Forty-Two Tales [Complete and Unabridged]

59 Grosvenor Street, London: Octopus Books Limited, 1979. Early printing; number-line at copyright: 59370. Navy full cloth boards, bold haunting gilt cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages very good. Front and back yellow pictorial endpapers w/multi-panel design of Harry Clarke imagery. Vintage signature at front endpaper: "Sheila Will". Bind good; hinges intact. Scarce original wrapper in yellow with thick green borders and titles featuring collage of Harry Clarke designs in dark colors with macabre mountain scene at back panel, moderate shelf, edge wear; protected in new clear sleeve. Includes nineteen chiarscuro-like full-page design of the inimitable Harry Clarke. Also, partial-page vignettes, headers, and tailpieces, decoration throughout. Forty-two tales including The Fall of the House of Usher; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold Bug, Landor's Cottage, and many, many more of favorite Poe classics. This most complete selection of short stories reveals the ghoulish genius and gothic imagination of one of America's premier horror and suspense writers. Classic 1970's book design. Printed in Czechoslovakia. 638 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Clarke, Harry. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.