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Photographing the Invisible, Practical Studies in Supernormal Photography, Script, and Other Allied Phenomena
by COATES, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxi + 394pp. Publisher s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. B/w frontis. & more than 80 illustrations throughout. The first edition of one of the best-known works on Spiritualism, and in particular Spirit photography, of the early twentieth century. James Coates was a committed Spiritualist, a regular contributor to the Spiritualist journals "Light" and "Two Worlds" and wrote and edited various books and pamphlets including "Has W. T. Stead Returned? A Symposium" (1913); Practical Hypnotist (1905) and Seeing the Invisible (1906). A bright very good copy with the gilt stamped covers and spine being quite bright. A collectible copy of a rare item seldom found in presentable condition.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 374
- Title
- Photographing the Invisible, Practical Studies in Supernormal Photography, Script, and Other Allied Phenomena
- Author
- COATES, James
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fowler and Advanced Thought Pub
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1911
- Pages
- 394
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Occult, Psychology, Witchcraft
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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