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Vampire
by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
-
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
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 are those other qualities which have caused so many critics to compare his work to that of Baudelaire and Poe. Book is rare and very collectible.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13256
- Title
- Vampire
- Author
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Format/Binding
- Bound in red cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First Edition, Vampire, Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oshtemo Book Sellers
Biblio member since 2017
Kalamazoo, Michigan
About Oshtemo Book Sellers
Rare finds with an emphasis on fiction, art, and signed first-editions. Oshtemo Book Sellers has an eye for quality and quirk.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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