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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
1909027918Holyoke MA: Elizabeth Towne 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 155PP. Elizabeth Towne Hardcover
18984672Washington DC: National Spiritualists Association no date. 1898 . First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fair. 8vo 168 pages lacks wrappers: this appears to lack some latter pages but I cannot find another copy of this for comparison. <br/><br/>Features President Harrison D. Barrett Vice-President Cora L. Richmond speaker E. W. Walllis and others. In an effort at self-policing Pres. Barrett addressed fraud and chicanery in the Spiritualist Movement and how to eliminate it. Cora L. Richmond reports that "The year just past is the most important in the annals of Modern Spiritualism". Alfred Russell Wallace chaired one section at the London Conference attended by some of the Americans. The stenographer for these Proceedings was I. C. I. Evans President of the National Young People's Spiritualist Union. Unknown No Copy Located Elsewhere. National Spiritualists Association unknown
1977049045W. H. Allen 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Gift inscription on fly moderate uniform age toning otherwise VG in mylar-protected dust jacket. 337pp. W. H. Allen Hardcover
1974063012Motilal Banarsidass 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Mild age toning to pages small tears and scuff to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. 324pp. Motilal Banarsidass Hardcover
1974057414Erwin E. Buschbaum 1974. Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wraps. 1st Edition. 123pp stapled wraps. Erwin E. Buschbaum Paperback
1988057315Aquarian Press 1988. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 185pp. Fully illustrated. Aquarian Press Paperback
1910018148Rochester NY: Austin Pub. Co. 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised. Owner inscription and bookplate to front pastedown text clean and bright. Austin Pub. Co. Hardcover
1916052378NY: Henry Holt and Co. 1916. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 290pp. Minor rubbing/bump to edges owner name inside cover. Olive green cloth with decorative gilt stampings. Henry Holt and Co. Hardcover
052657London: Skeffington & Son Ltd. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 255pp. Tear in dust jacket at head of spine area with portion missing what remains is now protected in mylar. Age toning and foxing to pages. Undated ca 1920's. Skeffington & Son Ltd. Hardcover
1972008397Heath Cote Pub. Co. 1972. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. First Edition. SCARCE! This book is the story of a man whose efforts as a soldier in two world wars was marked by experiences in the form of prophesies revelations and communications with the dead. Through many spiritual experiences - especially through mediums - the author slowly climbed the spiritual ladder gaining insights into life beyond death and into the real meaning of Christ the Buddha and Confucius. The book has been dedicated to Rev. Madge Hart who was the first medium to contact the author's son after he died in 1937. The dedication page carries a personal inscription penned by Rev. Hart to personal friend and psychic Rev. Reed Brown and is signed by Rev. Hart. Light soiling and edgewear to jacket now in protective mylar. 179pp. Heath Cote Pub. Co. Hardcover
1971020263Alhambra: Borden Pub. Co. 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 320pp. Tight copy. Borden Pub. Co. Paperback
1917058994New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 302pp. Several open tears to age toned jacket with lower portion of spine area missing now in protective mylar. Owner name and date penciled on fly. Frederick A. Stokes Hardcover
1948058951Den Haag: H. P. Leopolds Uitgeversmaatschappij 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. Age yellowing to pages and jacket which has small tears along upper edges but is now in protective mylar. Owner bookplate on title page. 271pp. H. P. Leopolds Uitgeversmaatschappij Hardcover
1937589Manchester: Two Worlds Publishing Company Ltd. 1937. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good light bottom edge rubbing slight corner bump small pastedown bookseller sticker a little spotty end page toning. Fair dust jacket edge worn with chips and a couple of tears on the edges light soiling flap edge creases. Dust jacket is in a protective cover. From the library of spiritualist minister John W. Bunker and signed by him on the end page. ; 113 pages . Two Worlds Publishing Company Ltd. hardcover
1947027368London: Spiritualist Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Tears to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. Clean copy. 372pp. Spiritualist Press Hardcover
1986054247UK: Gateway Books 1986 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Age toning to pages.underlining present most of which can be erased. Glossy pictorial boards uncertain if it was published with a dust jacket. 289pp. Scarce in hardcover. UK: Gateway Books 1986 Hardcover
2004053818Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 186pp. Royal blue cloth in mylar-protected dust jacket. Motilal Banarsidass Hardcover
1896008167Private By Author 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Faint moisture stain to bottom edge first five pages frontis section before title page and rear corner of cloth with a slight warping of boards owner paper label and quote on decorative endpaper. Otherwise contents and text are remarkably clean and bright. RARE 1st Edition. Private By Author Hardcover
19158810Boston: Christopher Press 1915. First edition. 8vo 76pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Boards worn and soiled ownership stamps on front endpapers front hinge tender. A good sound copy. <br /> <br /> Uncommon text from Cora L.V. Richmond née Scott detailing her 6-day astral travel and gradual return to her physical body. In the book Richmond details her travels through time and space and encounters with various spiritual entities in different realms all of which give her great insight into the afterlife. <br /> <br /> <br /> Cora L.V. Scott 1840-1923 who adopted the last names of her 4 husbands was one of the more prominent American mediums of the last half of the 19th century. She cofounded the National Spiritualist Association of Churches in 1893 and was a supporter of pantheistic spiritualism. <br /> <br /> Of this first edition of 1915 OCLC cites 8 holdings. . Christopher Press unknown
1956032143Long Acre London: Odhams Press Ltd. 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Minor corner wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. Odhams Press Ltd. Hardcover
1968022136San Francisco: H. G. White 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Owner name/address on fly. 160pp. H. G. White Hardcover
1920032516Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Authorized American Edition. 260pp. Mild rubbing to cloth. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Hardcover
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
1970049468University Books 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 565pp. Clean tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. Oversized may require additional postage for international options. University Books Hardcover
