"The Pit and the Pendulum" in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present MDCCCXLIII.

Bookseller

Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

77100

Title

"The Pit and the Pendulum" in: The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present MDCCCXLIII.

Author

[POE, Edgar Allan]

Illustrator

Added engraved title page with vignette; engraved plates.

Format/Binding

Publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered leather label on spine; t.e.g.

Book Condition

Used - Foxing on many pages ("The Pit and the Pendulum" is fairly free of it). Spine and edges of cloth tanned; corners bump

Edition

First edition.

Binding

Hardcover

Publisher

Carey and Hart,

Place of Publication

Philadelphia:

Date Published

[1842]

Pages

328 pp.

Size

Large 8vo,

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