Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 268

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
STOKER, BRAM. Dracula. 8vo, original yellow cloth, lettered and ruled in red on covers and spine, spine darkened, scattered soiling, rubbing to spine foot and corners; hinges tender but sound, closed tear to title repaired. Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1897

Additional Details

first edition, first issue. The last text page is numbered "390," and is followed only by an integral blank leaf. No ad for "The Shoulder of Shasta" follows the last text page, nor is the text followed by ads of any kind. (Later issues had ads after the text.) Dalby 10(a); Bleiler Checklist, p. 187. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.