DRACULA.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 1-378 [379-380: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial beige cloth, front panel stamped in tan, blue and gold, spine panel stamped in blue, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. 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. [Reference: 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 10b]. Bookplate of Christopher Clark Guest affixed to front paste down, mild darkening to spine, a clean, very good or better copy. Uncommon thus. (36135). Item #36135
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