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Bram Stoker Dracula INSCRIBED!

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:7,500.00 USD Estimated At:30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD
Bram Stoker Dracula INSCRIBED!
<B>Bram Stoker <I>Dracula</B></I></B></I> (Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897), first edition, 3rd issue (with the Shoulder of Shasta advertisement following the text on page 392), 390 pages, 8vo (5.5" x 8"), original mustard cloth boards with red lettering and design. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "<I>To J. J. Thomson With Best Wishes Bram Stoker 18. Nov 1899</B></I>". The J. J. Thomson in question may be the renowned English physicist who was the Honorary Professor of Physics, Cambridge and Royal Institution, London. In 1906, he won the Nobel Prize for physics. Accompanying the book is a beautiful and unique hand-made leather slipcase and box by the legendary bookbinders of Sangorski & Sutcliffe with their anthemion located on the bottom of the back cover. This distinguished binding firm, established in 1901 and famed for their elaborate and original bindings worked with gilt fittings and precious stones, is perhaps best known as the creator of a magnificent, jewel-encrusted binding of Omar Khayyam's <I>Rubaiyait</B></I> which, having taken two years to complete, was lost in 1912 with the sinking of the <I>Titanic.</B></I> The slipcase is supple black leather with applied white leather to form the stark image of Count Dracula about to feast on the neck of Mina Harker. The slipcase is fully enclosed in a custom box of similar black leather with impressed title lettering on the spine. The case and slipcase are, themselves, a work of art. Though early editions of this book are rarely found, they are typically in rather poor condition. This copy, however, is in very good condition with the typical darkening to the spine, some discoloration to the cover from handling, small areas of the cloth have come loose from the boards near the title area of the front cover, the front and rear hinges are broken but not separated, there is toning to the inside front cover and free front end paper as a result of contact with high-acid content paper (likely newspaper), and the book slightly canted. This is a unique opportunity to own a classic of the horror genre.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>) <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</
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