Bram Stoker. 
 
Modern Library: 1956. Later printing of the Modern Library edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Scuffing and tears along the edges of the jacket. One scuff down the spine that takes away some letters from "Bram Stoker." Smudges on the back wraps of the jacket. Edges of the boards have a little shelf wear. One stain on the corner of the fore edge and the bottom edge of the text block. Former owner name on the bottom edge of the text block. Text is very clean. 418 pages. Very good. 
 
Dracula holds us after a hundred years as a bestseller. Why? Maybe it's the repressed Victorian sexuality just beneath the characters' stoicism and dread. Or it's the construction of a thriller told in letters, diary entries, and documents, so the reader feels as stuck in the fix as the characters are, and the tension builds and builds. It may be because Stoker threw every part of himself - lawyer, social striver, long suffering lover, showbiz mover - into the book. But all of this effort only works in the shadow cast by its monster, Dracula: a Byronic predator, ancient and aristocratic, who takes on all of modern man. This edition gives the best features of the Modern Library - pretty, sturdy, compact - and does the Count justice. 
 
"'I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave, and You will reward me.'"