E J Dingwall (44 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover 1st edition. No dj. Some sheflwear and a touch shaken, but overall a good reading copy. Eric John Dingwall was a British anthropologist, psychical researcher, and scholar of unusual and heterodox subjects whose career represented one of the more extraordinary intellectual trajectories of the twentieth century, combining serious academic credentials and institutional affiliations with a lifelong fascination with the marginal, the anomalous, and the deeply strange dimensions of human behavior and belief. He worked for many years at the British Museum and the Society for Psychical Research, bringing to his investigations of unusual phenomena a combination of genuine scholarly rigor and an open minded curiosity that refused to dismiss uncomfortable or anomalous material simply because it fell outside the boundaries of conventional academic respectability. His published work ranged across an extraordinary variety of subjects including the history of magic and conjuring, the anthropology of human sexuality, psychical research, and the biographical study of unusual and extreme human personalities and behaviors. Some Human Oddities is a collection of biographical and analytical studies examining a selection of historical figures whose lives were marked by extraordinary, extreme, or deeply unusual characteristics of personality, belief, or behavior, approaching its subjects with the combination of scholarly curiosity and analytical detachment that characterized Dingwall's work across his career. The categories identified in the subtitle, the queer, the uncanny, and the fanatical, signal the range of human unusualness the book addresses, encompassing figures whose lives were marked by sexual nonconformity, by encounters with apparently inexplicable phenomena, or by the kind of consuming and extreme religious or ideological commitment that drove them to remarkable or disturbing extremes of thought and action. The biographical approach Dingwall brings to his subjects allows him to examine unusual human phenomena through the concrete particularity of individual lives rather than through purely abstract analysis, grounding his broader observations about human psychology and behavior in the documented specifics of particular cases drawn from historical record. This method reflects the influence of the case study tradition in both psychology and psychical research, treating individual lives as evidence through which broader questions about human nature and its more extreme manifestations can be productively examined. The tone of the work balances genuine scholarly seriousness with the readable accessibility of a writer aware that his subject matter, while deserving careful analytical attention, also has an inherent fascination that makes it naturally engaging to a general readership with an interest in the more extraordinary corners of human experience. Dingwall's combination of erudition, open mindedness, and willingness to engage seriously with material that more conventional scholars might have avoided or dismissed makes Some Human Oddities a characteristic and rewarding product of one of the more genuinely original scholarly minds of the twentieth century. Chapters include St. Joseph of Cupertino, James Allen, Berbiguier, The Deacon of Paris, D.D. Home, and Angel Anna.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black cloth with white spine lettering. No date but appears to be a first edition. With 11 half tone plates. Intermittent foxing throughout including edges of text block, covers and spine rubbed. Binding sound with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1" tear in dust jacket at head of spine, now in protective mylar. 323pp, contents tight. Book.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Physical desc.: x, 246 p ; 20 cm. Subject: Race relations. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Tight copy, lightly rubbed jacket in mylar. 324pp. Book.

Hardcover. 564pp. illus. includes foldout of signers of the Declaration of Independence. Small ink signature and date else near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding in a very good price clipped and chipped dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 246 pages; Physical desc.: x, 246 p ; 20 cm. Subject: Race relations. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class worn & chipped post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Moderate foxing/age toning to pages, closed tears and foxing to dust jacket which is now in protective mylar. 174pp.

Paperback. Condition: G-. First Thus. 8vo. 77pp A working copy in blue paper covers with browning to spine and minor shelf wear, minor damp-spotting to edges of some pages, not affecting text. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 174 pages. Grey and black dust jacket over black cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Original cloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket worn/ damaged at edges and spine discolored. Top of spine a bit damaged, else a good copy. Contents very good. Text in English. With few figures in black and white. Please see description or ask for photos.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Octavo. 8 12 x 5 3/4". 227pp. plus 20pp. ads at rear. Dark green cloth with gilt title. Ownership signature on fly-leaf.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. B/W Glossy Emanuel Swedenborg Frontispiece, Preface . HBDJ, 1st Edition, 1962, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DustJacket some slight Rub, Wear, Scuff & Tiny Chips Tears Edges Extremities, 223 pgs, INDEX, + Library of Mystic Arts Listings. DJ spine Sunned tiny Chips Ends, .Pictured on Red of Red & Black DustJacket, Johann Jetzer, St. Mary Magdalene De Pazzi, Swedenborg had alleged Supernatural Powers, History of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi is story of Flagellation as Illustrated in Life of a sado-masochist. Interesting biographies of unusual people.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ,OP, 1st edition, 1956, Index, 174 Pgs, DJ Some rub,wear & small chips top DJ & tiny Chips Extremities, F-/VG, AS-IS, Interior nice tight clean light Fox Wear, Black cloth lettered silver Gilt Spine, Index.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

First Ed.,12 pLAGES. 198PP. LAR.8VO. WITH DUST JACKET.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Offprint. Wraps. 8vo, pp (263)-269. No date, c.1926. Spirit photography. German text. Much mention of Spirit photographer George Moss. Very slight edgewear otherwise VG.

Relié. Condition: Bon état. in-8 Description :316 pp. Collection "Les Pouvoirs inconnus de l'Homme". Langue : Français Nb de volumes : 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with removable plastic covered clipped dust jacket, in good condition. Jacket is foxed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked, including small tears. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block is tanned and foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

xiv,181pp. with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Inner binding over stretched between pages 48/49 and 64/65, light rubbing on corner tips, solid and tight binding. Written while Dingwall was Research Officer at the Society for Physical Research, it seeks to prepare sitters for the phenomena they might experience - such as automatic writing, materialization, and psychometry - and to recognize fraudulent activity. Dingwall (1890-1986) travelled extensively across Europe and the US researching mediums. He used his skills as a member of the Magic Circle to expose several potential frauds along the way, including Eusapia Palladino and Eva Carrière. Spiritualist guide. Occult.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. pp128 pp1. Bibliography pp5 Index. Inscribed by the author on end paper in pencil. Contains a typed loose slip with Christmas Greetings 1939. Short stories and biographical studies,with a story on the history of The Postal Service. Includes b/w photograph by the author of his child and dog. Very good in very good dust jacket, with slight nicks and tanning on spine. Signedes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1-14pp, staple bound [staples rusty], Scarce, with only one other copy in OCLC. INSCRIBED "H. P. from E. J. D." on page 1. Harry Price and E. J. Dingwall were co-researchers into paranormal activities, which included their re-publishing of an anonymous work written by a medium entitled Revelations of a Spirit Medium (1922) which exposed the tricks of mediumship. They also traveled to Germany together to investigate Willi Schneider in 1922. There is a crease down the middle of the pages, where this was folded in half, possibly for mailing. Now housed in a protective envelope.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 174pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Some rubbing to dustjacket edges. (10/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Watts 1946. No jacket. Spine sun-faded, moderate wear, a little staining. Pages yellowed with sporadic foxing, binding reasonably firm.