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Stoker (Bram). Under the Sunset. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, London, 1882.
Price: US$500.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, first issue. 8vo. Original imitation cream vellum, lettered and stamped in red and gilt, edges gilt. The scarce first issue of the second edition, the work having been published the previous year, but here furnished with new and revised illustrations. A collection of fantasy stories set in a magical land called the Land Under the Sunset, which is located beyond the horizon. Internally very good; covers slightly worn and marked, darkened at spine.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Stoker, Bram. UNDER THE SUNSET. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, London, 1882.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pages. Frontis. Illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W.V. Cockburn. Imitation vellum covers are dusty with discoloration at middle of spine and partially on back cover; front hinge starting; edges are beveled; all edges gilt. Internally, very clean. Author's first book. Very good. (099)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
STOKER, Bram.. Under the Sunset.. Sampson Low, MArston, Searle, and Rivington, London, 1882.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. With illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn, including six inserted engraved plates with tissue overleaves (frontispiece tissue lacking) and other plates and text illustrations. 8vo, original bevelled vellum lettered and ruled in gold and red, a.e.g. First edition. 1-1/2" split to the bottom of the front joint; vellum lightly soiled; very slightly shaken; but still an attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
STOKER, Bram. Under the Sunset. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, London, 1882.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition, first issue. Quarto. 190pp., plus four pages of ads. Parchment over beveled boards soiled, particularly at the edges, a few spots to the frontispiece tissue guard and with the paper of the front hinge split (but remarkably sound), suggesting it may have been mended, a good copy. Stoker's first book. This copy is Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Richard Butler from Bram Stoker 1887." At that time Butler was the editor of *The Referee*, a Sunday newspaper that combined coverage of two unlikely subjects: sports and theatre. In an interesting coincidence, Butler, writing as Richard Henry (with co-writer Henry Chance Newton), penned a Christmas burlesque for the 1887 holiday season entitled *Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim*. The production was, depending on the source, either a disaster that closed after one week or a hit that stretched into the next year. Either way it was during at this time that Stoker, then a theatrical manager and friend of Butler, likely signed this copy of his first book. An interesting association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.