Dracula ~ by BRAM STOKER ~ First Edition ~ 1st ~ 1897 ~ VAMPIRE

Description: Dracula by Bram Stoker First edition, second [or third] printing with a letter from the author Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition, second (or third) printing. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth lettered and ruled in crimson. pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x] [1] 2-390 [391: blank] [392: ad for The Shoulder of Shasta] [note: the dedication leaf is tipped in and not part of gathering (A)] + [16]-page catalogue dated 1898 on page 1 inserted at rear. Very Good with darkening to spine, cloth mottled and worn at extremities with rubbing to lettering and heavy soiling, glue repair to front inner hinge. Offsetting to endsheets, contents with several marginal chips and corner creases. Laid in is a 1 p. handwritten letter from Stoker dated 24.3.08. Bibliographically, a complex book: this copy is part of the second printing (or third printing) which printed an advertisement for Stoker's The Shoulder of Shasta on page [392] -- this page is blank in all first printing copies. According to Dalby 10c, this is the "third issue of [the] first edition," but it is a later printing, not a later issue. The most famous and influential of all vampire novels.

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Location: Portland, Oregon

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