Title
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Coverage
New York
Publisher
McClure, Phillips & Co.
Date
1902
Subject
True first US edition
Description
Bengis hoped to find what he called a “perfect” Hound, a copy that had both “the full complement of pages” and the same copyright notice as in the dummy. I located such a volume in 2002, confirming the existence of a US Hound earlier than the previously bibliographically recognized “first state.” It contains the story’s complete text, all its illustrations, and the same copyright notice found in the dummy that marks it as an earlier printing than the volume traditionally accepted as the first. It is the true first state of the Hound in America.