Fifty Years in Psychic Research: A Remarkable Record of Phenomenal Facts
Published by Boston, Massachusetts: Chapple Publishing Company, 1927
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: My Father's Books, Bennington, VT, U.S.A.My Father's Books
AbeBooks seller since November 5, 2002
Condition: Used - Very good
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[Date from the copyright page.] Frontispiece Portrait plus three more; 483 pages. The attractive deep-red cloth is is very good, with spine ends and corner tips rubbed with some fraying. Gilt lettering on spine and upper board is clearly discernible. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] Top edge gilt. All four portrait plates are excellent. Interior leaves are clean and unmarked, though gently toned throughout, with toning to both free endpapers. The front hinge is superficially cracked, pulling slightly at the top, but binding remains strong. A smart label from 'Dale News, Inc. / Lily Dale, N.Y.' appears on the front free endpaper. (Lily Dale is a hamlet in southwestern New York that still serves as a meeting place for spiritualists and freethinkers.) This is a fascinating account, drawing from stories and reports from 1873 to 1915, compiled by the founder of the New York Psychical Society. From the preface: "Does not reason deny the need of a wandering shapeless consciousness searching for human embodiment? Do not the spiritual facts prove continual opportunity and desire for progress? Should they not convince us that the bottom is knocked out of the bottomless, that the future life is but another free gift, that the Omnipotent Father is not a pitiless Warden of an eternal prison, that the resurrection of all bodies of the past, present and future, does not depend upon the blast of a Gabriel horn for orderly huddling of human bones after indefinite ages of delay and decay?" As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Fifty Years in Psychic Research: A Remarkable Record of Phenomenal Facts
- Author
- Snipes, Joseph F.
- Publisher
- Boston, Massachusetts: Chapple Publishing Company
- Publication year
- 1927
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Esoterica, History, Psychology
My Father's Books
Bennington, VT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 5, 2002
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The books listed here are, indeed, from my father's library, representing the depth and varied interests of a modern scholar's mind. Dr. Henry LeRoy Finch, professor emeritus of philosophy and a published author, trained in the classics (graduating top in his class at Yale), and went on to develop an appreciation for modern thinkers. It took over half-a-century to amass this collection of primarily-scholarly books with a broad range of subjects from Philosophy and Religion (with an emphasis on the interrelationships and intricacies of Eastern and Western Thinking) to scientific influences played out over the entire history of humankind, touching necessarily on Art, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature, History of various Cultures, Psychology, Physics, and Spiritual Thought, including Theosophy and Mysticism. Many are esoteric philosophical works, out-of-print and unavailable elsewhere. A great number cover the interconnections of so many subjects as to defy classification. His was a working library: each volume was read and familiar, its whereabouts on a shelf always known, even when "double-parked." Though many of the books are esoteric, others will appeal to the general reader, often making an abstruse subject more approachable. (There are a hundred books on Einstein alone!) In addition, there are numerous paperbacks--classics, scholarly, first-published editions, several versions of the same book (in different translations), handy for packing along in a back pocket. Each of the volumes from the collection has a bookplate tipped in at the front and may have pencil marginalia--sparse or profuse. I have tried to reflect this in all the listings, but feel free to call and discuss further details of a book's condition. As it will take a long time to write up all the descriptions, some of you may wish to call and ask about a particular book you have been seeking. Meanwhile, I'll try to keep an eye on the "Wants" list. Thank you for visiting this page. I hope my father's books will eventually find happy homes; it was one of his last wishes.…
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