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Author: Arthur Conan DOYLE.
Title: The Case For Spirit Photography, with Corroborative Evidence By Experienced Researchers and Photographers. Illustrated.
Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company,1923. First American Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: x-132 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown, small stain on the outer lower rear corner - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, small stain to lower margin of page 63-64 without affecting the text - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the 32 spirit photographs.

Estimation : (USD 600 - USD 800)

The book: Scarce and nice first US edition of this book on Spirit Photography by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Spirit photography was a type of photography whose primary aim is to capture images of ghosts or other spiritual entities, especially in ghost hunting and has a strong history dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The idea of capturing the spirit world was popularized in the Victorian era, a time when spiritualism and contact with the dead were popular social pastimes and photography was still a relatively new and exciting technology. A rare find in any condition!

The author: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.