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True First Edition, published on January 5, 1886, preceding the London edition by 4 days. Originally published in yellow printed wrappers but now rebound in black boards with new endpapers and without the wrappers and ads in the back. One of the classics in English literature and a masterpiece in the horror tradition. 3000 wrappered copies were issued and are hard to find today. Beinicke 347. Near Fine.

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.