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$250
$250
Ewer, F. C. The Eventful Night of August 20th and 21st, 1854 and How Just Edmonds was Hocussed; or Fallibility of “Spiritualism” Exposed. New York: Samuel Hueston, 1855. First edition. Printed wraps. 8vo. Foxed, corners bumped; very good. An early expose of credulous adherents to the spiritualist movement, published just a five years after the Fox sisters began hearing spirit raps, the sounds that eventually gave birth to the concept of “talking to the dead.”
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-02-02