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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Conan Doyle, Arthur
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. A first edition, first printing published by Newnes in 1902. First issue point: typo on page 13, line 3, which has "you" for "your". Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates. 12mo [5" x 7 3/8"], 359 pp. Bound in the publisher's original pictoral maroon cloth. This copy with signature of Conan Doyle's cricket contemporary and English aristocrat Granville J Eliot and dated to the year of publication. This is a very good (or better) book. It cast from near fine grading due to slight rippling at the spine. The front panel is vibrant and clean with the gilt complete and without blemishing. The spine, as aforementioned, is slightly rippled and slightly blackened at the top. The corners are generally sharp and the binding tight. The signature of Granville J. Eliot is present on the front flyleaf. Each of the fifteen internal Sidney Paget illustrations are present. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy with the signature of Granville Eliot. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Paget, Sidney
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet . His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15295
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Author
- Conan Doyle, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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