DRACULA. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
New York: Bedrick / Blackie, [1988]. First American Edition With These Illustrations. Octavo, original black boards lettered in gilt on spine. 379 pp, illustrated throughout with vignettes and full page plates in black & white, plus dust jacket artwork, all by by the great Charles Keeping, Previous owner's small exlibris ticket to front paste-down underneath the dust jacket flap else a fine copy in like dust jacket. A strikingly illustrated new edition of the Gothic classic bound and printed on high quality stock. Item #314653
¶ The most famous and influential of all vampire novels. "Although it is based in part on the crude VARNEY, THE VAMPIRE and the superior "Carmilla" by LeFanu, DRACULA remains the definitive treatment of the classical vampire, a work of great imagination and conviction. While it is generally conceded that it has technical weaknesses -- wooden characters, sentimental writing, needless complexity -- its virtues overweigh its flaws and it is one of the great classics of supernatural fiction," - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1546.
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