[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.

Folio. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, First Printing. SIGNED by Moser on the title-page.

[Accompanied by:] A dummy binding by the Harcourt bindery for the Pennyroyal Press limited edition of Moser’s Frankenstein, folio, quarter morocco. INSCRIBED BY MOSER: “This is a prototype of the Frankenstein binding from harcourt bindery that I gave to my daughter to use as a diary when she was in junior high school. Barry Moser.” Followed by 3 pp of diary entries including mentioning traveling with her father “for Poqipsee [sic] New York avec father. went to the house Wilderstien [sic], the house dad will be using for beauty & the beast,” and goes on to describe her own thoughts for a story.

[With:]

SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. The Annotated Frankenstein. With Introduction and Notes by Leonard Wolf. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977. 4to, original quarter cloth, with some sections highlighted by Moser indicating some references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Frankenstein (1983), also within the note at end on the illustrated editions of Frankenstein. Also with 9 other related works from Moser’s library on Frankenstein.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser

This lot is located in Chicago.

[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.