Publication details: Faber and Faber, 1938,
Rare Book
A scarce book. The author, the dustjacket blurb tells us, had been 'clairvoyant from birth'; here she provides an overview of the psychic experience, drawing in large part on her own abilities but keen that the faculty should be recognised as 'latent in everyone' (dustjacket blurb). Payne bemoans the 'atmosphere of glamour and abnormality' that surrounds the subject, and insists that it should be submitted to the rigours of scientific method. The author married psychiatrist Laurence Bendit the following year, and together they added two more works on the same theme to the Faber list; both were members of the Theosophical Society.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 269, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little pushed at head, endpapers with a sprinkling of tiny spots, dustjacket with darkened backstrip panel, a little chipped and nicked with some light creasing, two copies of the author's calling-card laid in, each with different name and address written to verso, ownership inscription in pencil to initial blank, very good
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