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More imagesPublished by New York: Barnes & Noble Books, (1997)., 1997
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. First printing number code sequence 1 through 9 to the copyright page. This superb anthology of fourteen tales featuring vampire hunters seeking to exterminate a vampire includes early to modern tales, each with a d…escriptive, dated and explanatory preface about the tale and its author, by Peter Haining. Conscripted for this vampire collection is the first printing of Peter Tremayne's story 'My Name Upon The Wind' in which Professor Van Helsing is transplanted to present-day Ireland. Comprises authors Anne Rice, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn, Uel Key, Sydney Horler, David Schow, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, and more. Fine in black linen over cream-plum boards with metallic-red embossed titles to the spine, plum headband and tail-band; in a near fine dust jacket with a .25" snagged tear to the lower end of the rear spine fold. Octavo; 363 pages; plus contents pages, preface, and introduction.
