Rare Gutenberg Leaf and First American Edition of Dracula Inscribed by Bram Stoker to Auction
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First American edition of Dracula inscribed by Bram Stoker
Freeman’s November 16 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible.
“Handling a Gutenberg leaf is both very moving and exciting,” said Darren Winston, Head of Freeman’s Books and Manuscripts department. “To have in your hand a single page from the first book printed in the West 568 years ago, and to consider how that publication changed the world in more ways than one can imagine, that can take your breath away.”
Books and Manuscripts also features:
a first American edition of Dracula inscribed by Bram Stoker
first English editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case ofDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
three autograph letters and two signed books by Virginia Woolf
a single-owner collection of works by the Brontë family including a first American edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Important Americana in the auction includes a second edition of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay’s Federalist Papers, a signed commission by Abraham Lincoln, and writings by Benjamin Franklin.
