Chicago: The Progress Company, 1909. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 206 pages. From the industrious author on occult topics (the extensive writings of Atkinson, Theron Q. Dumont, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Panchadasi, Swami Bhakta Vishita, Theodore Sheldon and Magus Incognito indeed all flowed from Atkinson’s fluent pen) comes... More about Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It
(Lansing, Mich. Press of Robert Smith Printing, 1902). Likely first edition, one of two published dated 1902; OCLC also notes one with a Chicago imprint. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 170 pages. Inscribed and signed by Bronson on the front free endpaper. A lengthy allegorical verse tale, replete with... More about Soul Immortal: A Subjective Impression
London: Longman and Co., 1878, First edition. 8vo, original brown cloth over card stock, gilt lettering, [4], viii, 91, [1], 2 pages. From the lawyer and publisher Cox (1809-1879) comes this hybrid mystic-scientific examination of sleep and dreaming. "Cox was also a believer in spiritualism and published his ideas in... More about A Monograph on Sleep and Dream: Their Physiology and Psychology
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina: Palmetto Press, (1912). First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 119 pages. To call John Armstrong Chaloner (born Chanler, 1862-1935) an eccentric author is somewhat to understate the case; scion of a wealthy Virginia family and worth some $4 million by the time he hit adulthood, his... More about Hell per a Spirit-Message Therefrom (Alleged) . . . a Study in Graphic-Automatism
(Chicago: The de Laurence Co., 179 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago 1, Illinois), [ca. 1940s]. First edition? Unbound pamphlet, approx. 7.5 x 8 inches, [4] pages. Illus. “And why, and how, have the Hindus, who are the greatest and most subtle of the Aryan races, developed such marvelous Spiritual and Occult... More about de Laurence’s “Secret Hindu Method of Hypnotizing.” Prepared for the exclusive use of de...
San Francisco: Buettner Press, (1952). Stated second edition. 8vo, original blue tape cloth spine, printed boards, xvi, [2], 160 pages pages. Halftone frontis portrait in red, illus. in the text, occasional pages on green stock. With an autograph note, presumably in Buettner’s hand, below the copyright statement, “2nd edition 1955.”... More about Heights of Living and Dying in Pure Spiritualism
Southampton, Mass. Josiah A. Gridley, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering, 202, [1] pages. Accounts of spiritualist communication and occasional angelic intervention. Gridley (1802-1876) was a physician who had been part of the Perfectionist experiment at Brimfield (not without scandal) and developed into something of an enemy to Noyes. More about Astounding Facts from the Spirit World. Witnessed at the House of J. A. Gridley, Southampton,...
Detroit: Lyman E. Stowe, 1915. First edition. 8vo, original gray cloth over limp boards, black lettering, 253, [1], 55, [3], 10 pages (including ads and testimonials for Stowe’s works). Extensively illus. “So common was it for men to have presentiments of their own death, that nearly every old soldier can... More about Karmenia; or, What the Spirit Told Me. “Truth Stranger than Fiction.” A Series of Short...
Boston: Pubished by Bela Marsh, 1856. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, 328 pages. "Yes; in the almanac language, 'look out about those days' for carriages and travelling-saloons on country-roads--sans horses, sans steam, sans any visible motive-power--moving with greater speed and far more safety than at present. Carraiges will... More about The Penetralia; Being Harmonial Answers to Important Questions
Boston: n. p., 1876. First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 391 pages. Frontis. “The following revelations of the second advent of Jesus, the Saviour of man, give a statement of his labors among the spirits of the dark sphere, where order has been established [etc. etc.]... More about Various Revelations. With an Account of the Garden of Eden, and the Settlement of the Eastern...
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Boston: Wm. White & Co., [1863]. First edition. Broadside, 13.5 x 9.75 inches. A fine, detailed, and ephemeral promotional broadside for Uriah Clark’s Plain Guide to Spiritualism, a proposed large octavo volume of superior type, paper, and binding, from the press of the stalwart spiritualist publishers who here make much... More about Plain Guide to Spiritualism . . . [caption title
Detroit: Published by the Author, [ca. 1911?]. First edition. 12mo, original printed pictorial wrappers, [4], 72, [5], 1, [1] pages. Illus. A characteristically eclectic and eccentric work from the Detroit Civil War veteran, visionary, poet, and professional astrologist Lyman E. Stowe (1843-1919), with much in the way of self-promotion for... More about A Philosopher’s Advice, or The Seer’s Mystery. A Book of Anecdote and Method of Foretelling...
New York: M. L. Holbrook & Co., (1889). First edition. 8vo, original dark terra cotta cloth, gilt lettering, 250, [1] pages. “There is a Psychic Ether, related to thought, as the luminiferous ether is to light. . . . All the so-called occult phenomena of mesmerism, trance, clairvoyance, mind reading... More about Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science
