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The Hound of the Baskervilles.: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, Limited,, 1902. Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound! First edition in book form, first impression, of Sherlock Holmes's literary resurrection after "The Final Problem". The story was first serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. In April 1901, Doyle had written to his mother regarding his new Sherlock Holmes adventure: "I think it will work out splendidly... Holmes is at his very best, and it is a highly dramatic idea" (Green & Gibson, p. 129). To the editor of the Strand Magazine, Doyle claimed "it is full of surprises" (ibid., p. 130). Octavo (177 x 114 mm). Twentieth-century brown morocco, spine with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, red and green morocco labels, single gilt fillet frame on covers, edges gilt. With original front cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Half-tone frontispiece and 15 similar plates after Sidney Paget. Occasional spot of foxing or small mark to contents, otherwise bright and clean. A near-fine copy. Green & Gibson A26a.
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
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166686
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- Author
- DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: George Newnes, Limited,
- Date Published
- 1902
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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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