Dracula.
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights": First Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula.
STOKER, Bram.
$7,500.00
Item Number: 145585
New York : Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899.
First American edition, first printing of this centerpiece of Gothic fiction. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial cloth, uncut. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, crown and foot of the spine, a loss to the spine.
"Those who cannot find their own reflection in Bram Stoker's still-living creation are surely the undead" (New York Times Review of Books). Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."
