ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: COMING OF THE FAIRIES 1ST US EDN 1922 REASONABLE EX LIB COPY for Sale

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: COMING OF THE FAIRIES 1ST US EDN 1922 REASONABLE EX LIB COPY For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: COMING OF THE FAIRIES 1ST US EDN 1922 REASONABLE EX LIB COPY:
$349.99

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES.

NY: George H. Doran Company. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 1922 [1ST UK 1921].

ix (9) + 196 pages. FRONTISPIECE + 14 ILLUSTRATIONS ON PLATES. Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inch) hardcover, full light brown cloth, titling in black to spine, paste-on illustration & black titling front.

Ex library with a couple of call numbers front & rear, removed label front & removed pocket rear, some minor remnants of removed label on lower spine & front board (SEE ALL PICS), some wear to corners (SEE PICS), light chipping to head & base of spine (SEE PICS), minor ink stain top edge (SEE PIC), some touch ups to torn section of paste-on front (SEE PIC), but both hinges repaired & reinforced (SEE PICS), & now solid & GOOD CONDITION.

FROM DOYLE’S PREFACE:

“This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures.”

Some of the book consists of correspondence between Doyle and E. L. Gardener of the Theosophical society. Both Doyle and Gardner, along with another Theosophist named Geoffrey Hodson, were called in to examine the case of these fairy photos, which were taken by two school-girls at Cottingley Glen (sometimes spelled Cottingly) around 1917.

That the author of the great and extremely perspicacious Sherlock Holmes should have taken these photographs seriously for even a moment seems strange today, but the time in which they appeared has to be taken into account. The latter half of the 19th and early part of the 20th century had seen an explosion of so-called "spiritualism", including whole spiritualist churches, and Doyle himself and many other intellectuals of the time became involved in all of these beliefs and debates about "spiritual" entities, beliefs and debates which seemed to make all of the long-standing legends and folk-beliefs about fairies have some possible basis in reality. Consider also that photography was at the time only about a half-century old, and the tricks that could be done with photography, especially by two precocious school-girls, were still in early stages of development.

CONTENTS:

I.) HOW THE MATTER AROSE. • II.) THE FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT, STRAND CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1920. • III.) RECEPTION OF THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS. • IV.) THE SECOND SERIES. • V.) OBSERVATIONS OF A CLAIRVOYANT IN THE COTTINGLEY GLEN, AUGUST 1921. • VI.) INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE FOR FAIRIES. • VII.) SOME SUBSEQUENT CASES. • VIII.) THE THEOSOPHIC VIEW OF FAIRIES.

[keywords occult occultism magic magick fairies druids druidism celtic celtica spiritualism mesmerism theosophy theosophical society religion religious mysticism mystical philosophy india indian hindu hinduism buddhist judaism jewish kabbalah cabala qabbalah magic magick fairies druids druidism celtic celtica spiritualism mesmerism theosophy theosophical society hodson religion religious mysticism mystical philosophy devas jin jinn djin djinn spirits sprites elementals shamanism psychedelia entheogens hallicinogenics hallucinogens arthur arthurian literature holy grail sangreal britain british john dee seership angelology demonology witchcraft saxons britons pendragon arthurian romances aligensian crusade cathar heresy knights templars chivalry sword and sorcery fantasy game of thrones]

EX LIBRARY, BUT A DECENT EX LIBRARY WITH REPAIRS (SEE FULL DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION ABOVE).