The Coming of the Fairies

by Arthur Conan Doyle

$1,650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

New York: George H. Doran and Co., 1922. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with titles stamped in dark brown, with photo onlay to front cover; lacking the dust jacket. Fine. A superb copy, with former owner name and date to front free endpaper. Often considered one of the greatest hoaxes of the early 20th century, Doyle writes of two Edwardian teenage girls, Elsie and Francis, who

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