STOKER, Bram "Dracula" [Doubleday & McClure, 1899] 1st American Edition

STOKER, Bram. Dracula.

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American edition, first printing. 378pp. Newly bound in red leather with elaborate gilt decoration, hand-marbled endpapers, and red and gilt-spattered edges. Original textblock retains minor evidence of former library ownership, including a blind-embossed stamp on the title page, a “Discard” stamp at the lower corner of page 329, and a handful of additional marks throughout. Very Good- textblock in a new fine binding.

Custom binding executed by McCall Co. Bindery & Book Arts, with hand-marbled endpapers by Jemma Lewis Marbling and Design.

First published in London in 1897, Dracula is one of the most influential works of Gothic horror literature, introducing Count Dracula and establishing many of the conventions that would come to define the modern vampire. Told through letters, diary entries, newspaper clippings, and other documents, the novel follows Jonathan Harker, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and their companions as they confront the Transylvanian count. This first American edition, published two years after the London original, represents the novel’s introduction to American readers.