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STOKER, BRAM.

Dracula.

8vo,

publisher’s orange cloth, boards mottled,

heaviest to rear; unclipped dust jacket, 3

cellotape repairs on verso, folds rubbed,

shallow chipping to spine panel ends not

touching letters, closed tear along lower

front flap fold, modest tanning and dust-

soiling; small ownership stamp to front

flyleaf with additional ownership signature

to title.

NewYork: Grosset & Dunlap, (1897)

[i.e. 1927]

[500/750]

FIRST STAGE

-

PLAY EDITION

,

first state listing

eight J.S. Fletcher titles in the one page adver-

tisement at rear.

250

STOKER, BRAM.

The Lair of

the White Worm.

6 color plates by

Pamela Colman Smith. 4 pages of adver-

tisements, 16 page publisher’s catalog at

rear. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, spine and

front board lettered in gilt and stamped in

blind, rear board soiled; some spotting to

prelims, otherwise contents generally

clean;

1

/

4

morocco drop-back case.

FIRST

EDITION

.

London:William Rider and Son, (1911)

[600/900]

WITH

-

Under the Sunset. Illustrations by W.

Fitzgerald and W.V. Cockburn, including six

inserted engraved plates. 8vo, later brown buck-

ram, all edges gilt. First edition of Stoker’s first

book. London, 1882.

248

STOKER, BRAM.

Dracula.

Illustrated with 4 photo plates of stills

from the 1931 Universal Pictures film.

8vo, publisher’s red cloth, spine leaning

slightly with soft vertical crease; dust

jacket, chips to outer corners of front

panel, smaller chips to spine panel tips, just

touching two letters, toned, few short

closed tears and some creasing; ownership

signature on front flyleaf, light foxing to

fore- and bottom-edges.

NewYork: Grosset & Dunlap, (1897)

[i.e. 1931)

[1,000/1,500]

FIRST PHOTOPLAY EDITION

,

issued to coin-

cide with the release of the Universal film.With

a Signed card by Bela Lugosi loosely inserted.