• Publication: Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 591252
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Date: 1935-00-00
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
• Price:
  $5.00^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: 317
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed. with illustrations by Rackham
  • WorldCat (OCLC 2181991, below) shows heading "Tales of mystery & imagination" and reports: -- "Printed in Great Britain" -- Contents (list of 25 including no essay) -- 25 cm
  • Evidently this is identical to the 1935 Harrap edition. See one WorldCat library record of a 1986 facsimile which reports identical page-count and the same 25 Contents, OCLC 16092559 (which reports only 6 pages of plates; size 26 cm).
  • Price from joint review by Edward Larocque Tinker, NY Times 1936-01-05 pBR16 "New Editions, Fine and Otherwise" -- 12 full-page color and 17 line illustrations
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 2181991
  • Reginald-1: 11714

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Tales of Mystery and Imagination • interior artwork by Arthur Rackham
• The Imp of the Perverse • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Descent Into the Maelstrom • (1852) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  A Descent Into the Maelstroem
  1841)
• The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Premature Burial • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Hop-Frog • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
• The Assignation • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Visionary 1834)
• King Pest • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of King Pest the First: A Tale Containing an Allegory 1835)
• The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• The Man of the Crowd • (1840) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Gold Bug • non-genre • (1880) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Gold-Bug 1843)
• Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eleonora • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  Berenice—A Tale^?Berenice-A Tale
  1835)
• Morella • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Morella — A Tale 1835)
• MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Metzengerstein • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1832) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Mystery of Marie Rogêt^?The Mystery of Marie Roget
  • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1842) • novella by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe