Stoker (Bram) Dracula, first abridged paperback edition, half-title, light marginal toning, final page lightly spotted with some short marginal tears, this issue with advertisement to inner lower cover, original pictorial wrappers, light browning and rubbing, blue crayon marking to upper wrapper, creased, nicks to extremities, 8vo, 1901.

⁂ The rare first paperback edition, only a handful of copies known featuring the first printed illustration of Dracula. Stoker oversaw the abridgment himself, cutting around 15% from the original text. He also approved the illustration which includes many of the classic features (pointed ears, receding hair and bat-like cape) that define the character today.