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Stock# 103150
Description
Rare first edition, first issue
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called the book, "the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years. It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so a long a book there is never an anticlimax."
Condition Description
Octavo. Original publisher's yellow cloth, stamped and ruled in red. Uncut (deckled edges).
[8], [1]-390. A4, B-2B8, 2C3. With half-title on A1, "Books by the Same Author" on verso and without terminal publisher's advertisements. Housed in custom full yellow morocco clamshell case.
[8], [1]-390. A4, B-2B8, 2C3. With half-title on A1, "Books by the Same Author" on verso and without terminal publisher's advertisements. Housed in custom full yellow morocco clamshell case.
Reference
Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (1978), p.187; Dalby 10(a); Bram Stoker's Dracula : a Centennial Exhibition (1997: Philadelphia, Pa.)