The Lair of the White Worm
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Overview:
- Title: The Lair of the White Worm
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Year: 2015
- ISBN-10: 9780008110505
- Publisher: Collins
- Price: £2.50
- Pages: viii+208
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Lair of the White Worm
- Notes:
- Abridged edition (not stated) This is the 1925 Abridged edition, inferred from the Contents list of 28 chapters rather than 40.
- Data from Amazon UK as of 2014-11-21 and 2019-06-01 (no evident change). Amazon product pages remain the only source for publication date.
- British Library (BL, below) confirms price £2.50. One BL note is "Originally published: London: Rider, 1911." but this is the Abridged edition.
- Cover illustration is that of the plate facing page 86 in the 1911 first edition. See the Cover record.
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As of June 2019, Amazon (UK only, ebook also viewed) provides "Look inside" without title page or back cover (selection varies but that is true on three visits).
- Copyright page: apparent 1st printing (numberline "1") The ebook copyright screen is more informative; credits cover art/design (see that record) as well as "Life and Times".
- "History of Collins", p.iii-iv, largely on "affordable editions"
- "Life and Times", p.v-viii, unsigned, by Gerard Cheshire (from above) Available in full today, containing no "Life" of Stoker, the essay concerns The Lair briefly, mainly Dracula and vampire literature, in modern European context. It credits artist Pamela Colman Smith in a biographical paragraph (see the Cover record).
- "Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from the Collins English Dictionary", p181-208