Dracula's Guest anf Other Weird Stories (1920)
The twelfth impression of Bram Stoker's posthumous collection of tales
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Printing Details
First edition, twelfth impression*. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with black printed titling and design to spine and upper board. 19 × 12.5cm, 200pp. * Routledge printed 13 impressions of Dracula's Guest, starting in 1914 and about 1922.
A collection of short stories by Bram Stoker. He had died in 1912, and his widow Florence took these short stories to Routledge for publication. The main point of interest being the titular story (Dracula's Guest) which had originally been written as the opening chapter of Stoker's 1897 classic, Dracula, but was cut to shorten the text.
In Dracula's Guest, an unnamed English tourist (assumed to be Jonathan Harker) wanders off near Munich on Walpurgis Night despite local warnings. He shelters in a cemetery during a blizzard, encounters the tomb of a vampiric aristocrat (Countess Dolingen), and is saved from freezing by a giant wolf crouching on his chest—only to discover Count Dracula arranged the rescue from afar.
The other stories are: The Judge's House; The Squaw; The Secret of the Growing Gold; The Gipsy Prophecy; The Coming of Abel Behenna; The Burial of the Rats; A Dream of Red Hands; and Crooken Sands.
Condition
A fair copy but remaining in strong readable condition. The red cloth is faded to the spine with fraying to the rear joint and creasing / tearing to the spine ends. Slight mark to rear board, minor rubbing and bumping to the corners. The contents are in good condition, with two pages (47 & 87) with the bottom corner torn off but not affecting text, perhaps as a page marker, and pages 89, 103, 105, and 121 with a much small bottom corner tip torn off. Three previous owner's names (two to the ffep, one to the rear pastedown). A little corner creasing, and light tanning but only what would be expected of a book of this date and publication of this quality.
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Price
£85.00
