Stoker (Bram) Dracula
£750
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, [1930s].
Film tie-in edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
An important edition of Stoker’s gothic masterpiece, tying in with the famous Bela Lugosi film.
Out of stock
Cloth a little bumped and sunned in a couple of place, otherwise very good. Jacket uniformly sunned and worn with tape repair to head of spine and some red-run from the cloth.
Photographic plates from the Bela Lugosi film.
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