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Praed (Rosa Campbell) The Soul of Countess Adrian:
£495
A Romance
London, Trischler & Company, 1891.
‘Third Thousand’. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered & decorated in yellow.
A weird novel of supernatural possession in which the soul of the dead Countess Agnes Adrian, a femme fatale who has studied occultism in the East, displaces the soul of a young American actress; a kind of vampirism.
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Some rubbing to edges and corners.
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