Stoker (Bram) The Lair of the White Worm
£1,250
London, Rider, 1911.
First edition. 8vo. Original bright red ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, decorated in blind.
One of the slightly “fatter” copies, which we instinctively feel might denote an earlier part of the print run. A very handsome copy indeed of the book that is counted as second only to Dracula itself as showcasing Stoker’s extraordinary ability with the grisly and the horrifying.
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Some light bumping to spine ends and the merest lightening of the spine, something this book is prone to, a bump to the upper front corner, and a small scrape halfway down the fore-edge, none of which detracts from how clean and sharp a copy this is.
Pamela Colman Smith (she of the Tarot Cards) frontispiece with tissue guard, and five other absolutely crazed full page plates.
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