PARKER, ROBERT ANDREW (MARY SHELLEY — Robert Andrew Parker's Illustrated Frankenstein

New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0517516977. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostlyclean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.". Near Fine .