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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [Classic Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 141; [1], blank; [1], ad; [1], blank. Publisher's buff paper wraps titled and decorated in blue and red. inside front cover advertises Longmans magazine/Walter Besant; advertising leaf at rear lists the second edition of 'A Child's Garden of Verses' at rear. Lacks rear cover and most of the paper spine. The first issue wrapper features an inked manuscript correction to the date; paper-bound issues precede the salmon-pink hardback copies by one week. Contents clean, contemporary ink name to half title, front cover a little edge worn, sewing exposed, fragile cover just holding. Despite to loss of rear panel, a very good copy. The classic mystery crime novel / horror story inspired by the case of the Edinburgh body snatchers Burke and Hare. One of Stevenson's most successful works. Involving a split personality it demonstrates how a seemingly good person can become…

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.