The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat
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The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat
$800.00 USD
The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat
Authors: Florence Marryat
Location: Leipzig
Publisher: Bernard Tauchnitz
Date: 1897
Features: Title page dated 1897. Copyright Edition, stated. Published the same year as the Hutchinson First Edition. Collection of British Authors; Tauchnitz Edition, Vol. 3245, half title page. Library binding with dark green cloth; gilt lettering and call number to spine. New endpapers. 318 pp. Horror novel. The protagonist of the book, Harriet Brandt, is a mixed-race psychic vampire who kills unintentionally. The novel follows Harriet after she leaves a Jamaican convent for Europe, and her ill-fated attempts to integrate with Victorian society. Academics highlight the novel's treatment of race, eugenics, and social class. Marryat's conception of vampires as medical rather than supernatural has also elicited interest. Very interesting early (or first) Novel of a Mixed-race Vampire.
Book Condition: Very Good: Ex-library. Rebound in green boards with library call number to spine. A firm copy with bow to rear panel. Text block edges light red. New endpapers. Repaired tear to half title page. Small library stamps to half-title page, title page, and pp. [4-5].
Notes: WorldCat: first published by Hutchinson & Co., London, 1897. Scarce copy.
HCX23104-1
Authors: Florence Marryat
Location: Leipzig
Publisher: Bernard Tauchnitz
Date: 1897
Features: Title page dated 1897. Copyright Edition, stated. Published the same year as the Hutchinson First Edition. Collection of British Authors; Tauchnitz Edition, Vol. 3245, half title page. Library binding with dark green cloth; gilt lettering and call number to spine. New endpapers. 318 pp. Horror novel. The protagonist of the book, Harriet Brandt, is a mixed-race psychic vampire who kills unintentionally. The novel follows Harriet after she leaves a Jamaican convent for Europe, and her ill-fated attempts to integrate with Victorian society. Academics highlight the novel's treatment of race, eugenics, and social class. Marryat's conception of vampires as medical rather than supernatural has also elicited interest. Very interesting early (or first) Novel of a Mixed-race Vampire.
Book Condition: Very Good: Ex-library. Rebound in green boards with library call number to spine. A firm copy with bow to rear panel. Text block edges light red. New endpapers. Repaired tear to half title page. Small library stamps to half-title page, title page, and pp. [4-5].
Notes: WorldCat: first published by Hutchinson & Co., London, 1897. Scarce copy.
HCX23104-1