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Lot 496

DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859?1930). The Hound of the Baskervil...

Estimate: $400 - $600

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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859?1930). The Hound of the Baskervilles. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ca. 1915 or earlier (see inscription). 8vo. 7 plates including frontispiece by Sidney Paget. Original publisher?s red cloth lettered in white; original printed dust jacket (spine panel perished and supplied in facsimile, chipping along edges and folds with tape repairs, upper panel dampstained). Provenance: gift inscription dated 15 February 1915. Early Grosset & Dunlap edition (?A Special Limited Edition? imprint on title) using the stereo?plates from the original publisher McClure. In the RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. We were unable to locate any institutionally or at auction in the past century with the original jacket. Green and Gibson A26c.iv; Pollock 80.