O’Donnell (Elliott) Animal Ghosts
£295
or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
London, Rider, 1913.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
Irish author and paranormal investigator O’Donnell ponders on the zoomorphic role played by animal spirits and similar in the afterlife.
In stock
Spine somewhat sunned, but otherwise a great copy.
Bookplate of horror lit. collector Warren Bowers Dexter to front endpaper.
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