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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Our American Adventure. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923].
8vo. Portrait frontispiece after a photo of Doyle by Pirie MacDonald. (Some light spotting to title-page, occasionally to margins). Original brown cloth lettered in dark green (spine a bit darkened).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED BY DOYLE on the title-page. At the advice of his spirit guide on 17 March 1922, Doyle and his family arrived in the United States on 9 April 1922 to “leave his mark for ever upon America” by touring the East Coast with lectures about spiritualism. The lectures drew enormous audiences in New York, where his lectures had to be repeated and the huge success gave Doyle another chance at touring the United States a year later, this time reaching cities further west. Green and Gibson B32b.