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Doyle (Arthur Conan) The Hound of the Baskervilles.
£975
Another adventure of Sherlock Holmes
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. [early 1930s].
8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket.
First serialised in the Strand in 1901-02, this remains the most celebrated tale in the Holmes canon – the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and the curse said to stalk his heir across the Dartmoor fens. An attractively jacketed edition depicting the scene on Dartmoor.
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Minor toning to text block; cloth very good; jacket with minor rubbing to fore corners, a couple of very minor closed tears, but really a very good example.
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