Stoker (Bram)

Dracula,

first edition, first issue. Half-title, without the advert for The Shoulde3r of Shasta, but with the 8pp publisher’s catalogue at the end, printed on uncoated wove paper, original yellow cloth, lettered in yellow, spine darkened and lacking the top half with title and author lettering, covers finger marked, corners bumped and rubbed, later ownership inscription on front endpaper, and lacking rear end-paper, 8vo., 1897

*** His mother wrote on reading the book.-‘: "My dear, it is splendid, a thousand miles beyond anything you have written before, and I feel certain will place you very high in the writers of the day—the story and style being deeply sensational, exciting, and interesting ... No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."