Lot 35
Stoker, Bram
Dracula
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
[London] Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1901. 8vo (21.5 x 14.8cm), original pictorial wrappers, 144 pp. (pp. 139-144 advertisements), half-title, text printed in double column, wrappers mottled, slightly damp-stained and with pencilled ownership inscriptions, front wrapper detached, minor loss to foot of spine, textblock browned
Footnote
First paperback edition, the third overall, and the first to contain an illustration of Dracula, in the form of the dramatic vignette on the front cover, which depicts Dracula crawling down the side of his castle. The text is substantially abridged from preceding editions. Critical opinion is not unanimous on the authorship or outcome of the revisions, though they are often assumed to be the work of Stoker himself, including vampire literature experts Robert Eighteen-Bisang and J. Gordon Melton, who considered that ‘the revised text deletes or abridges many the lengthy descriptions and conversations that dominate the text, and corrects a few errors in the first edition. The fact that Stoker himself made these changes affords scholars a unique, stereoscopic view into the author’s original intentions' (Dracula in Visual Media, 2011, p. 268).