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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Case for Spirit Photography. London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1922].
8vo. Illustrated from photographs. Original printed green wrappers (lower cover and spine detached together, extremities sunned and soiled, upper cover corners chipped with losses). Provenance: John Angus Morris (contemporary ownership signature on title-page dated 1923).
RARE FIRST BRITISH EDITION, written to defend William Hope and the Crewe Circle’s spirit photographs after they were accused of fraud by Harry Price at a sitting in January 1922. Green & Gibson B31a.