title: The Hound of the Baskervilles (SHERLOCK HOLMES)
author: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
description: BEAUTIFUL BRAND NEW. NO REMINDER MARKS. VERY NICE END PAGES. VERY NICE JACKET NICE ILLUSTRATIONS. FIRST ISSUED 1902. THIS COPYRIGHT 1994. ISSUED ABOUT 1995.
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  The Hound of the 
  Baskervilles
  By Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  The Hound of the Baskervilles
  
  Chapter 1  
   
  Mr. Sherlock Holmes 
  M
  r. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the 
  mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions 
  when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. 
  I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which 
  our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a 
  fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which 
  is known as a ‘Penang lawyer.’ Just under the head was a 
  broad silver band nearly an inch across. ‘To James Mortim-
  er, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,’ was engraved 
  upon it, with the date ‘1884.’ It was just such a stick as the 
  old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, 
  solid, and reassuring.
  ‘Well, Watson, what do you make of it?’
  Holmes was sitting with his