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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20020712
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A FIRST edition copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula, inscribed by the author to the Bishop of Ripon, the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, on publication in 1897, fetched 16,730 at Sotheby's in London yesterday.

Dublin-born Stoker took seven years to complete the story of the blood-sucking Transylvanian count who left his castle to stalk the streets of gas-lit London.

The presentation copy of the world's most famous horror story bears the legend in the author's hand: "The Right Rev The Lord Bishop of Ripon from Bram Stoker 31 July 1897."

The Bishop (1841-1918) was a prolific writer and also a ...

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