Clairvoyance and Materialisation
London: T. Fisher Unwin Limited 1927. First Edition. xvi, 401 pages. 8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small ticket from The Old Corner Book Store, Inc. Boston Mass on front flyleaf. Rear pastedown endpaper has paper glued on from "The Odd Volume Lending Library, West Harwich" noting that Fiction is 3 cents and Non-fiction is 5 cents. Paper label on spine. Otherwise no library marks. Foxing throughout, several pages with corner tips missing (not affecting text). A solid reading copy. Good. Cloth. [23658]
51 illustrations and 105 diagrams. "The experiments here treated of have mostly been published in the Revue Matapsychique, but many of the issues of that review are out of print. It seems, therefore, useful to classify and to complete the material first published in the years 1918 to 1924." Later, "The primary fact in subjective metapsychics is Clairvoyance, and, in objective metapsychics, Ectoplasm and its modifications. I shall deal with each methodically and in succession as I have observed them ; but in the first place I think it well to set before readers fresh to these studies the elementary principles and essential conditions of experimentation with mediums." (from the Preface). The first 28 pages of the book deals with an introduction to the work, including such topics as lighting and control of Seances, Fradulent Practices, The Conditions for Good Output, etc. It is worth noting based on the subject matter that this is an attempt to treat the topic scientifically, much like a scientist in a behavior psychology laboratory might.
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