8vo. Half-title, monochrome frontispiece and 15 monochrome plates by Sidney Paget. (Pale spots to a few leaves.) Original pictorial red cloth gilt by Alfred Garth Jones (spine slightly faded and wrinkled, some pale spotting to endleaves).

FIRST EDITION in book form, with the misprint "you" for "your" on p.13. The Hound of the Baskervilles marked the return of Sherlock Holmes after his disappearance over Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem," published 1893, which Doyle described as the "inevitable relapse after repentance."  De Waal 87; Green & Gibson A26.