DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Vital Message. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1919.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 12mo. 228pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Illustrated including reproductions of "spirit" photographs. Spine and extremities of the binding are moderately rubbed, with two very short tears on the cloth at the crown, endpapers a little toned, a very good, bright copy. Inscribed by Doyle on the half-title: "Dear C. H.-- the true facts. Yours sincerely, A. Conan Doyle." *Green & Gibson* B25a.

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. THE VITAL MESSAGE. Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.

Price: US$2508.96 + shipping

Description: First edition. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page to fellow author and spiritualist, Mrs Desmond Humphreys, "With all greetings to a fellow work, Mrs Desmond Humphreys, from Arthur Conan Doyle, Dec 1919". Original black cloth lettered in gilt, in scarce buff printed dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, which shows some wear to the corners with the head of the spine internally reinforced with tape. Four photographic plates. Eliza Margaret (Desmond) Humphreys (1850-1938) was a noted romantic novelist writing under the nom de plume of Rita and, like Conan Doyle, became interested in spiritualism later in life. Her work, The Truth of Spiritualism, was also published in 1919.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom