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First edition in a period custom binding of 1/2 black morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, spine panel lettered in gilt and with 5 raised bands, speckled text block edges (original wraps not retained). Slight surface scuff to leather on top back cover corner, a few areas of rubbing with exposure along cover edges (leather fully intact). Endpapers mildly tanned, with offsetting from wrapped leather corners. Initial signatures (through p. 40) slightly projecting along fore-edge, all leaves firmly bound. Clean, unmarked interior. [viii],138 pp., no ads at rear. 1st edition, preceding the London edition, in a handsome binding dating nearly to original publication, first issue with 7 1/4" tall text block, boards just a hair shy of 7 1/2".

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.