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Independently published, 2018. Paperback. New. 368 pages. 8.98x6.06x1.10 inches.

The John Day Company, 1934. First edition in English. Orange cloth. Very good/Good. First English edition, very good hardcover shows rubbing to cover edges, light bumping to corners, bit of fray to spine head and top corners, light bit of soil to page edges and endpapers, and wrinkle and couple of closed tears at pages 215-216, in good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows soil, heavy rubbing, small open chip at front panel, and edgewear with open chipping and closed tears with heavy tape mending at jacket reverse. 363 pages. Solid copy that retains its attractive jacket though in a much loved state of this third in the Frank Braun trilogy that follows The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Alraune, which contains that "mysticism for which Mr. Ewers is famous.." and also contains "..those other qualities which have caused so many critics to compare his work to that of Baudelaire and Poe.

About this Item: John Day Company, New York, 1934. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Iconic first edition book is VERY GOOD. Book is tight and square and bound in orange cloth over boards. Spine lettering and blind stamp are black. Rare priced (2.50) dust jacket is finely and extensively repaired on the verso. There is a book plate of Allan C. Leverentz, critic and collector of apparently, as a stamp on the FFE states "Books of the Fantastic & Curious from the Collections of Allan C. Leverentz." Many believe this to be the finest novel from the pen of this distinguished German writer, Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) whose macabre creations, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Spider, blood and Alraune, have won for him a world wide audience. Vampire is the strange story of Frank Braun, and how he was cured of a mysterious disease by Lotte, his mistress who loved him more than life. That mysticism for which the author is famous is found in Vampire, as… Read More

A very good first edition in dust jacket.

JOHN DAY Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN SCARCE DJ..