Set Reminder2024-02-15 12:00:002024-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : A Study in Sherlock, Part II: Including the Collections of Robert Hess and Roy Pilot https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/a-study-in-sherlock-part-ii-including-the-collections-of-robert-hess-and-roy-pilot-21913 We are pleased to announce the second session of Robert Hess's Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle collection. High spots will include the only known copy of the first English edition of The Lost World in original dust jacket and Sidney Paget's personal robe.
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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.