Stoker (Bram) The Mystery of the Sea
£250
London, William Rider, 1922.
‘New Edition’. 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in lighter blue. Dust-jacket.
Rare jacketed edition of Stoker’s gripping tale of secrets and supernatural forces set against the treacherous backdrop of a coastal town, where a writer becomes entangled in a mysterious love affair and unearths a haunting truth.
Internally very good; cloth slightly bumping and rubbing; jacket toned at spine and quite badly worn and chipped.
Jacket artwork by Holloway.
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