Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery and Imagination
£150
London, Odhams Press, n.d..
‘Deluxe’ edition. 8vo. Original faux leather cloth. Dust-jacket, stating ‘De Luxe’.
An attractive collected edition of Poe’s short fiction, bringing together key tales of horror, psychological disturbance, and early detective narrative.
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A very good in very good jacket.
Frontispiece portrait, decorative title border.
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