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Gothic Horror.- [Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, second issue, with title reset removing Byron's name, half-title, later state of p.36 with "a" in "almost" aligned, without 12pp. advertisements at end, disbound but with original stitching intact, [Wise p.96; Wolff 5577; Summers p.21], for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
*** First edition of the first vampire story in English, written by John Polidori, Byron's friend and later secretary. The first issue with a Colburn imprint, attributed the work to Byron, who quickly refuted the attribution in a famous letter to Galignani. The genesis for Polidori's tale occurred on the very same evening that Mary Shelley conceived her own horror masterpiece, Frankenstein, when Byron proposed an evening of ghost story writing at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/b6ccf8e3-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/59dd6629-a891-ee11-817b-6045bdfc47ac.webp "71
Gothic Horror.- [Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, second issue, with title reset removing Byron's name, half-title, later state of p.36 with \"a\" in \"almost\" aligned, without 12pp. advertisements at end, disbound but with original stitching intact, [Wise p.96; Wolff 5577; Summers p.21], for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
*** First edition of the first vampire story in English, written by John Polidori, Byron's friend and later secretary. The first issue with a Colburn imprint, attributed the work to Byron, who quickly refuted the attribution in a famous letter to Galignani. The genesis for Polidori's tale occurred on the very same evening that Mary Shelley conceived her own horror masterpiece, Frankenstein, when Byron proposed an evening of ghost story writing at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816.")
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Gothic Horror.- [Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, second issue, with title reset removing Byron's name, half-title, later state of p.36 with "a" in "almost" aligned, without 12pp. advertisements at end, disbound but with original stitching intact, [Wise p.96; Wolff 5577; Summers p.21], for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
⁂ First edition of the first vampire story in English, written by John Polidori, Byron's friend and later secretary. The first issue with a Colburn imprint, attributed the work to Byron, who quickly refuted the attribution in a famous letter to Galignani. The genesis for Polidori's tale occurred on the very same evening that Mary Shelley conceived her own horror masterpiece, Frankenstein, when Byron proposed an evening of ghost story writing at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816.
Lot 71
Gothic Horror.- Polidori (John) The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, second issue, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
Hammer Price: £1,900
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Gothic Horror.- [Polidori (John)] The Vampyre; A Tale, first edition, second issue, with title reset removing Byron's name, half-title, later state of p.36 with "a" in "almost" aligned, without 12pp. advertisements at end, disbound but with original stitching intact, [Wise p.96; Wolff 5577; Summers p.21], for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819.
⁂ First edition of the first vampire story in English, written by John Polidori, Byron's friend and later secretary. The first issue with a Colburn imprint, attributed the work to Byron, who quickly refuted the attribution in a famous letter to Galignani. The genesis for Polidori's tale occurred on the very same evening that Mary Shelley conceived her own horror masterpiece, Frankenstein, when Byron proposed an evening of ghost story writing at the Villa Diodati in the summer of 1816.
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