DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: Newnes, 1902. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, first issue, with "you" instead of "your' on page 13, line 3. Publisher's red cloth, front cover stamped and lettered in gilt with a black vignette of the hound, spine gilt, plain endpaper, in later slipcase. 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches (18 x 11.5 cm); [viii], 357 pp., with frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget Very light wear, spine minutely faded, endpapers foxed as usual, corners just bumped, but overall an unusually fresh example both internally and externally. Name in ink of Helen Jamieson in the free endpaper, with the "Blairhame" book label of John Blair An unusually pretty copy of the book, sold Sotheby's New York, Dec 3, 2004, in the sale of the Library of the Late Mrs. J. Insley Blair. De Waal 87; Green & Gibson A26a. C From the Collection of a Sherman Oaks Lady
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: Newnes, 1902. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, first issue, with "you" instead of "your' on page 13, line 3. Publisher's red cloth, front cover stamped and lettered in gilt with a black vignette of the hound, spine gilt, plain endpaper, in later slipcase. 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches (18 x 11.5 cm); [viii], 357 pp., with frontispiece and 15 plates by Sidney Paget Very light wear, spine minutely faded, endpapers foxed as usual, corners just bumped, but overall an unusually fresh example both internally and externally. Name in ink of Helen Jamieson in the free endpaper, with the "Blairhame" book label of John Blair An unusually pretty copy of the book, sold Sotheby's New York, Dec 3, 2004, in the sale of the Library of the Late Mrs. J. Insley Blair. De Waal 87; Green & Gibson A26a. C From the Collection of a Sherman Oaks Lady
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