1878 Scarce Book - Edgar Allan POE Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour. Illustrated.
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe.
Title: Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour. Illustrated with Twenty-seven Engravings on Wood.
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock and Tyler, no date (circa 1878)
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7" X 5".
Pages: 395 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 27 full-page & in-text nice Engravings on Wood.
Estimation: (Scarce with no or few other copies available for sale worldwide).
The book: Scarce edition of those famous Tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Fully illustrated with Twenty-seven Engravings on Wood.
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.