ESP In Life And Lab : Louisa Rhine [ Signed ]

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Signed first edition of ESP In Life and Lab by Louisa Rhine on the research work she and her husband conducted at Duke University.

 

Rhine, Louisa. ESP In Life and Lab Tracing Hidden Channels. Macmillan Company : New York. 1967. First edition, signed by author.

 

Signed first edition of noted work on extrasensory perception from “first lady of parapsychology” Dr Louisa Rhine , wife and collaborator of JB Rhine in the Duke University ESP experiments. Trained as botanists, the Rhines became avid researchers of psychic phenomena following their acquaintance of William Franklin Pierce, founder of the Boston Society for Psychical Research (today’s ASPR), moving to North Carolina in the late 1920s to help establish Duke’s parapsychology department. Most famous for their invention and work with Zener cards, as seen on the dustjacket of the present volume, in addition to assisting with her husband’s lab work Louisa Rhine managed the laboratory’s correspondence, collecting reports and anecdotes from the public. This almost anthropological approach forms the backbone of the present work, cobbling together questions and stories from various correspondents.

 

8vo, 275pp, black cloth boards with title, author and publisher printed on spine. Shelf wear to board edges, corners and spine ends rubbed. Minor staining to pastedowns. Presentation inscription on first free endpaper. Pages toned but clean. Very good condition. Non-price clipped dust jacket with minor wear including edge rubbing and small front face scratch. Some yellowing interior flap. Slight moisture damage interior top spine. Evidence of past molding to back flap bottom edge. Very good condition.

 

If you liked this book, you might also enjoy this first edition of New Frontiers of the Mind by JB Rhine.