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THE MAN WHO WROTE DRACULA: A BIOGRAPHY OF BRAM STOKER.
London: Michael Joseph, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Written by Stoker's great nephew.
THE MAN WHO WROTE DRACULA: A BIOGRAPHY OF BRAM STOKER.
London: Michael Joseph, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Written by Stoker's great nephew.
DRACULA ... With illustrations from the Universal Picture Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 1-354 [355-356: ads], four inserted plates with film stills, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black. Later edition. Photoplay edition with four stills from the 1931 Universal Pictures film of DRACULA directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi.
DRACULA.
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x] [1] 2-390 [391-392: blank; no ad for The Shoulder of Shasta on page (392)] [note: dedication leaf is tipped in and not part of gathering (A)] + 8-page publisher's catalogue (printed on laid paper; page 1 advertising Meredith's The Amazing Marriage and no mention of Dracula) inserted at rear, sheets bulk 26 mm, original mustard cloth, front, spine, and rear panels stamped in red, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing. This copy agrees in all respects (except presence of inserted catalogue) with the copy described in Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 207 (as revised in A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 151). Bibliographically, a complex book, this version (rough mustard cloth, sheets bulking 26 mm, no ad on page [392]) is generally considered to be the first printing, although copies without an inserted catalogue may have been distributed earlier and currently are considered more desirable than those with this 8-page contemporary catalogue (which has no mention of DRACULA). The most famous and influential of all vampire novels. "Although it is based in part on the crude VARNEY, THE VAMPIRE and the superior Carmilla by LeFanu, Dracula remains the definitive treatment of the classical vampire, a work of great imagination and conviction. While it is generally conceded that it has technical weaknesses - wooden characters, sentimental writing, needless complexity - its virtues overweigh its flaws and it is one of the great classics of supernatural fiction." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1546. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 167-68. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-186. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, pp. 375-81. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 21. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 404-06. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 404-09. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13726. Dalby 10a. Wolff 6581a.
FAMOUS IMPOSTORS.
New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Ten areas covered of historical impostors.
THE JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-310 [311] [312: blank], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated dark gray cloth, front panel stamped in light green and silver, spine panel stamped in light green. First U.S. edition. "Occult romance involving an attempt to revivify the mummy of an ancient Egyptian Queen." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-188. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1548. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 405. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13729. Dalby 14b.
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA: A NOVEL ...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-498 [499-500: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Stoker dated 22 March 1902, a week prior to publication date (29 March 1902) on front free endpaper: "My dear Elizabeth (Newbery?) / with love & greetings / Bram Stoker / 22.3.02." The Doubleday, Page edition preceded the British Heinemann edition by several months. Ingenious romantic adventure novel "set in Cruden Bay, involving a gun battle at sea, a castle with secret passages, and coded writing based on a cipher described by Francis Bacon." - Dalby, p. 38. "I found the story admirable. It has not the fearsomeness of 'DRACULA' but it is beautifully handled and the girl very admirable indeed ... I've done a bit in cryptograms myself, but that knocks me out!" - Arthur Conan Doyle. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1547. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13732. Dalby 13a.
UNDER THE SUNSET ...
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882 [i.e. November 1881]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-190 [191: printer's imprint] [192: blank], six inserted plates plus 27 other illustrations in text, some full page, by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn, original cream imitation vellum over bevel-edged wooden boards, front and spine panels stamped in red and gold, rear panel stamped in red, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in gold, a.e.g. First edition. The author's first book of fiction. A collection of eight grim fantasy tales. "The whole was somewhat stern stuff for children, especially with some weird illustrations by Fitzgerald and Cockburn that depicted, among others, the ghastly spectral plague, a blood-spattered giant, and the terrible kingdom of the King of Death ... It did not make much money but it brought quite a lot of notice." - Ludlam, A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker (1962), pp. 61-2. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-149. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 207. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 404. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13733. Dalby 3a.