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New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1886. WorldCat has a 1887 printing by Frank F. Lovell and Co. in Lovell's Household Library, but none of this edition dated July 23, 1886. Only copy of the 1887 printing is at the Yale University Library. First published by Charles Scribner's Sons on January 5, 1886, preceding the London edition by four days. Softcover, original decorated printed wrappers. Very Good, light wear to wrappers mostly at spine where there is some cracking and bumping to spine ends, amount one inch loss at spine foot, very light wear to edges, wrapper darkened from sun, pages mostly clean with some foxing, pages agetoned heaviest around edges, some water damage and staining to inside edge of text block.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.