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A. Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902....
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A. Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902.8vo. 16 tipped-in plates by Sidney Paget, including frontispiece. Original full scarlet cloth blocked in elaborate gilt on upper cover and spine, with black silhouette of the Hound stamped on upper cover, designed by Alfred Garth Jones; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "you" for "your" in line 3 on page 13. The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes tales, based on an English fable told to Doyle by a journalist friend, Fletcher Robinson, while on holiday.
Condition: A very sound and square binding with only a touch of rubbing to extremities; hint of toning to front endpapers; a few very minor spots to a few fore-margins; small bookseller's ticket of "A. & R. Milne, Aberdeen" on front pastedown. Overall, an exceptional copy, with both gilt and cloth extremely well-preserved and without the usual foxing found in most copies.
References: De Waal 87; Green & Gibson A26a.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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