Large 8vo. [8] 152pp. Original publisher's full colour illustrated paper wraps. Wraps a little scuffed and marked, with minor losses to spine ends, with creasing and foxing to all edges. Internally bright and clean, with eight paged of contemporary advertising to the front.

A very early edition of The Argosy, in the year of its revival into a short story paperback magazine. Bram Stoker's Dracula appears here in serialised form, nearly thirty years after its original publication, and just two years after the first authorised stage adaptation. It features alongside the second ever printing of Lewis Carroll's poem The Lady of the Ladle (1854), Lord Dunsany's Charon, and Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder's in the Rue Morgue, among many others.

Abraham 'Bram' Stoker (1847-1912), Irish author, theatre manager, and personal assistant to Sir Henry Irving. He is now remembered synonymously with his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.