Garden City, Sun Dial Library, [ca. 1928]. Horror writer Clark Ashton Smith's copy of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel, with Smith's ownership signature on the half-title in pencil, dated December 1931, the year that Tod Browning's classic film adaption of the novel, starring Bela Lugosi, was released. Smith was a close friend, by correspondence, to H.P. Lovecraft, and along with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard comprised the "big three" of Weird Tales during the Golden Age of pulp magazines. Dracula is perhaps the most famous horror novel of all time, in part because of the Lugosi film, and this copy links the classic era of pulp fiction with one of the genre's earliest and most enduring classics. A couple small stains to boards and upper outer edge of text block; a very good copy in a very good, edge-chipped dust jacket. [#032321] SOLD