unused book from closed bookstore inventory with a little bit of wear; clean, tight and square, text is clean and unmarked, no spine crease, no tears, rear top corner is bumped and lightly creased, rear top corner tip is very bumped and creased, pages and inside covers are lightly yellowed

Synopsis

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men--the resurrectionists--whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity. Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Book Nook Monroe (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 502744
Title: Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Author: Ackroyd, Peter
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: first printing
ISBN 10: 0307473775
ISBN 13: 9780307473776
Publisher: Anchor Books
Place of Publication: New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 2010
Pages: 353
Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
Keywords: fiction, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, lord Byron, scientists, monsters, England social life and customs, 19th century
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction - General; Fiction - Historical;

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We were a small independent new & used bookstore established in 1969 in historic downtown Monroe, Michigan. As of September 2021 we have closed the store to the the public and have transitioned to on-line selling only. We are diligently (most days) trying to add hundreds & hundreds of (so far ignored) books in two storage units along with the new books left in our inventory. This is gonna take awhile - stay tuned.

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....