The History of Spiritualism

Volume One

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arno Press, 1975, ISBN 024610919, black and white frontispiece, lightly illustrated with black and white photographs, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket some edge and shelf wear with rubbing, bumping, creasing and small chips and tears to edges (see photographs)

"This book, which was printed at the author's expense, followed several years of gruelling lecture tours which took Conan Doyle and his family to the far corners of the earth, including his first visit to the United States as a preacher in 1922.  By the end of 1923 he had travelled 50,000 miles and addressed nearly a quarter million people.  A few years after The History of Spiritualism was published, he opened a spiritualistic bookshop, so involved was he with what he described as the most important adventure of his life and the one which gave it real meaning.

The English form of spiritualism to which Conan Doyle sacrificed his talent and his wealth at the end of his life, is a neo-Christian cult connected to similar cults all over the world, especially in England and North America.