1890 Rare Book - Edgar Allan POE Tales of Adventure Mystery and Imagination.
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Title: Tales of Adventure Mystery and Imagination.
Publisher: London, New York, and Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co, 1890. Minerva Library of Famous Books.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: viii- 557 pages + publisher adverts at the end.
Binding: Very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean. light staining or foxing - mainly on the preliminary pages - as shown, name of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Illustrated with a nice frontis portrait and 2 full-page illustrations.
Estimate: (USD 150 - USD 250)
The book: Rare and mice edition of the Tales of Adventure Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe including The Narrative of Gordon Pym, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug, The Masque of the Red Death, and many more!
The author: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.