MYSTERY AND LORE OF APPARITIONS - Thompson, 1st 1930 GHOSTS, SPIRITS, PARANORMAL

THE MYSTERY AND LORE OF APPARITIONS: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF GHOSTS, SPECTRES, PHANTOMS AND BOGGARTS IN EARLY TIMES

Book Details + Condition: Harold Shaylor (London). First Edition, 1930. Hardcover with original tan striped cloth. 331 pages; illustrated. Volume by British author and physician Charles John Samuel Thompson (1862-1943) on the paranormal phenomena of ghosts. The book explores these phenomena from the ancient Egyptian and Greek periods, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance of Europe, focusing on some specific accounts and types of ghosts and the like. Such accounts include phantom armies, lore of the sea, natural causes of apparitions, and more, with a focus on the lore of Great Britain.

Firm binding; darkening to spine; even toning to pages, with occasional small areas of soiling (mainly to margins); scattered foxing to first and last few pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.