CHEIRO [pseud. of William John Warner]. True Ghost Stories. London: The London Publishing Company. n.d. [c. 1928]. 8vo. 269pp plus 3pp ads. Fourth edition. Illustrated hardcover boards with attractive cover by ‘Countess Hamon’, i.e. we presume, the author’s wife, Katie Hartland. A good copy. The covers rubbed and bumped to all corners, edges, joints and tips. Some nicks and lifting of the illustrated covers. The binding a touch shaken with front hinge slightly cracked and starting elsewhere, but holding nicely. The endpapers with offsetting and mild marks, the latter throughout but always mild, with sporadic mild foxing throughout, usually at margins. Addendum slip from the publisher tipped in to title page. No inscriptions or stamps, other than faint pencil tick marks to chapters, the previous owner a veritable thrill-seeking reader.
A charming copy of this collection of ghost stories purportedly verified by the publisher and which adhere to no specific religion. They vary from a haunted mummy case in the British Museum to the appearance of Edward VII during the First World War who gives an invigorating speech to the troops, or from deadly deals made with phantoms to the gem of ill-omen which foreshadowed the downfall of Kaiser Wilhelm. Cheiro is perhaps best remembered as a master of palmistry and read the hands of Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde among many others. He was a leading proponent of the occult in his native Ireland and indeed across the continent.
CHEIRO [pseud. of William John Warner]. True Ghost Stories. London: The London Publishing Company. n.d. [c. 1928]. 8vo. 269pp plus 3pp ads. Fourth edition. Illustrated hardcover boards with attractive cover by ‘Countess Hamon’, i.e. we presume, the author’s wife, Katie Hartland. A good copy. The covers rubbed and bumped to all corners, edges, joints and tips. Some nicks and lifting of the illustrated covers. The binding a touch shaken with front hinge slightly cracked and starting elsewhere, but holding nicely. The endpapers with offsetting and mild marks, the latter throughout but always mild, with sporadic mild foxing throughout, usually at margins. Addendum slip from the publisher tipped in to title page. No inscriptions or stamps, other than faint pencil tick marks to chapters, the previous owner a veritable thrill-seeking reader.
A charming copy of this collection of ghost stories purportedly verified by the publisher and which adhere to no specific religion. They vary from a haunted mummy case in the British Museum to the appearance of Edward VII during the First World War who gives an invigorating speech to the troops, or from deadly deals made with phantoms to the gem of ill-omen which foreshadowed the downfall of Kaiser Wilhelm. Cheiro is perhaps best remembered as a master of palmistry and read the hands of Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde among many others. He was a leading proponent of the occult in his native Ireland and indeed across the continent.
