Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$188.10 + shipping
Description: 8vo. hardcover. 139pp. b/w plates. b/w frontis. Fair, foxing, spine replaced, front hinge repaired. Insect damage to covers.
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contents somewhat 'shook', some plates loose else a solid copy of the First Edition.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.. The Coming of the Fairies.. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1922.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 139 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo, publisher's black ribbed cloth. First edition. Green & Gibson B29a. Old ink ownership signature at head of front free endpaper (which is tanned); tiny old retailer's ticket on pastedown; light use to cloth and backstrip slightly sunned; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Coming of the Fairies. London Hodder and Stoughton Ltd 1922, 1922.
Price: US$565.55 + shipping
Description: 139 pp. Octavo. Bound in the original green cloth with gilt title on the spine. Top edge a bit dust soiled. Original endpapers. Half title. Frontis portrait. 14 black and white illustrations. A couple of very light tide lines on the margins. A very attractive clean copy. Doyle not only believed in spiritualism and all of the phenomena of the seance room, but he also believed in fairies. In 1917, two young girls from Yorkshire produced photographs they had taken showing themselves posing with fairies in their garden. Elsie Wright (age 16) and her cousin Frances Griffiths (age 10) used a cheap camera and it was thought they did not have the technical ability to produce any sort of forgery. By today's standards the image certainly looked very much like they were put together in the darkroom. Still Conan Doyle believed them to be real and produced two pamphlets and this book on the subject. For whatever reason, the book and the two pamphlets are quite scarce and it is difficult to find a collectable copy like this of the book.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Arthur Conan Doyle. THE COMING OF THE FAIRIES [1st UK Edition]. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The 1st British Edition in Fine condition. The copyright page states First Published 1922 with no additional printing history. Frontispiece and 14 illustrations. All present. A wonderful copy of Conan Doyle's famous book by the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories in which he endeavours to convince the public of his belief in fairies, includes the photos that made Doyle believe in the supernatural. Dark blue ribbed cloth with gilt titles on the spine. A touch of wear to the extremities, else a Fine unmarked copy. A shadow on the endpapers, else pristine throughout. NO previous owner markings of any kind.
Seller: Foley & Sons Fine Editions, Saskatoon, SK, Canada