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Under the Sunset
by STOKER, Bram
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, 1882. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition, first issue. Quarto. 190pp., plus four pages of ads. Parchment over beveled boards soiled, particularly at the edges, a few spots to the frontispiece tissue guard and with the paper of the front hinge split (but remarkably sound), suggesting it may have been mended, a good copy. Stoker's first book. This copy is Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Richard Butler from Bram Stoker 1887." At that time Butler was the editor of *The Referee*, a Sunday newspaper that combined coverage of two unlikely subjects: sports and theatre. In an interesting coincidence, Butler, writing as Richard Henry (with co-writer Henry Chance Newton), penned a Christmas burlesque for the 1887 holiday season entitled *Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim*. The production was, depending on the source, either a disaster that closed after one week or a hit that stretched into the next year. Either way it was during at this time that Stoker, then a theatrical manager and friend of Butler, likely signed this copy of his first book. An interesting association.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 541859
- Title
- Under the Sunset
- Author
- STOKER, Bram
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- AssociationCopy, FirstBook
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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