Price harry ed (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Digest sized with pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. A very nice, smooth copy with bumps to both ends of the spine and typical page toning but otherwise, very little wear. Barton, Harry (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 8vo in plain printed card stock covers, frontis plus seven woodcut plates, 112pp. Covers a bit tones and lightly rubbed at the corners and spine ends, text block generally fresh. The covers are separating from the text block but the whole is holding. From the foreward: 'It is exactly six years since I catalogued the main portion of my library and it was thought desirable that a Supplement should be issued. Part I of this Catalogue listed some 10,000 volumes, and the present Supplement describes about 2,500 items.'. …

First editions, comprising both the short-title catalogue and its supplement, together an extensive list of titles in the subject; published as part of the Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. Harry Price founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in 1926 as a rival to the Society of Psychical Research, aiming to provide a more scientific analysis of supernatural occurrences. One of Price's most famous cases was that of the medium Helen Duncan. In 1930 Price paid Duncan the significant sum of £50 to undergo several months of scientific tests on her séances, during which, and despite many attempts at redirection on Duncan's behalf, they proved the ectoplasm she would notoriously produce to be instead regurgitated cheese cloth and egg white soaked paper. Two works, octavo. Original wrappers, printed in brown. Supplement with original glassine. Price obscured on main catalogue, glassine somewhat chipped; excellent copies.…

First editions, comprising both the short-title catalogue and its supplement, together an extensive list of titles in the subject; published as part of the Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. Harry Price founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in 1926 as a rival to the Society of Psychical Research, aiming to provide a more scientific analysis of supernatural occurrences. One of Price's most famous cases was that of the medium Helen Duncan. In 1930 Price paid Duncan the significant sum of £50 to undergo several months of scientific tests on her séances, during which, and despite many attempts at redirection on Duncan's behalf, they proved the ectoplasm she would notoriously produce to be instead regurgitated cheese cloth and egg white soaked paper. Two works, octavo. Original wrappers, printed in brown. Light spine and peripheral creasing, some minor toning, near-fine copies.…