Publication: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Publication: Tales of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 638344
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1986-00-00
ISBN: 0-7064-2651-7 [978-0-7064-2651-9]
Publisher: Octopus Books
Pages: 317
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- Facsimile of 1935 Harrap edition --WorldCat
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) also gives: -- Octopus, 1986, ISBN 0706426517 -- 6 pages of plates, 26 cm -- list of Contents (25 stories; no essay)
- For this ISBN as of 2017-10-25, Amazon UK gives -- "Hardcover – 16 Oct 1986" -- "Publisher: Bounty Books (16 Oct. 1986)" -- "24.6 x 19.6 x 3.6 cm" -- image linked here That image shows a hardcover book with dustjacket, whose spine states "Octopus Books". For same ISBN, Amazon US gives -- "Hardcover – November, 1989" -- "Publisher: Horizon Book Promotions; First Edition edition (November 1989)" -- 9.7 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches -- image of identical front jacket (spine not visible) WorldCat data accepted, and identified as the hardcover book whose image Amazon UK displays (linked here), despite the mis-match with Amazon-reported publisher/imprint and size, and the mis-match with Amazon US data.
- For this ISBN 2017-10-25, Amazon UK and US both provide "Look inside!" a 2015 Pook Press paperback edition that shows -- front cover with same illustration as 1986 Octopus and back cover with illustration in same style and hues -- back cover states ISBN 978-14455-0599-2, "... Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork ..." -- Contents, p5-6; page 6 missing -- Illustrations, p7-8, lists "in colour" (12) and "in line" (17); title page not included The 17 listed Contents match the first 17 listed by WorldCat for the 1986 Octopus and 1935 Harrap; listed page numbers 11 to 178. That "Look" does not make clear whether the dustjacket illustration is by Rackham, nor whether it dates from 1935.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 16092559

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Collection Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination • (1935) • collection by Edgar Allan Poe

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination • (1935) • 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

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Source	Status	Verifier	Date
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Zapp	2019-12-26 15:54:17

Publication: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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