Stoker (Bram) Dracula
£595
London, Constable, 1901.
First abridged edition, printed in double column; bound with Doyle (Arthur Conan) The Sign of Four, 1899; Maclaren (Ian) The Days of Auld Lang Syne, 1901; [Russell (William Clark, pseud. John Watson) A Strange Voyage], [c.1900]. 8vo. Together in contemporary dark cloth.
A decent sammelband of Victorian literature including the scarce abridged edition of Dracula, originally published in paperback. Stoker oversaw the abridgement himself, cutting around 15% from the original text.
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Anne & F.G. Renier (bookplate; children’s books and printed works on paper collectors).
Frontispiece to The Days of Auld Lang Syne.
Manuscript index; Dracula lacking half-title and advertisements, bound-in without wrappers; A Strange Voyage lacking title and 2 other preliminary leaves; some browning to margins, contents shaky with some leaves working loose; cloth with minor rubbing and marking.
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