The Fall of the House of Usher
by POE, Edgar Allan
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- Fine
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- Condition
- fine
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. Limited. hardcover. fine. Alice Neel. Illustrated by Alice Neel. Afterword by Raphael Soyer. Thin folio, leather backed marbled boards; cloth folding case (light dust soiling). New York: Limited Edition Club, 1985. Fine.<br/> <br/> Signed by Soyer only, as Neel died while the book was in production. Blind-stamp on the colophon page states that this is one of 50 out-of-series copies for presentation. Monthly letter laid in.<br/> <br/>
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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- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 304877
- Title
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- Author
- POE, Edgar Allan
- Illustrator
- Alice Neel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
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- Cloth
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- Folio
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- Fine
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