Heyday of a Wizard: Daniel Home The Medium

by Burton, Jean

First Edition

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Book Description

London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1948 Hume was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. When Home was young, he moved with his aunt and uncle from Scotland to America, where they lived in Connecticut. After becoming well-known he travelled to England in 1855, and conducted hundreds of séances, which were attended by many of the best-known names of the Victorian period. Though there were speculations that Home employed fraud, none were ever proven. Home died in France in 1886, and was buried in the St. Germain-en-Laye cemetery in Paris. Includes a foreword by Harry Price, bibliography and index. Spine faded.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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