Editore: Hannah Institute and Dundern Press, Toronto / Oxford, 1991
ISBN 10: 1550021435 ISBN 13: 9781550021431
Da: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Canadian Medical Lives series No. 17. 156 pp including index. plates. Dj has light edgewear.
Editore: Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1994
ISBN 10: 1550022164 ISBN 13: 9781550022162
Da: High Park Books, Kitchener, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Illustrated Wraps. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. A personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Orillia Leacock home in 1958. The author was a well-know radio commentator for many years. 120 pages with B&W photos. Slight wear to corners. *** INSCRIBED by author *** on title page.
Editore: Dundern Press, Toronto & Oxford, 1997
Da: Cox & Budge Books, IOBA, Hythe, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Paperback, 23 × 15cm, 432pp. In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become perhaps the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that great novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars. The essays analyze Stoker's original novel and celebrate its legacy in popular culture. The continuing presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and films provides proof that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking." From the preface: "Dracula is a Gothic mandala, a vast design in which multiple reflections of the elements of the genre are configured in elegant sets of symmetries. It is also a sort of lens, bringing focus and compression to diverse Gothic motifs, including not only vampirism but madness, the night, spoiled innocence, disorder in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the ruin, and the tomb. Gathering up and unifying all that came before it, and casting its great shadow over all that came and continues to come after, its influence on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and film is unique and irresistible." Condition: This copy is in very good condition.