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STOKER, Bram (1847–1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. 8vo. Half-title. (Lacking advertisements and integral blank leaf at rear). Modern half red morocco, marbled boards, gilt–lettered spine. Provenance: Mary Fridall (ownership signature dated October 1898). FIRST EDITION of Stoker's “deeply sensational, exciting and interesting” novel (Charlotte Stoker) was described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as “the very best story of diablerie which I have read for many years...there is never an anticlimax.” Bleiler, The Checklist of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction (1987), p. 187.