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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20020622
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A RARE first edition of horror classic Dracula signed by author Bram Stoker is expected to raise more than pounds 10,000 at auction.

The book was the property of Liverpool-born William Boyd Carpenter, who became the Right Rev The Lord Bishop of Ripon, but had a passion for the occult.

It is due to go on sale at Sotheby's in London on July 11.

The novel was first published in 1897 and the signed copy says ``The Right Rev The Lord Bishop of Ripon from Bram Stoker, 31 July 1897.''

Born in the city in 1841, father-of-10 Rev Carpenter was the chairman of the English ...

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