Edward Babbs (11 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nearly New. 1st Edition. x, 214pp, bound in black cloth, binding and hinges tight, illustrations throughout. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and shows light edge wear. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. HAUNTED RECTORY.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. x, 214pp, with some black and white illustrations in text. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, lightly bumped on extreme edges, with small nick at the spine head. Borley Rectory, long-regarded the most haunted house in Britain, engendered many accounts of appropriations, ghost-like voices and hauntings since it was first built in 1663. But there has been trickery in its history too. The controversial story of its hauntings, and their investigation on the flamboyant paranormal investigator, Harry Price, has led the Essex Rectory to secure a unique position in this history of the paranormal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. x, 214pp. Monochrome illustrations in text. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Boards very gently rounded at corners and spine ends. One page has a corner crease, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, moderately bumped at edges, with a little delamination along top edge. Controversy has surrounded Borley Rectory and related phenomena since it was frist built in 1663. The alleged haunting of the garden took place soon after. But there has been trickery too over what is alleged to be the most haunted house in Britain. Well-referenced and illustrated, this volume draws together all existing research on the Rectory and includes interviews with some of those who remember the more recent incidents.

8vo. pp 214. Fine in fine dust wrapper. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. This book has been signed and dated 17-9-10 " With Very Best Wishes Edward Babb" on the f.e.p. with no other dedication. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book was published at a crucial time in the history of Borley Rectory. It draws upon what has been written in the past and verifies it wherever possible; it taps the recollections of the few people still living who can actually happened, not least of those of Claudine Mathias whose late husband was the last rector of Borley and nearby Liston; and it freezes the record as the psychical phenomena grow weaker with time. Ref ZZ 2. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

1st ed. "Borley Rectory and the phenomena surrounding it, have been mired in controversy since the rectory was built in 1863 by the Rev. Henry Dawson Ellis Bull.The book is copiously referenced and illustrated with photographs never before published. For those interested in the psychic phenomena of Borley and its rectory. an essential reference which must have a place in the libraries of serious readers." Pp.10/214, portrait frontispiece, black & white photo illustrations throughout. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. x + 214pp, illustrations, black with dustwrapper VG; Large octavo; 214 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A virtually mint copy. DJ has very minor edge wear.