Table Turning Talking by Anonymous (1 results)

First edition. 191 pages + vignette title page, folding frontispiece illustration and 4 further illustrated plates. Small Victorian yellowback, quite firmly bound in the original illustrated glazed boards, sympathetically re-backed using similarly toned yellow card, retaining the original ad endpapers and pastedowns to the front, and the rear pastedown, the rear endpaper having been lost. The boards are slightly toned, marked and rubbed, with bumped corners and some chipping to the paper along the board edges. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and toned, with a few dog-eared page corners and some passages neatly highlighted and annotated in ink or pencil. From the library of notable parapsychologist and paranormal investigator, Alan Gauld (1932-2024), with his small bookplate to the front pastedown, also with a bookseller's stamp to the rear of the frontispiece. Commercially-astute publisher, Henry Vizetelly cashing in on the Victorian craze for spiritualism, with a visually appealing, comparatively inexpensive and accessible description of the supernatural phenomenon involved, and the varied forms in which they manifest, in England and across Europe. A fragile and unsurprisingly uncommon little book, both in commerce and institutional holdings.