QUINCY, Josiah Philips

The Peckster Professorship. An Episode in the History of Psychical Research.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1888. Octavo, blue cloth with blue and gilt lettering, [4], 312, [12] pp. A novel about a university professorship established in a near future setting in order to investigate psychic and paranormal phenomena. According to the Science Fiction Encyclopedia, the book "is of sf interest as an attempt to put various occult preoccupations – divination, prophecy (see Prediction), the transmigration of souls, etc – into a vague Near Future venue where they have become understood in scientific terms." A very good copy with mild wear and soiling to covers, pencil highlighting to margins of some pages. Item #13288

Price: $200.00