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The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
Westerham, Westerham, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. WALPOLE, HORACE. The Castle of Otranto, Westerham: Westerham Press, 1975. Quarto, No. 364 of an edition of 2,000, pp. xxvii, 99, 1 (limitation page), cloth illustrated boards quarter-bound in blue levant with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, blue slipcase, 7 color and sepia illustrated plates, signed on the limitation page by W.S. Lewis, editor, who wrote the introduction. Includes the monthly letter of the Limited Editions Club. Condition of this book: Fine, slipcase scuffed. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 1970s; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52872. .
Synopsis
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.
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- 52872
- Title
- The Castle of Otranto
- Author
- Horace Walpole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Westerham
- Place of Publication
- Westerham
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 1970s; Fiction. Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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