Rhine Foreword (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good-. Book club ed.; 253pp + bibliography; blue cover; 3" tear along back fold of dust jacket + other smaller chips, tears, & creases. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket, book has moderate softening to the spine-ends and is in excellent condition otherwise, the jacket has a few tiny edge-tears and mild rubbing, it is clean and presentable and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "The various forms of extrasensory perception revealed.".…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Book Club edition. (ESP, parapsychology, metaphysics) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Early printing of a foundational though controversial work in the field of parapsychology. Boston Society for Psychic Research / Bruce Humpries, Inc., 1935; date on title page, no printing/edition stated on copyright page; xiv, 169pp. G/G+ hardcover, missing the scarce jacket. Binding is firm and fully intact; three corners gently turned in, else shelfwear to edges of maroon cloth boards light; toning to edges and spine, gilt titling dulled but clearly legible; text very good throughout, no apparent markings.…

Book club ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, light foxing reverse side jacket (some edgewear, edges little chipped, spine ends scuffed, white background covers little toned & foxed), pages little toned, rough cut fore-edge, light foxing top edge, few small creases top of rear pastedown, rubber owner stamps. 253 pp. In this thought-provoking book Louisa Rhine (wife of pioneer parapsychologist J. B. Rhine) merges her laboratory research in the Parapsychology Laboratory ar Duke University, with actual case histories, to discuss the known aspects of extrasensory perception in easy-to-read language. The various forms of ESP are revealed in personal experience and recorded by men and women in all walks of life. Book Club edition. …

1st U.S. ed. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good plus dustjacket), appendices, pages lightly toned, top edge little foxed, some edge tears jacket (small pieces missing spine ends), some edgewear, small bookshop sticker, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve (Brodart). 240 pp. Ronald Rose presents a pioneering investigation into the magical and paranormal beliefs and experiences of Australian Aborigines. His modern parapsychological tests, including the Zener cards, reveal the roles played by ESP, telepathy, hypnotism, psychokinesis - and indeed suggestion (medicine men) - in Aboriginal magical rituals. Foreword by pioneer parapsychologist J. B. Rhine. (Copyright, 1956. This copy: First printing stated.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Small 4to, 4 page Introduction, 193 pp plus Index, extensively illustrated throughout with photographs, folding panorama of Dempsey Bridge and Tyne and Tees Bridges. Cloth backed boards, some light staining to the front board, foxing to the front end papers. Stamp on the front free endpaper stating "For Disposal" but a very good copy. The pictorial dust wrapper is heavily worn and has considerable loss to the front cover.…

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Quarto, [2], 175pp, [1]. Red cloth, title in white on spine. Illustration of a man tied to a swastika in black and white on front cover. Solid text block, rubbing to title on spine, light shelf wear along edges. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Faint toning to endpapers. Decorated with full page illustrations throughout text. One of 349 copies, this piece numbered 334. Limited edition of Watch on the Rhine: A Play in Three Acts by Lillian Hellman, with a foreword by Dorothy Parker. (illustrator).…