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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [1953 PAPERBACK] • Lion Books • Rare Robert Maguire Cover

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [1953 PAPERBACK] • Lion Books • Rare Robert Maguire Cover

$95.00 USD
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Complete and Unabridged)

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1953] LION BOOKS

Rare first Lion Books edition featuring notoriously suggestive pulp-style cover art by Robert Maguire.

Small, square vintage paperback in excellent condition. 

Clean, tight copy with minimal wear. 

Note - *a printing defect has a couple of pages left with longer edges that stick out of text block (see photos).  Not uncommon in paperbacks of this era.

Reads good as new with some inevitable tanning to pages.  Appears unread.

More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.  “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.”

For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. 
 
With an Introduction by Douglas Clegg
And an Afterword by Harold Bloom
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