DO THE DEAD LIVE? AN IQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
Book Details + Condition: E.P. Dutton and Company (New York). First Edition, 1923. Very scarce. Hardcover (7.25" x 5.25") with dust jacket. 168 pages with Index. From the dust jacket: "In view of the great and continuing public interest in the subject of Spiritism and Psychic Science, Paul Heuze was commissioned by the great Paris paper L'Opinion to elicit the personal views of those best qualified to give authoritative opinions on the subject." The result was a symposium of different essays on a variety of psychical phenomena written by some of most well-known occult and scientific authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Madam Curie, M. Camille Flammarion, Professor Charles Richet, Pere Mainage, M. Gabriel Delanne, Dr. Gustave Geley, Maurice Maeterlinck, and many others. Topics include:
- The Reality of Psychic Phenomena
- A Register of Psychic Force
- Automatic Writing
- Phenomena of Materialization
- Animal Materialization
- Psychic Waves
- The Ectoplasm
- Skotographs
- Certitude of Phantoms
- Life in the Beyond
- Our Mysterious Nervous System
- Spiritists Never Furnish Proof
- And much more.
A firm and clean copy of a very scarce first edition, with solid binding; chafed spine ends; a bit of chipping to some pages' edges (due to the fact that they were hand-cut); interior is clean and free of markings. Extremely scarce jacket has normal aging and wear, with chipping to edges and corners; discoloration to rear; repaired tear to spine covering.
