1922 First Edition -The Coming of the (Cottingley) Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle.
Title: The Coming of the Fairies.
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company, 1922. First American Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5" x 6".
Pages: vi–196 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown, 1922 gift note on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece portrait and 14 illustrations, including the famous Cottingley Fairies photographs.

Estimate: USD 700 – 1000.

The book: A scarce and very attractive first U.S. edition of this famous work on the Cottingley Fairies, illustrated with the controversial photographs taken in 1917 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths. Championing the images as evidence of the supernatural, Conan Doyle—then deeply engaged in spiritualism—brought international attention to the phenomenon. A fascinating intersection of belief, photography, and early 20th-century cultural history, and increasingly sought after in any condition.

The author: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a British writer and physician, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. First introduced in A Study in Scarlet (1887), Holmes became one of the most enduring figures in detective fiction. Beyond his literary achievements, Conan Doyle was also an outspoken spiritualist, a conviction that directly informed works such as The Coming of the Fairies.