Southern Classics Franklin Library: Edgar Allan Poe: Fall Of Usher: Gold Bug
Item History & Price
Southern Classics Library leather edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination, " Illustrated with 31 colored plates and numerous black and white photos, by Harry Clarke, Frontispiece Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe courtesy of the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, published by Oxmoor House in 1982. Bound in black leather, the book has marbled paper leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a very 'lightly' ...tipped upper corner, 'very minor' imperfection to gilt and a signed Southern Classics Registry bookplate on last page of end leaf. [This large book is nearly 11 inches long and 8 " wide.] Edgar Allan Poe, who lived from 1809 – 1849, was an American author and poet who was best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. "Tales" includes: "Ms. Found in a Bottle, " "Morella, " "Bon-Bon, " "William Wilson, " "A Man of the Crowd, " "Legeia, " "King Pest, " "Silence, " "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, ""The Tell-Tale Heart, " "The Pit and the Pendulum, " "The Mystery of Marie Roget, " "Metzengerstein, " "The Spectacles, " "The Oblong Box, " "The Tell-Tale Heart, " "A Descent into the Maelstrom, " "The Black Cat, " "The Fall of the House of Usher, " "The Cask of Amontillado, " "The Gold Bug, " "The Purloined Letter, " "The Murders in the Rue Morgue, " "Ligeia, " "King Pest, " "Berenice, " "Landor's Cottage, " "The Premature Burial, " "The Colloquy of Monos and Una, " "The Assignation, " "The Masque of the Red Death, " "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, " "Hop Frog, " "Science---A Fable, " "Science---A Parable." Edgar Allan Poe is buried in BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. This is GORGEOUS and RARE title. I offer Combined shipping.
