Stoker (Bram) Dracula
£4,250
London, Constable, 1897.
First edition, later issue with the Shoulder of Shasta advertisement following last page of text, followed by a 16-page publisher’s catalogue dated 1898. 8vo. Original canary yellow cloth blocked in red.
“Bram Stoker has given us the most remarkable scenes of horror… Dracula is a panting engine of late Victorian sexuality, a sexuality that has been barely sublimated into violence” (Stephen King).
A very good, unsophisticated example of this cornerstone title in any collection of horror fiction, “arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth century” (Leatherdale, Dracula: The Novel & the Legend, 11). Here printed on the thinner paper stock and with the 16-page catalogue and the Shoulder of Shasta ad at the rear.
Out of stock
Some light wear soiling to the spine tanned but red lettering still easily readable, no inscriptions, else a very good tight copy in the publisher’s original binding with unbroken inner hinges and with the red lettering and red rule on both the front and rear covers still prominent.
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