The Hound of the Baskervilles
Newnes, 1902.
First edition. Original red pictorial cloth, titles and decoration in gilt and black. Sixteen full page black and white plates by Sidney Paget. A superb, fine copy, with exceptionally clean cloth and bright gilt and black panels. The spine is unfaded and still retains the original rounded shape and just shows minor pushing to the head of the spine. Some foxing to the endpapers and page edges, but internally fresh. An exceptionally well preserved copy.
The most celebrated of all Sherlock Holmes stories, it marks the eagerly awaited return the amateur detective after his supposed death in The Final Problem in 1893, although this story is set before that event; the reader had to wait until 1905 and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" before he did rise from the dead.
Printed in an edition of 25,000 copies the success of the novel was well anticipated and first editions are not intrinsically rare. However, due to the physical composition of the book, most copies tend to see the spine become uneven or flattened as the binding loosens and the fugitive red pigment tends to fade, resulting in fine copies being rarely seen nowadays in commerce.
Stock ID: 46052
£10,000.00
