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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
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
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
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
1992033473NY: Villard Books 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Beautiful copy in mylar-protected dustjacket. 240pp. Villard Books Hardcover
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
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
19319188London: Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Junior 1931. First edition. 8vo 49 1pp. Publisher's brown cloth spine lettered in black in printed black paper jacket. Spine cocked some scuffing to boards along bottom edge occult bookstore stamp to ffep. Jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and corners else nicely preserved. Very good. <br /> <br /> Scarce first edition of this short book written not by a spiritualist but a linguist. Whymant was a professor of Oriental literature and philosophy and acted as advisor to the embassy of the Republic of China in London. In this book Whymant describes the seances of medium George Valiantine at which he was present to translate the archaic Chinese languages spoken by the spirits. The jacket blurb states:<br /> <br /> "To his astonishment the voice explains and corrects a number of passages from the Shih King of Confucius. Some of these poems have been unintelligible for ages and the subject of endless controversy."<br /> <br /> This book was also published in the U.S. in an illustrated jacket but the U.K. edition remains scarce in the plain black and white jacket. A nice copy. Morley & Mitchell Kennerley Junior unknown
1992051802Villard Books 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Faint foxing to exterior page edges. Unclippe dust jacket in protective mylar. 240pp. Villard Books Hardcover
1992052820Villard Books 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 240pp. Dust jacket in protective mylar. Villard Books Hardcover
1924482Two Worlds Publishing Co. Ltd. 1924. Hardcover. Fair bottom corners bump with some air bubble wrinkles spine and top edge sunning faint remains of a pencil erasure on the end page dated 1924 pastedown bookplate remnants. A solid binding unmarked pages. This is the original edition not a book club reprint. No dust jacket if issued. ; Frontispiece.; 158 pages . Two Worlds Publishing Co. Ltd. hardcover
2013064893Ouroboros Press 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 120pp. Clean tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Limited to 606 copies. Ouroboros Press Hardcover
188876666N.p.: N.p. 1888. Broadside measures 6 x 9 1/2 inches and has an image of Jewett with apparition-like illustrations of Lincoln and George Washington and his wife behind him. In manuscript above and below the image is written "Lincoln and Washington Family come at my earnest call in silent prayer much to my joy in December 1888 at 82. California Solomon Wright Jewett It is also inscribed and initialed by Jewett on the recto- "“Interesting enough to be surrounded in a frame and in a glass only think of calling down our friends from Heaven. JWS 1890" Broadside has three horizontal fold-lines and the middle fold has a one inch separation at the right margin old stain to top of page. A fragile and scarce item of Spiritualist Vermont and California interest. No copies located.Solomon Jewett was one of the most earnest and grandiose of all believers and practitioners of Spiritualism in 19th century America. Born and raised in Vermont he became a wealthy sheep farmer in both Vermont and California. After losing his wife of seven years he became interested in Spiritualism. He also traveled extensively in Europe and other places picking up his further beliefs as he went along. Soon enough he was referring to himself as a “Shepherd of Vermont and California†“Indian Healer†“Doctor of Magnetism†and “Medical Doctor.†He soon began to claim that he could channel Washington and Lincoln among many others. "He also associated with and befriended a spirit artist Wella P. Anderson and his wife Lizzie “Pet†Anderson a medium who worked in New York City and Oakland California. Jewett acquired from them eighteen pencil portraits that depict well-known historical and mythical figures spanning many geographical locations and historical times that apparently “visited†the artist under the influence of Jewett’s presence" Henry Sheldon Museum. He assembled a large collection of Spirit art and photographs and that collection remains extant in The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. Jewett died in 1905 N.p. unknown
19328437London: Rider & Co 1932. First edition. 8vo 286pp. Spirit photograph of Lascelles as frontis and one other plate in the book. Publisher's pink cloth spine lettered in gilt. Slightly cocked corners bumped owner's inscriptions to pastedowns else a near fine copy. <br /> <br /> Uncommon spiritualist work from the Rev. Charles A. Simpson being essays channeled through his spirit guide "Dr. Lascelles." Simpson established The Seekers Healing Center and later in 1933 "discovered the 276 acres Addington Park and transformed it into a city of prayer" under the instruction of Lascelles. The Seekers Trust are still active today.<br /> <br /> OCLC cites perhaps 7 physical holdings of the first edition. Rider & Co unknown
18847822Bangor ME: O.F. Knowles & Co. Printers 1884. First edition. 8vo 168pp. Bound in publisher's rust cloth boards with black ruling and gilt lettering on spine beveled edges. Inscribed by Paine to Miss. A.E. Scammon and dated in 1894 on the ffep. Pages toned boards lightly bumped and rubbed at spine ends and corners. Near fine. <br /> <br /> An interesting and attractive Bangor imprint being a metaphysical tract by lawyer and writer Albert Ware Paine 1812-1907. A short review in The Literary World from 1884 describes the premise of the work:<br /> <br /> "His new philosophy is simply the theory that the spirits of the dead are living about us on every side; having this earth as their local habitation and yet not being trammeled by the limitations of space and time; influencing the living in a myriad ways for good and evil. By this influence he thinks all that is mysterious in human nature necromancy witchcraft dreams second-sight clairvoyance hypnotism genius insanity faith-cures etc. etc. can be explained."<br /> <br /> <br /> This copy inscribed to a Miss. A.E. Scammon of Chicago whom we find mentioned in various religious journals from the time as being chair of the women's committee of the New Jerusalem Church Congress. An intriguing presentation copy. <br /> <br /> <br /> . O.F. Knowles & Co., Printers unknown
1848002783London: Simpkin Marshall 1848. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 241 pages clothbacked boards paper label on spine. Scarce. <br/><br/> Gardner 1177 . Simmonite lead a revival of interest in astrology in the mid-nineteenth century. His work was noted for its erudition. Simmonite is also credited with simplifying the nature of the calculations required to construct a horoscope chart. Simpkin Marshall hardcover
1922055094Private by Author 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Flexible black cloth with gilt stampings. Owner name gift inscription on fly moderate age toning to pages. SCARCE 56pp. Private by Author Hardcover
1927062964London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English. 11 lectures given at Torquay August 1924. "Authorized Translation" edited by H. Collison. Mild toning to pages 224pp. No dust jacket if issued. Anthroposophical Publishing Company Hardcover
1966062577Vantage Press 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 119pp. Dust jacket heavily worn torn and tape repaired. Ex-spiritualist church library evidenced by stamps and markings to endpapers otherwise VG with clean text. SCARCE. Vantage Press Hardcover
1910036529Boston: The Ball Publishing Co. 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Scarce! 249pp. Age toning to pages. The Ball Publishing Co. Hardcover
1977066147Oxford University Press 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 310pp. Monogram doodle on fly otherwise tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. . Oxford University Press Hardcover
1977065104Oxford University Press 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Owner name inside cover otherwise Near Fine copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 310pp. Oxford University Press Hardcover
1853010209New York: Partridge & Brittan 1853. Book. Good. Half Leather. 4th Edition. Foxingto endpapers age toning to pages bump to top edge of board exterior hinge starting at top 2" surface of leather binding still holding firm. SCARCE. Partridge & Brittan Hardcover
