Dingwall Eric J (45 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large orange 2010 softcover reprinting of the 1922 edition, in VG condition: crease on front, slight handling, slight scuff on spine edge. 327 pages, unmarked. [2 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 6 leaves, 171 pp; 8 plates. Original boards. Smudges on boards. Ink number on front board. Ink line across spine. Good. First American Edition. Reprint in Facsimile of the original 1931 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover 1st edition. No dj. Some sheflwear and a touch shaken, but overall a good reading copy. Eric John Dingwall was a British anthropologist, psychical researcher, and scholar of unusual and heterodox subjects whose career represented one of the more extraordinary intellectual trajectories of the twentieth century, combining serious academic credentials and institutional affiliations with a lifelong fascination with the marginal, the anomalous, and the deeply strange dimensions of human behavior and belief. He worked for many years at the British Museum and the Society for Psychical Research, bringing to his investigations of unusual phenomena a combination of genuine scholarly rigor and an open minded curiosity that refused to dismiss uncomfortable or anomalous material simply because it fell outside the boundaries of conventional academic respectability. His published work ranged across an extraordinary variety of subjects including the history of magic and conjuring, the anthropology of human sexuality, psychical research, and the biographical study of unusual and extreme human personalities and behaviors. Some Human Oddities is a collection of biographical and analytical studies examining a selection of historical figures whose lives were marked by extraordinary, extreme, or deeply unusual characteristics of personality, belief, or behavior, approaching its subjects with the combination of scholarly curiosity and analytical detachment that characterized Dingwall's work across his career. The categories identified in the subtitle, the queer, the uncanny, and the fanatical, signal the range of human unusualness the book addresses, encompassing figures whose lives were marked by sexual nonconformity, by encounters with apparently inexplicable phenomena, or by the kind of consuming and extreme religious or ideological commitment that drove them to remarkable or disturbing extremes of thought and action. The biographical approach Dingwall brings to his subjects allows him to examine unusual human phenomena through the concrete particularity of individual lives rather than through purely abstract analysis, grounding his broader observations about human psychology and behavior in the documented specifics of particular cases drawn from historical record. This method reflects the influence of the case study tradition in both psychology and psychical research, treating individual lives as evidence through which broader questions about human nature and its more extreme manifestations can be productively examined. The tone of the work balances genuine scholarly seriousness with the readable accessibility of a writer aware that his subject matter, while deserving careful analytical attention, also has an inherent fascination that makes it naturally engaging to a general readership with an interest in the more extraordinary corners of human experience. Dingwall's combination of erudition, open mindedness, and willingness to engage seriously with material that more conventional scholars might have avoided or dismissed makes Some Human Oddities a characteristic and rewarding product of one of the more genuinely original scholarly minds of the twentieth century. Chapters include St. Joseph of Cupertino, James Allen, Berbiguier, The Deacon of Paris, D.D. Home, and Angel Anna.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus; First Printing. NY: Signet. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1968. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. A very good copy with light edge wear and toning to the paper. Tight clean. See Photos; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 176 pages . Sr 1/3 B.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B06XVFLDQC Mass market paperback . First printing from April 1956 as stated on the copyright page. Near Fine condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. Collectors grade condition with flat spine and no creasing to the covers. No Signature.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. 1ST. usual tanning to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 6 leaves, 171 pp; 8 plates. Original boards. Near Fine, in dust jacket. First American Edition. Reprint in Facsimile of the original 1931 edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with light wear on the covers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a crease on the spine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. (history, biographies, unusual) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First. 8vo. damp wrinkling to edge of pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Light green 1/4 cloth, magenta paper covered boards, spine panel lettered in red and silver foil. As issued. Dust jacket is rubbed along edges, joints and folds, with mild sunning to spine panel, light creasing and small chip along bottom front edge, now in mylar. 198,[4] pp., illus. w/ 12 plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Foxing visible across page block edges. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Paperback #Ks336 CONDITION: g used.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First U.S. edition/printing paperback (1956 Signet Ks336) Almost Fine, tight and collectible condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. Abe Rudisill [Jacket Design] (illustrator). 223 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Some yellowing of pages. Dj brittle, has cuts and tears around edges With eight halftone plates.

223pp, biography mediums psychical research, studies of Emanuel Swedenborg, hadrian beverland, Eusapia Palladino, Johann Jetzer, & St. Mary Magalene de Pazzi, a little underlining, fading & a few tears to dj (w/ piece from spine missing), g+/g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 111pp, bound in maroon cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. Complete with eight plates and one sketch, as called for. Covers in Very Good Condition, with fore-edge foxing. The dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and is not price-clipped. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Contents include *The Yorkshire Museum [Library] Ghost *Harry Price and Rosalie *The Runcorn Poltergeist and *The Ousedale House.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Broché. Denoël La Tour Saint-Jacques. 1957. Format 12 x 19 cm. 287 p. Couverture marron illustrée. Pages non coupées. Tranche de tête piquetée. Expédition dans une enveloppe à bulles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gerald Duckworth & Company: 1958. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Unclipped jacket has very mild edge wear. Book is near fine, jacket is very good.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 'The Truth About Extra-Sensory Perception' Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 160 pages. Item Type: Book. Broken spine. Taped repair. Covers worn and creased. Previous owner's signature in ink. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: New Age & Alternative; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 033475.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOUND IN CLEAN MAROON CLOTH WITH CLEAR SILVER TITLES TO SPINE, THIS DATED 1956 FIRST EDITION WAS PUBLISHED IN LONDON BY GERALD DUCKWORTH AND CO. CONDITION IS VG IN VG JACKET. X1V/181pp WITH NOTE BY G.W. LAMBERT OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, PREFACE, DIARY OF EVENTS, TINY CHIPS TO JACKET AT SPINEAND CORNERS, OTHERWISE VG/VG.

In 12°, pp. 288, (6). Brossura editoriale figurata. Leggera ingiallitura. Copia in buono stato, interamente a fogli chiusi.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. B/W Glossy Emanuel Swedenborg Frontispiece, Preface . HBDJ, 1st Edition, 1962, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, DustJacket some slight Rub, Wear, Scuff & Tiny Chips Tears Edges Extremities, 223 pgs, INDEX, + Library of Mystic Arts Listings. DJ spine Sunned tiny Chips Ends, .Pictured on Red of Red & Black DustJacket, Johann Jetzer, St. Mary Magdalene De Pazzi, Swedenborg had alleged Supernatural Powers, History of St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi is story of Flagellation as Illustrated in Life of a sado-masochist. Interesting biographies of unusual people.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. Abnormal hypnotic phenomena A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Cases Volume II Beligum and the Netherlands Germany Scandinavia. Hypnotism in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia 1800-1900. VIII + 258 p. Texte en anglais / text in english ! 15x22,5 cm. 258 p. Reliure éditeur. Bon état. Intérieur en bon état. Jaquette en bon état état Fort in-8°.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Gut. Leinen. 8°, 255 S. Schnitt und Schutzumschlag etwas angeschmutzt.

Condition: Fair to good. A critical survey of the evidence for a case of alleged haunting of Borley Rectory. Two b&w illustrations. Some foxing to all edges. 181 pages.