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12mo. Condizione: Near Fine. dj. First trade issue, issued simultaneously with the Queensway edition, Copyright edition. 12mo. A novel based on the 1935 film directed by James Whale, The Bride of Frankenstein. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77; The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 53-4; Bleiler (1978), p. 68; Reginald 04717 Green cloth stamped in gilt; very lightly rubbed to top and bottom of spine, gilt lightly faded at spine. Pages toned but otherwise clean. A near fine copy in bright pictorial dust jacket; small open tear to base of spine First trade issue, issued simultaneously with the Queensway edition, Copyright edition.…

First edition. 252 pages. The book is firmly bound in the publisher's blue cloth, lettered and bordered in black to the spine, the cloth is slightly marked and rubbed, with bumping to the extremities and sunning to the spine corresponding with loss to the dust jacket. The text block is foxed, lightly marked and age toned, with slight cracking to the gutters. The dust jacket, featuring the iconic image of Elsa Lanchester as the eponymous Bride of the title, is the original and correctly priced at 2/6 net to the spine, it is foxed and age toned, more so to the spine and reverse, with roughly two fifths of the spine lost and other smaller chips and areas of loss to the front and rear panel, also some short closed tears with associated creasing, some of which have been repaired with thin archival tape to the reverse. The novelisation of the famous horror film, written hastily in a Gothic but not too Gothic style so as to blend authenticity with readability, and published to coincide with the film's release. The Prologue is particularly delightful, purporting to be a conversation between Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, the two men pressing young Mary to tell them more of the adventures of Frankenstein and his monster, disappointingly though without even a mention of Polidori. The cheap Reader's Library film tie-in edition, with its alternative interpretive jacket artwork, and this more expensive version, which sold itself on the one simple and striking image of Lanchester, were issued simultaneously, the former in large quantity. Jacketed examples of the Queensway Press edition are rare in any condition. …