The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Author:
DOYLE, A CONAN
Title:
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Publisher:
Longmans, Green, and Co 1902
Description:
SCARCE FIRST EDITION (FIRST COLONIAL EDITION - WHICH USUALLY PRECEDES THE FIRST UK EDITION), SUITABLE FOR REBINDING using original boards as spine present but detached, octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering & blue decoration to spine - detached, blue lettering & illus to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 359pp, illus/plates- counted & all present but a few are in incorrect places from illus list page, G- (spine completely detached but loosely enclosed- binding exposed & heavily cracked and fraying, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to board extrems, moderate chafing & light soiling/chafing to boards, sm pencil notation to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, v heavy cracking to gutters at rear- some pages partially detached but present, some plates/illus deatched but present, moderate scuffing/gouging & creasing to edges of plate opp. pg24, moderate foxing throughout, 2cm clean closed cut to base of pgs 207-210, minor marking to text block on pg234) an absolute must for any Sherlock Holmes fans, she's still a charming despite her condition!
Keywords:
modern first editions colonial library classic mysteries novels fiction literature Arthur Conan Doyle illustrated Sherlock Holmes
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