Adventures with Sherlock Holmes — The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles: another adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Loket, Czech Republic: Jarmila Jelena Sobotova
2006
Book
Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902, 4th impression. This one of a kind art re-binding of The Hound of the Baskervilles uses black goat skin, black frog skin, green fish skin and red calf skin to achieve its unusual effects.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a highly dramatic tale, set against the background of a wild English moor, and providing Holmes with a giant, spectral hound as a foe. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine 1901 to the delight of a reading public that hadn't seen a new Holmes tale in almost 8 years. It remains one of Holmes' best known adventures and is a popular choice for adaptations to film, graphic novels and other media.
Read hand-written letter from Arthur Conan Doyle (PDF, transcription included) to Herbert Greenhough Smith, ca. 1901. Conan Doyle discusses the business end of writing The Hound of the Baskervilles in this letter to his Strand editor.
Advertising broadsheet
1901
Broadsheet
This rare broadsheet was used to announce the first appearance of The Hound of the Baskervilles in The Strand Magazine in August, 1901.
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