Psychic Magazine | Hector et Henri Durville Paris

Psychic Magazine

Editor:

Durville, Henri (all issues held)

Publication Credits:

Hector et Henri Durville, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 23, Rue Saint-Merri, Paris (IV^e)

Holdings:

1^re Année – N^o 1, 1^er Janvier 1914. (Top 8mm and bottom 3mm of spine chipped; wear to bottom edges of some internal pages.)
1^re Année – N^o 2, 15 Janvier 1914
1^re Année – N^o 3, 1^er Février 1914. (Small insect stain to front cover.)
1^re Année – N^o 4, 15 Février 1914
1^re Année – N^o 5, 1^er Mars 1914. Copy A with original double-sided publisher’s advertising flyer on green paper laid in. Two copies. Copy A: (First four leaves still joined at top edges: need separating.) Copy B: (Wear to middle of spine.)
1^re Année – N^o 6, 15 Mars 1914
1^re Année – N^o 7, 1^er Avril 1914. (Leaves comprising pp. 103-6 still partly joined at top edges: need separating.)
1^re Année – N^o 8, 15 Avril 1914
1^re Année – N^o 9, 1^er Mai 1914. (Leaves comprising pp. 131-4 and 137-144 still mostly joined at top edges: need separating.)
1^re Année – N^o 10, 15 Mai 1914. (Creasing to lower outer corner of front cover.)
1^re Année – N^o 12, 15 Juin 1914. Facsimile of old illustration headed ‘Supplément à «Psychic Magazine», N^o 12 (15 Juin 1914); laid in. (Leaves comprising pp. 185-192 still joined at top edges: need separating.)
1^re Année – N^o 13, 1^er Juillet 1914. (Multiple 5mm tears to outer edge of front cover. Leaves comprising pp. 193-200 still joined at top edges: need separating.)
1^re Année – N^o 14, 15 Juillet 1914. (Multiple horizontal tears across spine. Separation to top 8mm and bottom 4mm of same. Heavy creasing to parts of inner margin of front cover and many internal pages, and to upper outer margins of most internal pages. Binding crooked, with consequent offsetting of lie of internal pages from covers. Tearing to exposed upper margins of some offset pages. 8mm tear to bottom edge of first internal page.)
1^re Année – N^o 15, 1^er Août 1914. (Top edges of leaves comprising pp. 225-232 and 233-240 still joined at top edges: need separating.)
1^re Année – N^os 16 et 17, 1^er et 15 Nov. 1914. (Wear to centre of spine. 2.5 inch tear to outer edge of rear cover. Leaf comprising pp. 241-2 disbound and heavily creased down inner margin, with stain to p. 241 causing partial effacement of some characters of text. 1-inch tear to top edge of leaf comprising pp. 245-6 down inner margin. Leaves comprising pp. 247-250 disbound and heavily torn at outer margins, with short tears to centre of inner margin.)
1^re Année – N^os 18 et 19, 1^er et 15 Décembre 1914. Publisher’s double-sided 4-panel fold-out advertisement for their reprint of a three-volume work by Stanislas de Guaita laid in. (Tearing to binding around staples at centre of spine. Leaves comprising pp. 257-264 and pp. 265-272 still joined at top edges: need separating.)
2^me Année – N^os 20 et 21, 1^er et 15 Janvier 1915
2^me Année – N^os 22 et 23, 1^er et 15 Février 1915
2^me Année – N^os 24 et 25, 1^er et 15 Mars 1915. (Light chipping to foot of spine. Moderate creasing across lower outer corners of all pages.)
2^me Année – N^os 34 et 35, 1^er et 15 Août 1915. (4-cm tear to outer edge of rear cover and of last internal leaf, where it crosses some text.)
2^me Année – N^os 36 et 37, 1^er et 15 Septembre 1915. Original paper advertising flyer for a book on magnetism laid in. (Short tear to top edge of front cover.)
2^me Année – N^os 38 et 39, 1^er et 15 Octobre 1915
2^me Année – N^os 40 et 41, 1^er et 15 Novembre 1915. (1.5 cm and separate 1.2 cm tear to top edges of front cover and first internal leaf. Further 2 cm tear to outer edge of first internal leaf, with wear to lower outer margin area of same. Binding slightly crooked.)
2^me Année – N^os 42 et 43, 1^er et 15 Décembre 1915. Publisher’s 2-page fold-out A4 advertising flyer for multiple books laid in. Also laid in, publisher’s advertising flyer for annual subscriptions to Journal du Magnétisme and Psychic Magazine. (3mm tear to outer edge of rear cover. Trace of surface scuffing to rear cover.)
3^me Année – N^os 44 et 45, 1^er et 15 Janvier 1916. (Heavy vertical crease down front cover, with lighter effects upon internal pages and rear cover.)
3^me Année – N^os 46 et 47, 1^er et 15 Février 1916
3^me Année – N^os 48 et 49, 1^er et 15 Mars 1916
3^me Année – N^os 50 et 51, 1^er et 15 Avril 1916
4^me Année – N^os 76 et 77, 1^er et 15 mai 1917. (Covers detached from page block. Separation and horizontal tearing down three-quarters of the length of the spine from the bottom; heavy chipping and tearing to upper outer corner of front cover and bottom edge of same; 2 cm tear to outer edge of front cover; 2-inch tear and separate shorter tears and areas of slight chipping to outer edge of rear cover; 2.5 cm tear and separate 1.5 cm tear and 8mm tear through outer edges of all internal leaves; heavy creasing to upper outer corners of all internal leaves.)

Binding format and presentation notes:

All issues held as original separate largish-format staplebound pamphlets in original printed paper covers. Issues typically each comprise 16 pages printed in dual columns, plus covers. Pagination is continuous within volumes, but many pages are unnumbered although counted. Many issues with horizontal creases through them from past improper folding