Click for full-size.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by POE, Edgar Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Heritage Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. 29 of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known macabre stories are offered in this handsome, illustrated Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase. Includes 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Purloined Letter' and many more. With photogravures of aquatint illustrations by William Sharp. With an introduction by Vincent Starrett. --- In navy quarter cloth and marbled paper-covered boards w/gold metallic accents, with titling in gilt on spine & publisher's navy topstain. Sandglass flyer not present. Volume housed in grey paper-covered slipcase. --- With severe sunning to spine (titling is barely readable), torn out front free endpaper which has exposed underlying cloth mull, else a sound, unmarked copy. Fair only slipcase with soiling, chafing and rubbing, otherwise intact and structurally sound.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall) ; xx, 366 pages .
Synopsis
Tales of Mystery and Imagination , stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe have been compiled by Padraic Colum into a thrilling collection focused on Poe’s suspenseful stories. The first edition compiled by Padraic Colum was published in 1908 by Geoffrey Newnes Ltd. and includes an introduction by Colum explaining his decision to exclude Poe’s poems, comedies, and essays from the collection. A later 1919 edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., includes 24 full-page black and white plates by famous illustrator Harry Clarke. An album by The Alan Parsons Project was named after the short story compilation and contains several songs based on the tales included.
Read More: Identifying first editions of Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81520
- Title
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- Author
- POE, Edgar Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
Bluebird Books
All sales sold on a satisfaction guaranteed basis--all we ask is that you notify us within 30 days of purchase that you would like to return an item.
About the Seller
Bluebird Books
Biblio member since 2005
Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
This Book’s Categories
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
Browse rare books
Interested in rare and collectible books? Booksellers from around the world showcase some of their finest in Biblio’s rare book room.
