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Searchlight on Psychical Research. A Record of 60 Years' Work -- Interwoven with an Intimate Biographical Sketch of Houdini
by Rinn, Joseph F
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Rider & Company, London, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. Indexed, with frontispiece photographs, and 13 other illustrations in black-and-white (including 3 of Houdini). Ownership detail on the front free end page, foxing to the top edge of the text block, foxing to the cloth on the spine, and across the top edges of the boards. Internally clean, sound binding. "Unlike many sceptics, the author devoted the best part of his long life to his search for firm evidence of the reality of psychic phenomena and of survival after death. The fact that he failed to find it, it's, of course, no proof against. What is important is his exposure of those who, with no genuine interest in spiritualism, and having neither faith nor moral scruple prate heartlessly on people from whom death have taken their loved ones." Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 396 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: New Age & Alternative; Quantum Theory; Psychic Studies; Psychology & Psychiatry. Inventory No: 0237062. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0237062
- Title
- Searchlight on Psychical Research. A Record of 60 Years' Work -- Interwoven with an Intimate Biographical Sketch of Houdini
- Author
- Rinn, Joseph F
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rider & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- BZDB2 seances Houdini psychical research, spirit paintings, fraud dentin tables ringing goals Seiki Demonstrations New Age & Alternative; Quantum Theory; Psychic Studies; Psychology & Psychiatry. Photographic Unbranded Rinn, Joseph F. Searchligh
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Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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