ghosts vivisected impartial inquiry manners de stirling a m w (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Minor edgewear to unclipped, pictorial dust jacket. 186pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. 186pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny rubbed tears at the crown. A fresh copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Burgundy Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 190 pp Frontis + 8 other b/w illustrations from pictures at Old Battersea House, all as called for. First Edition 1957.The copy offered by us is from the library of Andrew Carr Mackenzie. (1911-2001) journalist, novelist and parapsychologist who was a writer of detective fiction and vice president of the Society for Psychical Research. A leading researcher in the field of psychical research in the 1970s. (Wikipedia). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- moderate general shelf wear and soiling to boards, gilt titles dulled, front free end paper replaced. Pencil subject related note to last text page. No previous owner name or insc.

189pp. frontis. B/w Plates. corner clipped from fep., o/w a Good+ hardback, top of spine lightly faded Accounted hauntings, rappings, prophetic dreams, & other inexplicable phenoemena: while the primitive & religious aspects of each is impartially reviewed.

189pp. frontis. B/w Plates. A Good+ hardback Accounted hauntings, rappings, prophetic dreams, & other inexplicable phenoemena: while the primitive & religious aspects of each is impartially reviewed.

189pp. frontis. B/w Plates. Good+ hardback in worn dustcover Accounted hauntings, rappings, prophetic dreams, & other inexplicable phenoemena: while the primitive & religious aspects of each is impartially reviewed.

8vo, pp. 189, [1 (blank); with half-title and 5 photographic plates; a very good copy in the original publisher's burgundy cloth, lacking dust-jacket.First edition, a very readable account of otherworldly encounters, with illustrations by the Symbolist painter Evelyn de Morgan, the author's elder sister.Despite professing to be 'allergic to ghosts', A.M.W. Stirling (18651965) here attempts to 'review the apparently incomprehensible Psychic incidents which have come under my immediate notice, and have been attested to me by reliable narrators who had individually experienced the occurrences affirmed' (p. 9).The nine illustrations on the themes of death and spirituality are reproductions of works by the author's sister, Evelyn de Morgan, and her uncle, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, all from the author's private collection at Old Battersea House. Language: English.