The Fall of the House of Usher.
by POE, Edgar Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in a near fine folding box.
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
[New York]:: The Limited Editions Club,, 1985.. One of 1500 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press, signed in pencil by Raphael Soyer; this copy unnumbered, with a blindstamp "Out of Series" on the colophon page.. publisher's quarter niger and marbled boards in (custom?) folding box.. Fine in a near fine folding box.. Large folio,. With a tribute to Alice Neel by Raphael Soyer. Illustrated by Alice Neel. Publisher's prospectus laid in.
Synopsis
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. It contains within it the poem "The Haunted Palace", which had earlier been published separately in the April 1839 issue of the Baltimore Museum magazine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24990
- Title
- The Fall of the House of Usher.
- Author
- POE, Edgar Allan
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's quarter niger and marbled boards in (custom?) folding box.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a near fine folding box.
- Edition
- One of 1500 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press, signed in pe
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club,
- Place of Publication
- [New York]:
- Date Published
- 1985.
- Pages
- 32 [1] pp.
- Size
- Large folio,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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