“Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table…”

Doyle, A. Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1902. Octavo, original gilt-decorated cloth. 

First edition of the most celebrated of all the Sherlock Holmes adventures, the only full-length Sherlock Holmes novel. With illustrations by Sidney Paget. Early ink signature to front free endpaper. Text clean, cloth clean, gilt bright.  Very neat repair to cloth at lower hinge, quite imperceptible.   A very handsome copy.