The Cottingley Fairies in three issues of The Strand Magazine: December 1920, March 1921, & February 1923
$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available
London: Georgnes Newnes Ltd., 1920, 1921, 1923. The saga of mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the famous fairy photographs, one of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, unfolds in three issues of the popular British magazine The Strand. Ironically, the creator of arch-logician Sherlock Holmes was publicly duped by two cousins, aged 9 and 16. Publisher's pictorial wraps; house in a custom
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