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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
by POE, Edgar Allan
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth, housed in a custom morocco case. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 243; 228. Both volumes bound in original muslin with original paper spine labels. With the four pages of advertisements bound directly before the title page, as corresponds with the copy in the Yale University Library cited by Heartman. With p. 213 misnumbered 231 in Vol. II; the "i" of "ing"
and hyphen properly aligned on p. 219. Spine labels deteriorated. Contemporary ownership signature (M. T. Willard) on FFEPs of both volumes. Interiors quite fresh. Pastedowns of both volumes with the red morocco bookplate of Academy Award-winning lyricist and noted book collector Paul Francis Webster ("The Shadow of Your Smile"). Half-morocco slipcase and chemises. First edition of Poe's first substantial collection of tales, of which research suggests only 750 copies were printed. In 1834 Poe had hoped to publish his first collection, to be called Tales of the Folio Club, but the effort went unpublished. The stories at-hand, and his subsequent collection, Tales (1845), are the only two collections published during his lifetime. (A pamphlet of two stories, of which less than 20 copies are known, was published in 1843.) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque contain all the stories Poe had published in periodicals to date, along with "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling," which appears here for the first time.
and hyphen properly aligned on p. 219. Spine labels deteriorated. Contemporary ownership signature (M. T. Willard) on FFEPs of both volumes. Interiors quite fresh. Pastedowns of both volumes with the red morocco bookplate of Academy Award-winning lyricist and noted book collector Paul Francis Webster ("The Shadow of Your Smile"). Half-morocco slipcase and chemises. First edition of Poe's first substantial collection of tales, of which research suggests only 750 copies were printed. In 1834 Poe had hoped to publish his first collection, to be called Tales of the Folio Club, but the effort went unpublished. The stories at-hand, and his subsequent collection, Tales (1845), are the only two collections published during his lifetime. (A pamphlet of two stories, of which less than 20 copies are known, was published in 1843.) Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque contain all the stories Poe had published in periodicals to date, along with "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling," which appears here for the first time.
Two of the stories, "Fall of the House of Usher" and "MS. Found in a Bottle," remain among the most enduring stories in American literature. Notably scarce in original cloth with paper labels. BAL, 16133; HEARTMAN AND CANNY, pp. 49-54.
Synopsis
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7154
- Title
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
- Author
- POE, Edgar Allan
- Format/Binding
- Two volumes in original cloth, housed in a custom morocco case
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Lea and Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1840
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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