. Book. Good. Paperback. 208pp. Mild foxing and bump to exterior page edges and endpapers. Text clean. Westgate Press Paperback
1990063252Westgate Press 1990. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. Tiny chip to base of spine and rear cover otherwise tight copy 208pp. Westgate Press Paperback
1914031154Los Angeles: Trinity Science Church and Trinity Temple College 1914. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. RARE! Faint moisture evidence to margin of last few pages owner bookplate on fly. 453pp. Trinity Science Church and Trinity Temple College Hardcover
1992033473NY: Villard Books 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Beautiful copy in mylar-protected dustjacket. 240pp. Villard Books Hardcover
1980051950Prentice-Hall 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Mild foxing to endpapers and exterior page edges wear and tears to edges of dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. . Prentice-Hall Hardcover
1980054001Prentice-Hall 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 238pp. Moderate age toning to pages short closed tears to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. Prentice-Hall Hardcover
1862310478London 1862. Printed 2-page circular on biofolium docketed "London 1864" in ink at head. 4to 9 x 14-1/4 inches. Creased from prior folding remnants of mounting on verso. Printed 2-page circular on biofolium docketed "London 1864" in ink at head. 4to 9 x 14-1/4 inches. Broadside circular advertising the services of "Sibyle medium" Mrs. Duke Saunders who "has the extraordinary gift of holding communions and conversation for any length of time and anywhere with the departed in the Spirit World" and has claimed to have had communion with a host of religious historical and artistic figures including Adam Moses Queen Elizabeth Shakespeare Titian Napoleon and the late Prince Albert. Saunders solicits subscriptions for her upcoming book The Spirit World: or the Spirit of the Spirit World - though we find no evidence of this book or any other under the name Mrs. Duke Saunders having been published. A chart at the end of the circular gives her rates for various services "Teaching to write" "Private Communion for one" "Evening Seance" etc. unknown
19298053London: Rider & Co 1929. First edition. 8vo 367 1pp. Photos illustrations throughout. Publisher's gray cloth boards ruled in black and lettered on spine in illustrated jacket. Spine slightly cocked scattered mild foxing throughout more pronounced on page block edges. Pale spotting to upper corner of rear board. Jacket with some staining to front panel toning to spine and a few edge tears. Very good. <br /> <br /> Scarce first edition in jacket of this account of the series of séances in 1927-28 arranged by Marquis Carlo Centurione Scotto at the medieval Millesimo Castle in Italy. The Marquis was attempting to contact his son who had died in an airplane crash the year prior and sitting at the séances was accomplished miniature painter and mental medium Gwendolyn Kelley Hack 1877-. <br /> <br /> Hack reported on the extensive range of phenomena which was said to have occurred including the materialization of hands and feet; the levitation of the Marquis to a height of six feet while sitting in a heavy chair; apports and asports; antique weapons engaging in a noisy battle; the movement of sometimes weighty and bulky objects; direct writing; thuds and bangs; the playing of musical instruments as they floated; and other such instances. On one occasion the sitters were creating a favorable atmosphere by singing a fascist song when an illuminated picture of Mussolini was transported from an adjoining room through closed doors. Perhaps most famously the Marquis was transported or asported from the locked séance room necessitating a two-and-a-half-hour search of the castle and grounds. He was eventually found after Mrs Hack received an automatic message through her spirit guide Imperator supplying his location: he was fast asleep on a pile of hay and oats in a granary within the stables the door locked from the outside.<br /> <br /> The aftermath of this publication included scathing reviews from Baron Albert von Schrenck-Notzing Rudolf Lambert and Theodore Besterman. The latter's review was so damning it caused Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was friends with the Marquis to resign from the Society for Psychical Research and begin his open attacks on the society for its bias against spiritualism. <br /> <br /> A scarce book which is very important for its content in terms of 20th century spiritualism and counter movements. Also interesting is the fact that the events surrounding its publication proved to be important and tragic in ACD's life very much influencing his later writing. <br /> <br /> <br /> . Rider & Co unknown
19274683El Paso 1927. Very good. iv742v-viii pp. Original photographic wrappers with cloth tape spine. Light wear and soiling internally clean. The purported autobiography of Cuauhtemoc the last Aztec emperor as received by a medium. Cuauhtemoc surrendered to Hernan Cortes and was later tortured in an attempt to extort further riches from the Aztec. Interestingly the work seems to be channeling Cortes' perspective as he is the credited party at the end signing off "Adios y que al volver sea para cumplir nuestros ofrecimientos llenos del amor con que os distingue vuestro hermano." The final few pages are dedicated to the methods and talents of the medium Benjamin Salazar. Two copies in OCLC at the University of Texas El Paso and the Instituto Tecnologico in Mexico. unknown
