Dracula. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American Edition. Pp 378, uncut. Publisher’s full beige cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in blue, featuring illustration of Dracula’s Castle blocked to centre of upper cover. Light shelf wear to covers, faint water marks to front & rear endpapers with neat ownership name to front free endpaper. Contents in fine bright condition. Housed in collector’s solander box.

First published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897, this first American edition appeared in 1899.

Having written what was to become the most famous Gothic horror novel of all time, Stoker died on 20th April 1912, not long enough to see Dracula’s immense cultural impact, and its many permutations in print and on the screen.