Mary Shelley – Frankenstein – 1959

A very attractive 1959 example of Frankenstein, one of the best-known and influential novels ever written.

It was originally released in 1818, when Shelley was only 20 years old, in a three-volume edition of just 500 copies with the author left anonymous.

The tale was said to have originated in a challenge to Shelley by Lord Byron, several years earlier, to write a ghost or horror story.

The novel has since been adapted multiple times for the screen and stage, arguably most famously in the 1931 Boris Karloff cinematic version.

Earlier editions of the book are now increasingly hard to find. This is a 1959 printing by J.M. Dent in London, part of its Everyman Series of classic titles. With the original light-blue jacket showing a B&W illustration to the front. In very good condition. 242 pages.