Collins Abdy (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1939. No edition remarks. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout, heavy in places. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild scuffing to front pastedown. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Moderate water stains to boards.

X11 + 133pp. a Good+ hardback in protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1939 - First edition Paper cover in place, creased and small tears around the edges fair - good for it's age. Internal hardback in VG condition. Light wear top and bottom of spine, otherwise VG. Internally, written names of previous owner inside front cover, otherwise clean pages & no issues.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Edition. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". xii + 210pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and faded. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Alan Gauld's copy, with small bookplate and ink signature. Corners slightly bumped. Associated newspaper snippet loosely inserted. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Medicine & Health. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 64621.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, Edges faded, Corners a little bumped and worn, Top and bottom of spine bumped and worn, spine faded, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Original autograph signature of British author B. Abdy Collins written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4Ó x 3Ó piece of paper. Fine. B. Abdy Collins is the author of several books on metaphysics and psychic phenomenon, including Death is Not the End: The Whole Case for Survival, The Cheltenham Ghost, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xii, 210. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "with profound regards from the author, B. Abdy Collins." Bernard Abdy Collins CIE (1880Ð1951) was an English first-class cricketer, educated at Malvern College, before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford. Very good indeed in slightly used and rubbed, near very good dust jacket, with slight edgewear and nicking. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1946 3rd Edition. PSYCHIC PRESS. Hardback NO Dust Jacket. Good condition, discolouration to the spine, prior owner's stamp to first blank page, tanned edge paper. Bright and clean copy. Inv U5A46.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, July 1948. Blue cloth boards, with black titles to spine. Green Foyles sticker to front paste-down endpaper. Edges are a little shelf-worn but otherwise in very good condition. Dedication to front free endpaper. Several black and white illustrations and plans, all in good condition. Illustration to frontispiece. Text block tight, pages clean. Illustrated dustjacket, mostly in good condition with a couple of closed tears to top. Not clipped, in protective clear plastic wrapper.

. 21,5 cm. 28 pág., 1 h. Leve señal de óxido. psicologia, espiritismo, espiritisme.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Illustrations. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. The case of a spectral presence in an 1880s Cheltenham mansion, a tall, veiled woman in black, reported repeatedly to the daughters of the Despard family and investigated by the then newly founded Society for Psychical Research. Minor mark to foot of early leaves; jacket with some chipping and edge wear, large section of loss from head of spine and smaller loss to foot, stain to lower panel. Provenance: Alan Gauld, parapsychologist, psychologist and spiritualist writer (ink name to front free endpaper). Book.