Joseph h kraus editor (5 risultati)

Good condition. Includes "Armored Police Patrol" Wear to the back cover, with rubbing.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Cover has a large chip at top corner and one to bottom corner at spine.; torn at spine joint front for 10 cm; general wear around edges.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Tear at the top corner of front of cover at the spine of about 4 cm and at the bottom. Chip at tail of spine cover. Both front and back covers have pulled away slightly from where it was glued to text block showing staples. Toning to top of page 1 and 112. A few minor marks to covers.…

A Festschrift for the legendary bookseller H.P. Kraus. Includes, among dozens of other articles, a bibliography of books printed by Johannes Petreius and a bibliography of books illustrated by Henry Alken (89 items). 4to. Bound in publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT.

Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Large magazine format. First and only issue. 112 page magazine consisting of Part 1, (pp. 12-59) "Houdini's Spirit Exposés: Culled from his own manuscripts. Describing his investigations in a tireless search for genuine spirit manifestations and detailing his experiences in unearthing frauds." And Part 2, (pp. 60-107) "Dunninger's Psychical Investigations: The experiences of the author while investigating mediums in his official capacity as Chairman of the Science and Invention Magazine Committee for Psychical Research." Dunninger was a famous magician and mentalist, whose contemporaries included Harry Houdini and Blackstone. Dunninger also wrote a column for Gernsback's Science and Invention magazine. A strong debunker of spiritulalists and mediums he and the publisher's had a standing offer of $10,000.00 ($170,000 in money today) for any medium/psychic to prove they could contact the dead. It was never collected any many phonies were exposed. From the preface, "We do not wish to question anyone's religious beliefs, but we DO wish to take an emphatic stand against all unscientific demonstrations and all spiritistic "hocus pocus" which, as a rule, is designed only to prey upon trusting and believing people, either to extract money from them directly or idirectly." (p. 8). Dunninger (18982-1975) published many articles and books, some ghost written by his close friend Walter B. Gibson, he also appeared on radio and television. A touch of rubbing, slight loss at head of spine and also darkening to spine, a lovely fine copy. Rare in this condition. (31531).…