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JAMES MARTIN PEEBLES: 3 titles: SPIRIT MATES, THEIR ORIGIN AND DESTINY, SEX LIFE, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, Battle Creek, Michigan; Peebles Publishing Co [1909], 1st edition, portrait frontispiece, xvi, 308pp + [3]pp publisher’s adverts at end, contemporary ownership signature to title page: THE DEMONISM OF THE AGES, SPIRIT OBSESSIONS SO COMMON IN SPIRITISM, ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL OCCULTISM, Battle Creek, Michigan; The Peebles Medical Institute, circa 1904, 5th edition, ix, 382pp, portrait frontis, contemporary ownership signature to title page: DEATH DEFEATED OR THE PSYCHIC SECRET OF HOW TO KEEP YOUNG, Battle Creek, Michigan; Peebles Publishing Co, 1912, 5th edition, portrait frontispiece, 215pp + [3]pp adverts at end, contemporary ownership signature to title page, some insect damage at front mainly affecting front paste down and front free end papers, each original pictorial cloth gilt + GABRIEL DELANNE: EVIDENCE FOR A FUTURE LIFE, translated and edited H A DALLAS, London, William Ryder & Son, 1909, xvi, 264pp, original cloth gilt, contemporary ownership signature to title page + ROSA BAUGHAN: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS: A BOOK OF OLD WORLD LORE… IN THREE PARTS PART I – ASTROLOGY PART II – CHYROMANCY – PART III – PHYSIOGNOMY…, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1891 [but later], 9 plates as called for, iv, 194pp + 56, [1]pp publisher’s catalogue of adverts at end dated September 1895, original pictorial cloth (slightly soiled) + ANNA W MILLS: PRACTICAL METAPHYSICS FOR HEALING AND SELF-CULTURE OR THE WAY TO SAVE BOTH SOUL AND BODY NOW, Chicago, F M Harley Publishing Co; Brisbane, Sapsford & Co, 1896, “Foreign Edition”, portrait frontispiece, vi, 304pp, original blind stamped cloth lettered in gilt, contemporary ownership signature to title page + ELIZABETH SEVERS: THE WAYS OF LOVE, London, The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909, 1st edition, 264pp, original cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, contemporary ownership signature to title page + EDWARD T BENNETT: 4 titles: THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, ITS RISE AND PROGRESS AND A SKETCH OF ITS WORK, London, R Brimley Johnson, 1903, 1st edition, 3 plates as called for, original cloth gilt, contemporary ownership signature to half title: THE DIRECT PHENOMENA OF SPIRITUALISM – SPEAKING, WRITING, DRAWING, MUSIC, AND PAINTING: A STUDY, London, William Ryder & Son Ltd, [1908], 22 illustrations on 16 full page plates as called for, 64pp + [2], 17, [1]pp adverts at end dated 1908, original cloth, contemporary ownership signature to title page: 20 YEARS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH: 1882-1901, London, William Ryder & Son, circa 1904, 2 plates plus illustrations in text as called for, 66pp, original cloth, contemporary ownership signature to half title: AUTOMATIC SPEAKING AND WRITING: - A STUDY, London and Edinburgh, Brimley Johnson & Ince, 1905, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, contemporary ownership signature to half title +four others similar (15)