POE, EDGAR ALLAN - Tales of Mystery and ImaginationNew York: The Heritage Press, 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. Good+ with no dust jacket . USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3110] Book number 81520is offered by:
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