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From our rare book collection, a first USA edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" from 1899 by Doubleday & McClure. It was originally published in the U.K. in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. but the US edition features much better art than the plain yellow covers and red text of the UK edition. Dracula's castle high on a mountain with bats flying overhead just shout vampire! The relevance and importance of this title is pretty obvious, so I won't give a big history lesson here. For that, I send you to Wikipedia.
Think the price of this has gone up with the appearance of teeny bopper vampire lovers? Eh, probably not. I didn't read THAT book, but I have seen THAT movie. Yeah, pretty much no reason to think fans of this would be fans of "Dracula" based on the movie.
Most of our vintage movie posters are sexploitation and juvenile delinquent. We have a few horror, though, and "Return of Dracula" just may be the cornerstone of our horror poster collection. What more could you ask for...blood sucking vampire (check)...swimsuit clad victim (check)....scary, red eyes (check)....creepy horror font (priceless).
I previously featured a photoplay edition of the Harlow movie "The Beast of the City," but the two photoplays above are the true gems of my collection. Mach Tey is the illustrator again, and yet again, he does a stupendous job creating a striking, colorful image with an art deco look and composition. These are particuarly important collectibles, since the movie posters for these movies are impossible find and worth enormous sums of money. "Frankenstein" has extra appeal, as well, because Mary Shelley's original novel is similarly impossible to find and worth enormous sums of money.
