Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories
Original price
£6,500.00
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Original price
£6,500.00
Original price
£6,500.00
£6,500.00
-
£6,500.00
Current price
£6,500.00
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London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1914.
the first appearance of a new Dracula story
First edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. [8], 200. Red cloth, decorated and lettered in blind on upper cover. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Illustrated dustjacket in a later state with the price of 1/3net replaced with 2/- but in all other regards the jacket is the same as that of the first impression with its chilling illustration by Handforth. There is a split to the cloth at the joint with the lower cover and some fading to spine. The jacket is chipped at head and foot of spine and there is some creasing to top edge and chipping at the head and foot of the folds with the flaps. Internally there is a some foxing and marking but overall a very good copy in the rare and striking dustjacket.
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published two years after Stoker's death. As his widow Florence explains in the preface, Stoker had, at his death, three collections of short stories planned for publication. This was one of them although Florence did add to this set the long title story which she describes as "an hitherto unpublished episode from "Dracula"...originally excised owing to the length of the book". She hopes that the story "may prove of interest to the many readers of what is considered to be my husband's most remarkable work". This is thus the first appearance of this additional Dracula story.
