OCCULTISM AND COMMON-SENSE
Book Details + Condition: By Beckles Willson. R.F. Fenno & Company, New York. Scarce first edition from 1908 (no date provided). Hardcover with original green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. 291 pages. Slight fading to boards and spine; tight binding; shelf wear with smudging and light wear to boards and edges; ex libris imprint on title page, with initials of owner; and the last paragraph (p 291) of the Afterword has been removed. A solid unmarked good copy with some wear, of a very scarce first edition. Chapters include: Science's Attitude Towards The "Supernatural"; The Hypnotic State; Phantasms Of The Living; Dreams; Hallucinations; Phantasms Of The Dead; The Dowsing Or Divining Rod; Mediumistic Phenomena; The Materialisation of Ghosts; Spirit Photography; Clairvoyance; Mrs. Piper's Trance Utterances and Afterword.
