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Later today, the Boston Virtual Book Fair will go live. Regular customers will already have received a copy of my fair list, to get a sneak peek at what I shall be showing. I thought this week on the blog I’d write about one of those books. Published in Budapest in 1922, this is a […]

This was something of an exciting discovery: the first edition in Hungarian of Dracula (1897).  I knew it must be an early translation when I bought it, but it turns out it’s the first translation into any language and apparently hitherto unknown to scholarship. The bibliography of Stoker’s seminal work of horror fiction is well […]