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Lot 234
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$2,750
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Lot Description
STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897.
8vo. Half-title. (Lacking publisher's advertisements). Later olive cloth gilt.
FIRST EDITION of Stoker's "deeply sensational, exciting and interesting" novel (Charlotte Stoker). "The very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years...there is never an anticlimax" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (1987), p. 187.