THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt and black titles and design to the front and spine. Illustrated with 16 full page plates by Sidney Paget. An attractive very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips and a very short split at the upper spine fold. The gilt is bright, the cloth, lightly faded to the spine and with a few minor marks and some wrinkling to the rear board. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. There is some spotting to the endpapers, prelims, and closed text block edge, otherwise the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in a bespoke, red cloth solander case. An attractive example in original condition.

Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, and as those before before it, originally serialised in magazine form. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. (Green and Gibson A26a).