Stoker, Bram
Rare books by Bram Stoker, including first editions and signed and finely bound copies of Dracula and other novels.
Bram Stoker (1847–1912) was an Irish theatre manager and gothic novelist, the author of Dracula and creator of the modern vampire genre. As an amateur theatre critic he became friends with Henry Irving, who made him the manager of the Lyceum in 1878. Successful in his career, Stoker had time to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional author. He had published his first novella, “The Primrose Path” in a periodical in 1875, and his first book, a guidebook for Irish civil servants, in 1879. He followed these with a number of works, including three adventure novels published between 1891 and 1895. In 1890 he began writing a story about a vampire based loosely on history, folktales, and older horror literature. Published in 1897, Dracula was an immediate success and went through 11 printings in its author’s lifetime. Stoker wrote a further ten books, but it was Dracula, with its combination of gothic horror and late Victorian moral and sexual concerns, that has retained its hold on the public’s imagination.
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula. 1897
£125,000
First edition, scarce first issue published in May 1897, with no advertisements as issued and printed on slightly thicker stock. Presentation copy to Mrs W. S. Gilbert, with the...
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to both boards and spine in red within a one-line red rule border, all edges untrimmed. Custom black cloth folding case, spine... Read more
STOKER, Bram.
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving. 1906
£875
First Edition, First Impressions. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, "Edward Cooper Bentham from Bram Stoker 15.9.10"....
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles and decoration to upper boards and spines gilt, all edges untrimmed. Illustrated. Endpapers rather browned, spines... Read more
STOKER, Bram.
The Lair of The White Worm. 1911
£500
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Colour frontispiece and 5 plates, with 16pp publisher's adverts at end. Small splits to cloth at... Read more
STOKER, Bram.
The Lair of the White Worm. 1911.
£395
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Recent burgundy morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With a colour frontispiece. A... Read more
