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London: Longmans, Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus, 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three First Edition books bound in one volume, consecutively Underwoods, Chatto and Windus 1887; The Dynamiter, Longmans, Green & Co. 1885, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Longmans, Green & Co, 1886. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, the bookplate of the Constitutional Club Library at front paste down. The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club, established in 1883 and disbanded in 1979, that was closely aligned with the Conservative Party and at one time counted P.G. Wodehouse as a member.. Very Good, horizontal closed tear at p. 109 of The Dynamiter, boards rubbed, occasional widely scattered toning. xv, 138, (1), half-title, 207, title, 141 pp. Basis for every Dr. Jekyll movie..

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.

First editions of 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1886 can be identified by their binding, which is usually in a brownish-red cloth with gilt lettering, and the date printed on the title page.