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Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Bound in 20th blue cloth with publisher's wrappers bound in. Internally clean, bright, and unmarked with some foxing and rubbing to wraps. With Cruikshank's cuts in text.
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 48 pp. Illustrated with Cuts by George Cruikshank and others. 8vo, publisher's printed blue wrappers. First edition. An attractive copy with some dust-soiling to the wrappers which have tiny chips at the corners and extremities of the backstrip.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$505.71 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 1863. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH 18 ILLUSTRATIONS. Slim 8vo, approximately 245 x 150 mm, 9½ x 6 inches, pages: 1-48 with 9 woodcut illustrations of various sizes in the text, bound in parchment backed grey boards, gilt lettered black morocco spine label, original blue printed paper wraps bound in at front and rear. The extra 18 illustrations are:10 mounted engravings, 8 with Cruikshank's name, and 8 smaller pasted on woodcuts by various artists, all with plain paper guard, all on subjects involving ghosts, devils, hobgoblins etc. and all inserted at rear. Blue paper upper cover very slightly soiled, very light crease to upper corner of first few pages, 3 extra plates faintly foxed in margin, final plate slightly browned and foxed at inner margin and heavily browned on verso. A very good copy. See: Proceedings of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research. Compiled by Harry Price, Short-Title Catalogue of works on Psychical Research; Spiritualism; Magic; Psychology; Legerdemain etc. Volume I, Part 2, page 145. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$521.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Chapbook rebound with original covers into blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpages. Cloth darkened at outer extremities of boards and spine; small stain to rear board. Some light wear to head and heel of spine. Usual age darkening to pages, with stain to original front cover and through to page 11. Ex libris plate to the front pastedown.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1863 GHOSTS 1ed Discovery Ghouls Occult Spirits George Cruikshank Caricature Art George Cruikshank was one of the most prolific book illustrators of 19th-century England. His caricature illustrations most famously appeared in some of the works of Charles Dickens. He regularly depicted English life and satirized politics and social customs, especially slavery and abolitionist reforms. Being disturbed by the American spiritualist and séance fad going around he applied his satire to the idea of ghosts claiming that clearly it was all a hoax as ghosts always appear clothed and for that to be true clothes would have to be a part of the soul, which can only be absurd. This 1863 first edition includes 9 black and white woodcuts of varying sizes throughout! Item number: #14399 Price: $750 CRUIKSHANK, George (illust.) A Discovery concerning Ghosts; with a rap at the "Spirit-Rappers". London: Frederick Arnold, [1863]. First edition Details: Collation complete with all pages: 48 9 engravings Language: English Binding: Softcover; tight and secure Size: ~9.75in X 6in (24.5cm x 15.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 14399 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Pagination: 48p. Modern antique quarter cloth gilt ruling over blue marbled boards title in gilt to spine. Bound with original blue wrap covers. An unusually neat and near fine copy. With 9 illustrations throughout. A beautiful copy. Cruikshanks skeptical views on the existence of ghosts, spirit writing and spirit tapping. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator. Englands most popular satirist of the 19th century.
Seller: Dark Parks Books & Collectibles, Fallon, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$768.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo; 48 pp. 9 woodcuts of varying size in text excellent condition. Slight tear at the foot of spine and paper covers slightly worn. Overall excellent condition for a pamphlet, uniformly yellow aged, no foxing. The author of this pamphlet was George Cruikshank (1792 1878), the famous British caricaturist and book illustrator, who illustrated books for many celebrated British authors, such as Charles Dickens, and who was described as the modern Hogarth during his life.
Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by George Cruikshank on the front wrap. 48 pp. Publisher's blue wrappers. Very Good+, lightly worn at extremities and a little soiled. An expose of the various absurdities of spiritualism and their assumptions about the spirit world (he wonders why ghosts always appear with clothes on, for instance; did their clothes follow them to the spirit realm?) by the famous illustrator, derisively "dedicated to the 'ghost club'" of his day on the front wrap. Rare signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.