[Rarebooks] FS - Harry Price/Occult - signed

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

PRICE, Harry. /CONFESSIONS OF A GHOST-HUNTER/. Bound in original black 
cloth with gilt spine lettering. Illustrated by black-and-white 
photographs. Putnam, London. 1936. 1st edition, 8vo, pp. 396. Bds. very 
lightly scuffed; else vg+ condition. Original dust jacket chipped at 
edges and a bit worn at folds, else good+ condition.

A unique copy, INSCRIBED and dated (March 20, 1936) by Harry Price to 
Major Gladstone Murray "who has accompanied me - in spirit - on some of 
my adventures". Murray was the Director of Public Relations for the 
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Price was a famous and 
self-aggrandizing British investigator of psychic phenomena, and author, 
who, in 1925, founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. He 
contributed articles to various encyclopaedia, including an article on 
"Faith and Fire-Walking" to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and a 1929 
treatise on "Illusion" for the Enciclopedia Italiana.

In this volume, Price has collected the results of all his important 
investigations, including chapters on attempts to communicate with Mars 
by psychic means, "Pale Black Magic", stage telepathy and vaudeville 
'phenomena', the Indian Rope Trick, a talking mongoose, curious claims 
to mediumship, and the remarkable fire-walking tests conducted near 
London in 1935. There are also chapters on "How to Test a Medium" and 
"The Secrets of Spirit Photography". The dust jacket shows the original 
published price. A scarce and unusual item.

Price:  $125.00.

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