Dracula.

STOKER, Bram.

$65,000.00

Item Number: 148198

New York : Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899.

First American edition, first printing of this centerpiece of Gothic fiction. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, “T.C. McClure, from Bram Stoker January 13, 1900.” The recipient, T.C. McClure was the head of McClure’s Newspaper Syndicate, having inherited the mantle from his brother Samuel S. McClure, who along with Frank Doubleday founded Stoker‘s American publisher, Doubleday & McClure in 1897. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions are rare, association copies exceptionally so.

"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." In very good condition with cracking to the center of the spine.