srboone's collection

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The cover for each serialized part.

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Each part contains 32 pages of Victorain advertisements, a lot are for publishing companies:

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Other items are also advertised.

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Delightfully politically incorrect!

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Each part contained two illustrations by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Brown)

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[Grant Wootton]

That, Mr Boone, is one hell of a beautiful production, in every respect !!!!!!

[Patrick]

Wow! They did a great job on that one! Probably the nicest, most interesting edition I've seen from Easton.

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I was really impressed. The only downside to the production I can readily see is that is the size of the original serialized parts. When bound together, it is 900+ pages and does not open readily like most EP books. When I start reading it, I'm sure it will loosen up. But i like the fact that it doesn't have any gold embossing on the covers--when reading a long work (like...War &Peace), the oils in you hands and constant rubbing in cetain places can make the embossing wear off. Not here.

One of my favorite movie quotes comes from "Rocky III:"

Burgess Meredith (commenting on the Italian Stallion statue): "Definitely a thing of beauty."

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Letter "H"!

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That's "H" as in "Hang onto your pocketbook, son, this is the first of many! You will be broke the rest of your life!"

I got this one in my dark regions grab bag
also my first lettered edition.My number was J as in You jerk you spent all the kids christmas money on another book.Quote from my wife. Na just kidding.
This was a great grab bag and I too was pleased with what they sent.I went with the 9 item bag and got 11 books 4hard cover 7 trade most signed. and a coffee mug
that matched one of the books.Very good deal.

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I declined to get a copy of KWP's Dracula and I kinda glad I did (after listening to all the problem encountered with the book). But I thought I would post pictures of the copy of Dracula I've settled on. It's Easton Press' version (fopund in the Horror Classics and Greatest Books Ever Written collections).

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Illustrated with woodcut engravings by Swiss artist Felix Hoffman (who was also a stained glass artist).

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