The Spirit Rappers
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
Hardcover.
It was 1848 when Kate and Maggie Fox first heard mysterious rappings in their childhood home that they claimed to be communications from the spirit world. They became celebrities and founders of the American Spiritualist Movement. Herbert Jackson tells their story through letters, memoirs, court records, newspaper accounts, and journals - written by the Fox sisters themselves and by their detractors. Actual participants and observers describe their seances and public demonstrations - and the attempts to discredit them. Horace Greeley and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were among their earthly defenders and Ben Franklin was among their other-worldly contacts.
Item #9016465-5/8 x 8-1/2", black cloth, xi, 239pp, translator's preface.
Ink owner’s name and date first free endpaper, remainder spray bottom-edge, glue discoloration to endpaper hinges, tight, square, crisp corners, very good in dust wrapper with a bit of faint staining to bottom-edge, in protective mylar.
Price: $25.00