The Sign of the Spider

An Episode


First published in London in 1896 by Methuen and Company, with 4 illustrations.

First published in New York in 1897 by Dodd Mead.

An ad for THE SIGN OF THE SPIDER  in the October 9, 1896 issue of The Bookseller

An ad for in the November 6, 1896 issue of THE BOOKSELLER

My copy of the first printing of the British first edition

My copy of the British second edition, but in reality a second printing of the first edition

The Second Edition title-page

Frontispiece of the first British edition

Additional illustrations

Ads at the end of my "SECOND EDITION" are dated October 1896

Below: the front cover of the first American edition, not mine

Below: the title-page of the American first edition

Below are photos of various British Methuen "editions"

A copy with 1897 and THIRD EDITION on its title-page, and with ads at the end dated November 1896

Brian Stringer's copy with 1896 on its title-page, no mention on its title-page of it being a specific edition, but with ads at the end dated March 1897

Brian Stringer's copy with 1897 and FOURTH EDITION on its title-page, and ads at the end dated September 1897

A copy with 1897 and FOURTH EDITION and "Colonial Edition" on its title-page, and ads at the end dated [?]

Brian Stringer's copy with 1896 and "Colonial Library" on its title-page, but with ads at the end dated February 1898

Brian Stringer's copy with NINTH EDITION on its title-page, and a printing history on the copyright page