Lot 90
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Our African Winter, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, 1929
Hammer Price: £450
Description
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Our African Winter, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author on title, half-title, frontispiece, occasional spotting, small nick to fore-edge of several ff. near beginning, original cloth, lettered in gilt, upper cover and spine creased, [Green and Gibson B43a], 8vo, 1929.
⁂ The inscription reads " To my friend Goodhart, A Souvenir of the fight for truth in Holland, in which he was a great warrior. A. Conan Doyle."
Our African Winter was only published in England as the American market cared little about Doyle's psychic books and even less about the political and economic issues in Africa.
Doyle, a keen cricketer, played against and bowled an E. Goodhart in 1910 for the M.C.C. The more likely receipient is Arthur L. Goodhart, an American legal expert, who in 1928 gave evidence in the appeal of Oscar Slater who had been convicted of murder in 1908 and in whose case Doyle was extrmely interested, campaigning for his release and a review of the case. Doyle toured Holland in 1929, lecturing on Spritualism.
Description
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) Our African Winter, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author on title, half-title, frontispiece, occasional spotting, small nick to fore-edge of several ff. near beginning, original cloth, lettered in gilt, upper cover and spine creased, [Green and Gibson B43a], 8vo, 1929.
⁂ The inscription reads " To my friend Goodhart, A Souvenir of the fight for truth in Holland, in which he was a great warrior. A. Conan Doyle."
Our African Winter was only published in England as the American market cared little about Doyle's psychic books and even less about the political and economic issues in Africa.
Doyle, a keen cricketer, played against and bowled an E. Goodhart in 1910 for the M.C.C. The more likely receipient is Arthur L. Goodhart, an American legal expert, who in 1928 gave evidence in the appeal of Oscar Slater who had been convicted of murder in 1908 and in whose case Doyle was extrmely interested, campaigning for his release and a review of the case. Doyle toured Holland in 1929, lecturing on Spritualism.
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