CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM

by William Chapman

$375 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1882 . Rare first edition of this lightly fictionalized, anonymously published confessional narrative by Chapman, the English mesmerist and former partner of American materializing medium Alfred-Henri Firman, one of the defendants in a widely publicized French spirit photography trial in 1875. Very good plus. Item #50010 Alfred Firman, depicted here as the charismatic and

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