In Search of Frankenstein.
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover, Small quarto. xii + 244pp. Original black cloth with red lettering to spine, appendix and index. B&w illustrations, maps, frontis. Stated first printing. A survey of the myths that lay behind Shelley's famous novel: "What is the link between Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein and the history and myth surrounding the barons Frankenstein - a respected German feudal family that inhabited Castle Frankenstein on the top of Magnet mountain near Darmstadt from the early Middle Ages? How much did Mary know of their dramatic history when she visited the castle in 1814? Did she now of the curse that felled three brothers Frankenstein in the early sixteenth century, or of the birth at the castle of the infamous alchemist Konrad Dippel who, it was rumoured, performed diabolical chemical transformations there? ..." A hint of shelf-wear, otherwise a tight, clean VG+ copy in VG+ dust jacket (Dust jacket has minimal rubbing to the edges, price clipped, now protected in a removable mylar sleeve). Item #67957
ISBN: 0821206141
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