SPIRITUALIST PHOTOGRAPHY DAPHNE CHARTERS HENRI E. BOITEL [Signed + 32 photographs] The origins, life and evolution of fairies. Received intuitively by Daphne Charters. Translated and adapted from English by Henri E. Boitel member of the French Spiritualist Union, member of the Transcendental Photography Committee. La Diffusion Spirituelle Éditeur, Paris, 1951. In-8 (21 x 13.5 cm). First edition, stapled, dedicated and signed by translator Henri Boitel in 1953. Foreword by Air Marshal Lord Dowding. 40 pages. Reproduction on page 6 of a drawing of the little fairy Luce, obtained by incorporation by medium Lucie Piazzo. This little book is accompanied by 3 typescript letters signed by Henri Boitel, with a few handwritten additions (December 1957-April 1958). In addition, the author enclosed with his second letter a set of 32 photographic prints: "when I give lectures with projections, I have a few photos printed, which the members gladly buy". 6 of the photographs concern fairies and are annotated by Henri Boitel on the reverse (from 11 x 8 cm to 18 x 13 cm) and 26 bear witness to the appearance of ectoplasms, celebrities, vanished mediums...(most 12 x 9 cm, some with captions printed on the reverse bearing the mention of ""collection Henri Boitel"").