Mary Shelley. Used. Good condition, worn around the front of the edges and creases in along the spine.
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit alpine room and a runaway imagination-fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley