DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st edit...

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1st edition in book form, with ''you'' for ''your'' on p.13 line 3, London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902, half-title, 16 plates by Sidney Paget incl. frontis., contemporary ink gift inscription to ffep ''To my dear Wife - Emily. 25/3/02'' (the day of publication; inscription faint, with wash/bleed to surrounding paper), spotting to endpapers, some to half-title, and a little to title, to edges of text-block, and occasionally elsewhere, publisher's original red pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black to a design by Alfred Garth Jones, spine and boards remarkably bright with crisp gilt, lightly bumped, 8vo. [Green & Gibson A26a]

Estimate:£1,500

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