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Rider & Company, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. Indexed, with frontispiece photographs, and 13 other illustrations in black-and-white (including 3 of Houdini). Ownership detail on the front free end page, foxing to the top edge of the text block, foxing to the cloth on the spine, and across the top edges of the boards. Internally clean, sound binding. "Unlike many sceptics, the author devoted the best part of his long life to his search for firm evidence of the reality of psychic phenomena and of survival after death. The fact that he failed to find it, it's, of course, no proof against. What is important is his exposure of those who, with no genuine interest in spiritualism, and having neither faith nor moral scruple prate heartlessly on people from whom death have taken their loved ones." Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 396 pages. Please refer to accompanying… Read More

London: Rider, 1954. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG/VG-. 16 Cms x 23 Cms. f/piece (portrait photos of author and Houdini)+396 pp., no obvious faults to book bar an inoffensive round private impressed ex.lob.stamp bottom front endpaper, the paper along the inner edges of the pastedowns is rippled but this is clearly a production flaw; unclipped jacket sealed in protective polythene wrapper which is encloses boards appears clean bar slight dustiness to back, but top spine region appears to have sustained some tears and a small chip, though this now mostly noticeable on closer inspection, also a line of 5 small spots to lower spine which seem to be small holes - originally took them for part of the jacket design. A fascinating work which ranges from author's encounter with the ageing Fox sisters (who launched the whole spiritualism phenomenon) through to J.B.Rhine and Harry Price, taking in William James, Conan Doyle and Oliver Lodge en route. Often quite hilarious. Very scarce now with jacket. Note:… Read More

1st.Rider, 1954. 396pp. Two photo frontis. 15 Illustrations. Ex.Lib. stamps o/w a good hardback in blue cloth binding