Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Frontispiece by Sidney Paget. 8vo, publisher's red cloth stamped in white, spine titles faded, light wear to spine tips; dust jacket, spine panel darkened, dust-soiling, verso tissue-backed, closed tears and chips, cellotape mend to spine panel head, rear flap trimmed close nearly touching letters; ownership signature on front flyleaf, LMS booklabel to front pastedown; housed in custom fleece-lined cloth slipcase. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1902)

Additional Details

first american edition, the first printing of the fourth impression, with the misprint "Fonrth Impression" on the copyright page. Called A Special Limited Edition, produced by Grosset and Dunlap using the stereo-plates from the original publisher McClure. This copy in the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. Green and Gibson A26c.iv.