The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget (illustrator) 1902 - George Newnes, London - First Edition First Issue [misprint 'you' for 'your' page 13 line 3] A finely bound first edition of this legendary and terrifying mystery in which Holmes and Watson must investigate the menacing devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville ancestral home. Dramatically illustrated with sixteen plates by Sidney Paget. To be read in a big leather armchair on a stormy night, whisky to hand.

Sherlock Holmes still remains the world’s best-known and best-loved fictional detective’ and
The Hound of the Baskervilles one of the most desirable and classic works of detective fiction. Arguably the great detective's most charismatic case; "Holmes is at his very best, and it is a highly dramatic idea" - Doyle, to his mother, 2nd April 1902.
  ‘To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted’.
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‘Murder, my dear Watson. Refined, cold-blooded murder
Murder?
There's no doubt of it in my mind. Or perhaps I should say, my imagination. For that's where crimes are conceived and they're solved - in the imagination.

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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.’
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References: Green & Gibson, Bibliography of A Conan Doyle, A26a. De Waal, The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 87. Hardwicke, Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes (1986). Cooper & Pike, Detective Fiction, 115.

Octavo (binding18.8x12.6cm), pp. [10] 359 [3].
  Handsomely bound in full burgundy oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, publisher's cloth cover bound in at rear, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt.   Condition: Near fine, some light markings to text, in fine binding.   Ref: 111660   Price: HK$ 18,000