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Goodrich-Freer, A[da] (Miss X) (ed.); Birrell, Olive; Coleridge, Christabel; et al.
The Professional and other Psychic Stories.
Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, London;
Date of Publication: 1900
Stock Code: 15539
First edition. Octavo, pp., [vi], 288. Publisher’s crimson cloth; titled in gilt to spine; black rules to head and foot of cloth; white end-papers. Bookplate and ink stamps to initial and terminal leaves of the Theosophical Society Library, Edinburgh; library stickers to foot of spine. Spine cocked; adhesive to foot of spine; ring-mark (teacup?) to upper board; light soiling to cloth; corners bumped and rubbed. A few spots internally. A serviceable copy. A collection of seven short occult detective stories, edited and with three contributions by psychic investigator Ada Goodrich-Freer. Bound in a variant publisher’s cloth of indeterminate priority, lettered in the same style as the first, but without titling to upper board. £65.00