Babbs Edward Mathias (6 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. x, 214pp, with some black and white illustrations in text. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, lightly bumped on extreme edges, with small nick at the spine head. Borley Rectory, long-regarded the most haunted house in Britain, engendered many accounts of appropriations, ghost-like voices and hauntings since it was first built in 1663. But there has been trickery in its history too. The controversial story of its hauntings, and their investigation on the flamboyant paranormal investigator, Harry Price, has led the Essex Rectory to secure a unique position in this history of the paranormal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. x, 214pp. Monochrome illustrations in text. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Boards very gently rounded at corners and spine ends. One page has a corner crease, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, moderately bumped at edges, with a little delamination along top edge. Controversy has surrounded Borley Rectory and related phenomena since it was first built in 1663. The alleged haunting of the garden took place soon after. But there has been trickery too over what is alleged to be the most haunted house in Britain. Well-referenced and illustrated, this volume draws together all existing research on the Rectory and includes interviews with some of those who remember the more recent incidents.…

1st ed. "Borley Rectory and the phenomena surrounding it, have been mired in controversy since the rectory was built in 1863 by the Rev. Henry Dawson Ellis Bull.The book is copiously referenced and illustrated with photographs never before published. For those interested in the psychic phenomena of Borley and its rectory. an essential reference which must have a place in the libraries of serious readers." Pp.10/214, portrait frontispiece, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated dustwrapper. VG/VG.…

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