Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Incredibly scarce first [British] edition, second issue of Dracula, Westminster, England: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.75, 390 pages. Book condition: G+/None. Original yellow cloth-covered boards with orange lettering to cover and spine, front board outlined in orange box; spine sunned; exterior and margins of a few pages soiled; light foxing to textblock edges and a few pages; front and rear hinges neatly repaired; few interior hinges cracked; previous owner’s gift inscription to ffep. Rear flyleaf bears The Shoulder of Shasta ad; no additional publisher’s catalog included. In protective mylar sleeve, housed in a red cloth chemise and quarter red morocco and cloth slipcase with gilt lettering and raised bands to spine. ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.75, Lyceum Theatre letterhead, September 19, 1891. A letter to London publisher William Heinemann. In full: “I enclose some of the pictures which Miss Terry has 1. photo ET [Ellen Terry] on drum & Kate Terry with eyeglass. 2. photo E.T. sitting as boy with black trousers 85 woman with eyeglass. 3. photo E.T. a boy young woman holding hand 4. pencil drawing Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth. 5. pen 85 ink drawing H.I. [Henry Irving] by Bastien Lepage. 6. letter of Charles Kean. 7. book with etching of E.T. Miss Terry values these very much such as they are & of course they will be kept safe & not injured. 4 & 5 are really valuable. Please let me have a line in acknowledgement.” Letter is in very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, a small separation to spine, and horizontal fold through portion of first name of signature. This letter was written to Heinemann the year before he started his publishing company.
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