Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles – true first issue with all plates

A first edition, first printing of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ published by Newnes in 1902. First issue point: typo on page 13, line 3, which has “you” for “your”. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates. 12mo [5″ x 7 3/8″], 359 pp. Bound in the publisher’s original pictoral maroon cloth. Small pencil name to the spotted front endpaper. This is a very good (or better) book. The front panel is vibrant and clean with the gilt complete and without blemishing. The spine is slightly faded. The corners are generally sharp and the binding tight. Each of the sixteen internal Sidney Paget illustrations are present. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy. 

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Paget, Sidney 

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