THE BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE

by Florence Marryat, Mrs. Florence Lean, Church

$5,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. 1-4 1-345 346-348: ads , publisher's pictorial reddish brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The alleged vampire is 21-year-old Harriet Brandt. The 'blood' of the title is metonomous for 'heredity,' and refers to the rumor that Harriet’s grandmother, a Jamaican slave, was bitten by a vampire bat while

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