THE PHYSICAL PHENOMENA OF SPIRITUALISM, FRAUDULENT AND GENUINE: BEING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL PHENOMENA; A CRITICISM OF THEIR EVIDENTIAL VALUE, AND A COMPLETE EXPOSITION OF THE METHODS EMPLOYED IN FRAUDULENTLY REPRODUCING THE SAME
Book Details + Condition: Small, Maynard & Co (Boston). Second Edition, 1908 (first published the year previous). Original dark blue hardcover boards, with gilt title (etc) on front and on spine. 426 pp, with b&w illustrations and photographs. Hand-cut pages with gilt to top edge. By Hereward Carrington, an amateur magician and a member of both the Society for Psychical Research in England and the American Society for Psychical research, and an ardent investigator of Spiritualism throughout his life. CONTENTS: The Psychology of Deception; Spirit Photography; Spirits; Materialization; Trances; Seances; Slate Writing; Mind Reading; The Genuine (Cases); and much more. An overall very good copy with firm binding; bumped corners; fading to spine; light wear to boards; and approximately 5-10 pages with underlining (a sentence here and there).
