Publication: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Publication: Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 640224
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1935-00-00
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co.
Price:
21/-^?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: 317
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Arthur Rackham
Notes:
- New collection newly illustrated by Rackham "Limited edition of 460 copies, of which 450 are for sale." --WorldCat
- WorldCat (OCLC, below): -- identifies both printers (text and b/w; colour) -- "[29] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm" (WorldCat records of the ordinary ed. report size 25 cm or 26 cm.)
- 12 full-page color and 17 line illustrations --from US newspaper coverage of the 1935 Lippincott ed., printed in Great Britain
- Price from joint review The Scotsman 1935-12-12 p14 "Complementary Arts: Writers and Illustrators in Collaboration", one of multiple articles under the banner "Christmas Gift Books"
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 815409263

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Collection Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination • collection by Edgar Allan Poe

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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

Publication: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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