3,000 copies of Dracula were sent to bookstores on, and although reviews were mixed, Stoker's mother Charlotte wrote to him: "My dear, it is splendid, a thousand miles beyond anything you have written before, and I feel certain will place you very high in the writers of the day-the story and style being deeply sensational, exciting and interesting. Stoker's letter confirms and expands a print run, likely a program or souvenir relating to a theatrical production.Īccording to Bram Stoker's son Noel, the genesis of Dracula was a terrifying dream about a vampire king rising from his tomb, brought on by eating too much lobster. The letters from both authors included in the lot relate to their publishing activity. When Stoker proposed that he dedicate the book to his "dear friend Hommy-Beg," he wrote to Caine that "if the book is ever worth remembering it will be well understood what is meant" (23 February 1897). Bram Stoker first met the wildly popular novelist Hall Caine through their mutual friend Henry Irving. The first issue is without the advertisement for Stoker's The Shoulder of Shasta on page the present is the variant with 8-page publisher's catalogue at end and the main body of text printed on uncoated wove paper. London: Archibald Constable, 1897.įirst edition, first issue, with correspondence from Bram Stoker and from the book's dedicatee "Hommy-Beg," aka Hall Caine.
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