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DRACULA by Bram Stoker Grosset Dunlap, Play Edition, 1928 Condition: Near Very Good in VG- dust jacket One of THE classic horror novels, DRACULA was first published in 1897. Thirty years later, it was adapted as a play and began its eight-month run on Broadway, with Bela Lugosi as the Count. During that run, this edition of DRACULA was published, with an endorsement of the play on the back cover of the dust jacket. It was another three years before the Lugosi movie version gave the story its greatest fame to date. This play edition is especially noted for the "large eyes staring over the sleeping woman" jacket cover (another reason why the presence of the dj is so important for the collector). An ad at the back lists 14 detective books by J. S. Fletcher. This copy has modest cover corner bumping and wear, light spine "creasing" and wrinkling at spine ends, small, light front cover ink stain, small ink "dots" here and there in upper margin of some pages (probably made during the printing process), very light writing on top page edges, short, light creasing on just a few pages and two instances where webbing can just be seem in gutter between pages. But the book's binding is overall secure, including the hinges, which are solid. No writing in book (except on former owner's bookplate on front pastedown), and pages are only lightly toned. The jacket has a few edge tears (up to an inch long); wear at the top and bottom of the folds and the middle of the front fold, and there's a small stain at the top of the back cover. Free postal insurance, as well as free shipping, with this book.