• Publication: Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 591199
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Date: 1902-00-00
• Publisher: Grant Richards
• Pub. Series: The World's Classics
• Pub. Series #: XXI
• Price:
  1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 367
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  First edition as The World's Classics, XXI (reprinted thus by H. Frowde 1903, 1906, 1910 --from 1910 printing viewed at HathiTrust)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- first printed page shows "The World's Classics", "XXI", "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe", "I", "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" -- second printed page lists "The World's Classics", 1 to 27, prices 1/- and 2/- in two formats -- title page states "Grant Richard" (no 's') -- stories span p[1]-367; p367 closes "The End", footer "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. // Edinburgh & London" -- no illustrations
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 21021136
  • Reginald-1: 11706

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Gold Bug • non-genre • (1880) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Gold-Bug 1843)
• 41 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 51 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 64 •
  A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  A Descent Into the Maelstroem
  • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 83 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 122 •
  The Mystery of Marie Rogêt^?The Mystery of Marie Roget
  • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1842) • novella by Edgar Allan Poe
• 178 • The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 199 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 220 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 237 • The Premature Burial • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 253 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 264 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 271 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 278 • The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 282 • The Oblong Box • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 295 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 300 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 318 • Loss of Breath: A Tale Neither in Nor Out of "Blackwood" • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1889) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of A Decided Loss 1832)
• 332 • Shadow—A Parable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Shadow: A Fable 1835)
• 335 • Silence—a Fable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Siope—A Fable 1838)
• 339 • The Man of the Crowd • (1840) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 349 • Some Words with a Mummy • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe