The Psychic Sense

London: Faber and Faber, 1946. 5th printing. 12mo with black boards and gilt spine title; 198 pages; illustration; appendix; 19 cm Very good (-); boards rubbed along edges and corners and sunned at spine; prior owner sticker to front pastedown and ink owner signature on front flyleaf; title in ink on bottom edge of book block; pink ink notes on pgs 15 and 16; else unmarked; tight and clean with some light toning to leaves. Hardcover.

Uncommon in the U.S. "This book is the result of an unusual collaboration. Dr. Bendit is a practising psychiatrist; Miss Payne is a clairvoyant. They are also man and wife. [...] The authors' approach to their difficult subject is straightforward and courageous. They reveal, naturally, a bias in favour of the acute and commanding perceptions which they know so well, and the immaterial bucket sometimes sends the material bucket ignominiously sky high: but truth is obtained by yielding to one's natural bent as often as by discounting it. Miss Payne, and more surprisingly Dr. Bendit seem to me to underrate the objection that the forms seen by a medium, even though constant, may be contributed by a medium and may not be proper to, or even symbolic of, the reality which is being perceived. But so elementary an objection can be provided by the reader, and need in no vital way vitiate the book's general conclusions." --Foreword.