VOICES FROM THE VOID: SIX YEARS EXPERIENCE IN AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS
Book Details + Condition: E.P. Dutton & Company (New York). First Edition, 1919. Hardcover. 164 pages. Written by famed Irish medium Hester Travers Smith, also known as Hester Dowden, who gained notoriety for claiming to have contacted the spirits of Francis Bacon and Oscar Wilde, among others. This volume is a memoir of six years of her life as a Spiritualist medium, with topics including psychometry, telepathy, and other related themes, and featuring an introduction by English parapsychologist William F. Barrett. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering on front. Overall in very good condition, with tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; light shelf wear to boards and smudging / discoloration to spine; small hole / notch to bottom of last 20 pages (an old bookworm, perhaps); interior is clean and free of markings.