Item #44732 Famous Impostors. Bram STOKER.
Famous Impostors.

Famous Impostors.

New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv + 350pp. Red cloth gilt-lettered on spine & front board. B/w frontispiece and 9 other b/w plates. Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker (1847-1912). It is a humorous and often scathing look at various pretenders, impostors, and hoaxers, including a number of famous occultists whose claims Stoker felt extended beyond their abilities. Contents: (1) Pretenders: Perkin Warbeck; The Hidden King; Stefan Mali; The False Dauphins; Princess Olive; (II) Practitioners of Magic: Paracelsus; Cagliostro; Mesmer. (III)The Wandering Jew. (IV) John Law. (V) Witchcraft and Clairvoyance: Witches; Doctor Dee; La Voisin; Sir Edward Kelley; Mother Damnable; Matthew Hopkins. (VI) Athur Orton (Tichborne laimant). (VII) Women as Men: The Motive for Disguise; Hannah Snell; La Maupin; Mary East. (VIII) Hoaxes, Etc.: Two London Hoaxes; The Cat Hoax; The Military Review; The Toll-Gate; The Marriage Hoax;Buried Treasure; Dean Swift’s Hoax; Hoaxed Burglars; Bogus Sausages; The Moon Hoax. (IX) The Chevalier D’eon (X) The Bisley Boy. Spine ends and corners chafed with some light fraying, cloth slightly faded towards fore-edge of front board which also has a couple of very small bumps to the edges. Lacks tissue guard for frontis, pages evenly age-toned and a handful have the odd tiny chip to the exxtremes of the margins, endpaper starting at rear inner hinge, but still a solid, clean, better than VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #44732

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