Firsts: The Library of Robin and Kathryn Smiley
Thu, Aug 17, 2023 12:00PM EDT
Lot 344
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or,...
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
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SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE CORNERSTONE OF HORROR LITERATURE and the best-known fiction of the Romantic era. Shelley?s Frankenstein is the first work of science-fiction in English literature and ?the first significant rendering of the relations between mankind and science through an image of mankind?s dual nature appropriate to an age of science? (Clute and Nicholls). The author?s name is misspelled ?Shelly? on the title-page. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, complete and uncut in original boards. Lyles B6a.
