[DOYLE, A. CONAN]. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902.
First edition, first issue of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic work, with ''you'' for ''your'', page 13. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.). 359 pages. Publisher's original pictorial black and gilt-stamped red cloth designed by Alfred Garth Jones. With 16 illustrations by Sidney Paget. Condition: Binding tight, secure and square - the hinges strong. Minor bumping of the spine edges, the points sharp. Contents largely very clean with some light speckling of the page edges. Small previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, but without inscriptions. Very good. Scarce.
Notes: First edition in book-form, first impression. The Hound of the Baskervilles was Sherlock Holmes's comeback after his shocking demise on the Reichenbach Falls stunned his loyal Victorian readership. When first serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 it was a great success, with queues at the publisher's office and throughout the country. Green & Gibson A26.
