CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
First Edition, First Issue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902.
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Item Number: RRB-149760
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First edition, first issue of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes tales. First issue with 'you' for 'your' on line 3 of page 13. Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth, illustrated with 16 plates by Sidney Paget. In very good condition, inscription to the front pastedown.
Although Conan Doyle killed off his most famous character by sending Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls in a struggle with Professor Moriarty in “The Final Problem” (December 1893), readers demanded the sleuth’s return. The author obliged with this, the third— and still considered by many the best— Sherlock Holmes novel, carefully positioned on the title page as “another adventure” of Holmes. “But,” as Howard Haycraft notes, “the seed of doubt was planted”; while the novel proved an immediate success, readers pressed for more. Conan Doyle finally relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903. The Hound of the Baskervilles remains “one of the most gripping books in the language” (Crime & Mystery 100 Best). “The supernatural is handled with great effect and no letdown. The plot and subplots are thoroughly integrated and the false clues put in and removed with a master hand. The criminal is superb… and the secondary figures each contribute to the total effect of brilliancy and grandeur combined. One wishes one could be reading it for the first time” (Barzun & Taylor 1142).
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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