Edgar Allan Poe WEIRD TALES 1895 HORROR Gothic MACABRE Fantasy ILLUSTRATED Rare
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… a potent and inborn sense of the spectral, the morbid, and the horrible which gushed forth from every cell of the artist's creative mentality and stamped his macabre work with the ineffaceable mark of supreme genius. Poe's weird tales are alive in a manner that few others can ever hope to be. -- H.P. Lovecraft WEIRD TALES. By Edgar Allan Poe. Published in 1895 by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia. 6.5” x 4.5” decorated hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated. 25...8 pages. Condition: VERY GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Lovely exterior as shown in photo. Firm binding. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. Handwritten inscription on first prelim, dated 1896; slight pencil markings on rear prelim. Not ex-library. A gothic beauty. Edgar Allan Poe was the most morbid genius the modern world of letters has known. In the regions of the strangely terrible, remotely phantastic, and ghastly, Poe reigns supreme. For clearness of style, aptness of illustration and subtlety of thought he distances all his predecessors … Poe’s power consists in making unrealities appear natural. One of his great charms is his perpetual interest. 170 years after his death, Edgar Allen Poe remains the undisputed master of the macabre. His novels and short stories have inspired the greatest horror writers of past and present, from H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King. WEIRD TALES is a handsome illustrated collection of fourteen of Poe’s greatest terror tales, including “The Murders in the Rue Morgue, ” “The Pit and the Pendulum, ” “The Tell-Tale Heart, ” “The Black Cat, ” “Ligeia, ” and “The Fall of the House of Usher, ” among others. It was published in 1899 by the Henry Altemus Company of Philadelphia, as part of Altemus’s “Illustrated Vademecum Series, ” of which WEIRD TALES is No. 228. This book is beautifully illustrated with ghostly scenes rendered in high Victorian style directly from Poe's fictions. There is a portrait frontispiec illustrations in WEIRD TALES include an illuminated title page, a colored frontispiece and 8 full-page sepia-toned plates on glossy paper. Contents Include:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Assignation
Silence – A Fable
Berenice
The Tell-Tale Heart
”Thou Art the Man”
The Oval Portrait
The Gold-Bug
Eleonora
Ligeia
Shadow – A Parable
DO NOT MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THIS EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF POE’S GREATEST WORKS! Remember folks, this is an 1895 original. This book is 124 years old. Check out all the RARE ANTIQUE BOOKS ABOUT THE INDIAN WARS, CIVIL WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE OLD WEST THAT I'M OFFERING ON EBAY THIS WEEK! Please be sure to add me to your List of Favorite Sellers! Don't miss out on any of my latest listings. Click here to sign up for the NEETMOK NEWSLETTER! Winner pays for media mail shipping in the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: All international bidders must pay by PayPal. © 2013-2019 by eBay seller neetmok. NEETMOK BOOKS IS A REGISTERED MEMBER OF EBAY’S VERO PROGRAM. Unauthorized use of Item Description Text or Images is a violation of eBay rules, as posted by eBay: "No Copying Allowed! When you prepare your listings you generally should use only material (text, photographs, etc.) and trademarks/names that you created or own yourself or licensed from the owners." Auction page content (i.e., item description text; lists of contents, lists of illustrations/photos; scanned images, etc.) was written/compiled/formatted by eBay seller neetmok and, as intellectual property, is protected by copyright. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ITEM DESCRIPTION TEXT INCLUDING SUMMARIES OF CONTENTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC., PHOTOS OR OTHER PROPRIETARY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND WILL BE REPORTED TO EBAY’S VERO DEPARTMENT FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Assignation
Silence – A Fable
Berenice
The Tell-Tale Heart
”Thou Art the Man”
The Oval Portrait
The Gold-Bug
Eleonora
Ligeia
Shadow – A Parable
DO NOT MISS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THIS EXTREMELY RARE ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF POE’S GREATEST WORKS! Remember folks, this is an 1895 original. This book is 124 years old. Check out all the RARE ANTIQUE BOOKS ABOUT THE INDIAN WARS, CIVIL WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND THE OLD WEST THAT I'M OFFERING ON EBAY THIS WEEK! Please be sure to add me to your List of Favorite Sellers! Don't miss out on any of my latest listings. Click here to sign up for the NEETMOK NEWSLETTER! Winner pays for media mail shipping in the United States of America. INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: All international bidders must pay by PayPal. © 2013-2019 by eBay seller neetmok. NEETMOK BOOKS IS A REGISTERED MEMBER OF EBAY’S VERO PROGRAM. Unauthorized use of Item Description Text or Images is a violation of eBay rules, as posted by eBay: "No Copying Allowed! When you prepare your listings you generally should use only material (text, photographs, etc.) and trademarks/names that you created or own yourself or licensed from the owners." Auction page content (i.e., item description text; lists of contents, lists of illustrations/photos; scanned images, etc.) was written/compiled/formatted by eBay seller neetmok and, as intellectual property, is protected by copyright. UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ITEM DESCRIPTION TEXT INCLUDING SUMMARIES OF CONTENTS, ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC., PHOTOS OR OTHER PROPRIETARY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND WILL BE REPORTED TO EBAY’S VERO DEPARTMENT FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION.
