The Vampire. His Kith and Kin and The Vampire in Europe.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1928 & 1929.

First editions. Two volumes published separately but sold together as usual. 8vo. 237x152mm. pp. xv [ibl], 356; xii, 330. Both with eight illustrations. Both bound in publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Front pastedowns have book plates of D.A.King formerly ("Olim Civis") of the Colleges of St Salvator and St Leonard in St Andrews. Without the (scarce) dust-jackets. Fading to spines (more marked in the first volume) and bumping to head and foot of spines. Rubbing to extremities. Some marking to boards. Internally, there is some foxing, heavier in the second volume but overall these are nice copies of what are perhaps Summers's two most influential works, if influence is measured by their effect on popular culture, for it has been said that "it is because of Summers that the modern serious study of the vampire figure exists today". Summers's books on vampires aim at a complete survey of the subject: indeed he describes his endeavour as a setting forth of the "philosophy of vampirism".