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Phantasms of the living

by Edmund Gurney, Harry Houdini Collection, Frederic William Henry Myers, Frank Podmore, Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick & Society for Psychical Research

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
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A large part of the material used in this book was sent to the authors as representatives of the Society for Psychical Research; and the book is published with the sanction of the council of that Society ... Mr. Myers is solely responsible for the Introduction, and for the Note on a suggested mode of psychical interaction ... Mr. Gurney is solely responsible for the remainder of the book ... the collection, examination, and appraisal of the evidence--has been a joint labour, of which Mr. Podmore has borne ... a share ... — -Preface.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard, library-of-congress, and openlibrary-title-seed matched “parapsychology”, “Phantasms of the Living”, and “psychical research”. Retained metadata contains “Phantasms of the Living” in the title, “Psychical research” in the description, “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “parapsychology”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “psychical research”· via Library of Congress
    • “Phantasms of the Living”· via Open Library
    • “Phantasms of the Living”· in title
    • “Psychical research”· in description
    • “Parapsychology”· in subject
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-title-seed matched “Phantasms of the Living”. Retained metadata contains “Phantasms of the Living” in the title, “Telepathy” in the subject metadata, and “Phantasms of the Living” in the edition title.

    • “Phantasms of the Living”· via Open Library
    • “Phantasms of the Living”· in title
    • “Telepathy”· in subject
    • “Phantasms of the Living”· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 9 editions; 4 cataloged here.

1st ed.

2 v., : ill. ; 23cm.

1886—English
  • 0790578247
Digital resource

HathiTrust catalog record

1970——
  • 9780820110752
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Open Library record

2022Creative Media Partners, LLCEnglish
  • 9781015445352
  • 1015445357
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Subjects

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  • 990014620530203941
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  • 19003070
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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 9 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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