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Date d'édition : 2022
Vendeur : S N Books World, Delhi, Inde
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Leatherbound. Etat : NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1894 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 328 Language: English Pages: 328.
Edité par Richard Edward King, London, 1890
Vendeur : Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Irlande
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. A new edition, undated but around 1890. A very good tight copy in red cloth, light foxing to prelims and browning to the paper due to the paper quality, but about as good as can be expected.
Edité par London, Richard Edward King, Ltd, no date
Vendeur : Little Owl Books, Norwich, NORFO, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. H/B red cloth bds, Good, a little age-darkened, spine ends and corners sl. rubbed, small faded patch at rear, contents sound and tight, pges tanned, some age-spotting, front hinge cracked, fep missing, neat name printed on front paste-down. A scarce title.
Edité par Charles B. Reed, New York, 1894
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5-178 [179-182: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, orange marbled endpapers. First edition. Published four years later in England as A SOUL ON FIRE (London: Bliss Sands & Co., 1898). Sensational spiritualist romance of after death experiences; a salutary warning to a cold, callous savant to mend his ways, in the tradition of Dickens's moral ghost stories; also a polemic presenting many of the author's enthusiastic views on moral and social questions e.g. vivisection, parental care, etc. A prolific author with some ninety novels to her credit, Florence Marryat (1838-1899) was the youngest and eleventh child of Frederick Marryat, the popular nineteenth-century nautical novelist. "A Catholic, Marryat was fascinated by spiritualism which she frequently introduces into her novels. As a spiritualist she wrote the popular book THERE IS NO DEATH (1891)." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 412. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 151 (citing the 1898 UK edition). Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 351. Bleiler (1978), p. 133. Reginald 09685. Spine panel lightly sunned, a nearly fine copy. An uncommon book. (#136066).
Edité par Hutchinson & Co., London, 1897
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-345 [346-348: ads], publisher's pictorial reddish brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The alleged vampire is 21-year-old Harriet Brandt. The 'blood' of the title is metonomous for 'heredity,' and refers to the rumor that Harriet's grandmother, a Jamaican slave, was bitten by a vampire bat while pregnant with Harriet's mother. Thus, the novel takes on as its central theme the power of heredity versus that of later nurturing and free will. It poses the question: is Harriet, despite her many charms and good intentions, tainted irredeemably with the blood of the vampire? She inherits bad blood also from her father, an Englishman who had been kicked out of medical school in Switzerland for unauthorized and deadly experiments in vivisection. He moved to Jamaica, a wealthy and unscrupulous man, and continued his experiments on animals - and on the slaves, as well. He impregnated, but did not marry, a sadistic and gluttonous half-caste who practiced obeah, according to the slaves. Harriet does indeed seem to be a psychic vampire, though against her own will. People who get close to her die, including children and her husband, and she eventually commits suicide in despair. A sophisticated variation on traditional vampire motifs, which found expression that same year, more famously, in DRACULA." Bleiler (1978), p. 133. Reginald 09684. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 351. Some fading to spine and edges of front and rear covers, a very good copy. A very nice copy of a very scarce book. In custom red cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. (#154918).