Sink Your Teeth Into Dracula

Friday, 08 January 2010 00:00 Editor
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Bloomsbury Auctions Bibiliophile Sale on the 14th January features a number of first editions including a first edition, third state version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The book has an estimate of £600-£800.

Pictured right: Stoker (Bram) Dracula, first edition, third state, with ‘Shoulder of Shasta’ advertisement and publisher’s 16pp. catalogue at end, original canary yellow cloth blocked and lettered in red, covers darkened, rebacked with original spine laid down, new rear free endpaper, 8vo, 1897.

Other highlights of the Modern Editions section of the sale include:

Montgomery (Lucy Maud) The Blue Castle, first edition

Nabokov (Vladimir) Lolita, 2 vol. in one, first Israel edition, first hardback edition

Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition,

For more information visit bloomsburyauctions.com

Last Updated on Friday, 08 January 2010 21:32