BEWARE FAMILIAR SPIRITS
Book Details + Condition: Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York and London). First Edition, 1938 with the Scribner "A" on the copyright page. By John Mulholland. 342 pages, with Index. Publisher's black cloth with white titling, with original dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page: "For Jeanette, whose charming spirit is one of which I never would beware, John". Mulholland presents a history and exposure of modern Spiritualism, Mediums, Telepathy, Mind Reading, Clairvoyance, and other psychic phenomena, all performed using the tricks of the Magician. Overviews of the Davenport Brothers, the Fox Sisters, the Boston Medium Margery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - as well as the early parapsychologist, Harry Houdini - are presented. Chapters include:
- Look, My Lord, It Comes!
- Two Little Girls with an Apple
- Startling Wonders - Mysterious Displays
- Slates, Lights, and Gusts of Wind
- Faces, Flowers, and Thumb-prints
- Voices
- Thought Waves
- Special Discounts for Quantity
- Days in Court
- The Confusing Prophets
- With My Own Eyes
- Unanswered
In very good condition, with firm binding and a clean interior save author's inscription; jacket has light normal wear, mainly at corners and edges - it retains the original price and is now protected with a mylar cover.
