8vo. Half-title, monochrome frontispiece and 15 monochrome plates by Sidney Paget. (Pale spots to a few leaves, some minor creasing.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, original red cloth front cover and spine bound in at rear.

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.