Price (Harry) Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter
£125
London, Putnam, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A survey of Price’s cases since Leaves from a Psychist’s Case-Book (1933), including the ‘Talking Mongoose,’ Kuda Bux’s fire-walking, and – heavily disguised – his first two visits to Borley Rectory in 1929 and 1931. The first edition’s closing line on Borley, in which Price then doubted any supernatural cause, was quietly dropped from later printings to avoid offending the Foysters.
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