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Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Scientific American Publishing Co.,: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000015155
Condition: near Very Good
Octavo, green cloth covers stamped in gilt, iv [2] 309 pages. Black and white frontis. "psychic photograph" of the author. A little browning on page edges on first few pages, and some scattered foxing throughout. Former owner name sticker on front paste-down endpaper. Spine titles a bit dulled, near very good. In the early 1920s Scientific American magazine offerred two $2,500 prizes as rewards to any medium who could satisfy its panel that they were genuine. J. Malcolm Bird, associate editor of the Scientific American was on the panel, as well as Houdini, among others. Sir Arthur Con... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1888
Edition: first edition
Seller ID: 000017474
Condition: near Very Good
Octavo, 326, plus 32 pages of publisher catalog. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author. Blue cloth with maroon stripes, gilt titles, some foxing, cracked, slightly cocked.Cumberland was a mind-reader who knew many or all of the trickes of the trade --and used them to debunk the chicanery. He exposed spiritualist and he performed before heads of state. Ex libris Charles L. Rulfs [private] Library of Conjuring, with pencilled glossing, possibly by Rulfs. Very scarce. 020207A View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Co.: 1937
Edition: later printing
Seller ID: 000015605
Condition: Fine
Octavo, blue cloth covers with red spine titles. 192 pages. Dust jacket has some tanning at edges, small chip at top edge of rear panel. Author was with the Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University. "One of the leading scientific investigators in psychical research 'tells all' about spiritualistic mediums and how they do it." --from the dust jacket. 081006A View more info
