Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. First American Edition with the the R. Published March, 1902. Shelf and edge wear, scuffs, rubbing, staining and fading to the cover. Inside front piece is loosen but still intact. Book is cocked.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. McClure, Phillips & Co, New York, 1902.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American edition, third state, with the title leaf tipped-on to a stub, "Illustrated" on the title page, and "Published March, 1902, R" on the copyright page. Red cloth lettered and decorated in white. Neat owner name and bookplate on front endpapers, frontispiece loose and laid in with another illustration starting to become loose, spine sunned with tiny chips at the ends, good only. This printing was originally intended for publication in Canada, but was kept in the U.S. because of high demand (hence the cancel title page).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1902.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, second issue; 1902 on title page, illustrated not on title page, title page is not a cancel, 1902R on copyright page & 8pps. of ads. Slight wear to extremities, slight spotting, rubbing & sunning to spine, very slight flaking to white text on spine. Overall a very good copy.
Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$966.20 + shipping
Description: [Detective fiction] FIRST ISSUE (of four), of the First American edition, without the 'R' on the copyright page. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 249; [1], blank; [8], advertisements; [2], blank. Title page printed in black and red. With eight black and white illustrated plates by Sidney Paget, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in half red oasis morocco over matching buckram sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, black leather title label, cream endpapers, neat bookseller ticket. A clean, fine copy, inside and out. Green and Gibson A26c, page 122.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1902.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing without the "R" on the copyright page. Later issues have the "R" printed on the copyright page. The book is bound in the publisher's red cloth with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1902.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the 1902 date printed on the title page and NO "R" printed on the copyright page. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.