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' p.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 (binding size 19.5x13cm), pp. [10] 359 [1].
  Handsomely bound in full black morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt to the spine, raised bands, marbled swirling black fog endpapers, top edge gilt, original Gothic gilt illustrated cloth cover and spine preserved at rear.   Condition: Fine in fine binding   Ref: 111971   Price: HK$ 18,000