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Arthur Rackham; Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: George C. Harrap, 1935.
Price: US$299.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice 1935 first Arthur Rackham illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination." It is illustrated by Rackham with 12 color plates and several other black and white illustrations. The book is overall in very good condition with just some minor signs of wear and age. The covers have some light wear. The binding is good and sound. The interior is generally nice and clean, though there may be the very occasional page with a light bit of foxing or grubbiness. Along with that there may be the very occasional page with some kind of other minor imperfection such as a creased page corner, minor interior crack, tiny chip or tear, light bit of soiling, mild wrinkling, etc. Generally though, it's a very nice copy. The book measures approximately 10 1/8 inches by 7 3/4 inches and is 318 pages long.**************This book will require additional shipping charges if being sent outside of the United States**************
Seller: Nevermore Bookstore, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Poe, Edgar Allen. Poe's Tales of Mystery & Imagination. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London,, 1935.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small 4to., 318 pp. c.p. 12 colour plates with tissue guard inc. frontis & 17 mono plates. decorative endpapers, top edge dyed black, foredge slightly browned with some faint foxing, foxing to bottom edge. gift inscription with cartoon dated 13th November 1935 on first blank, Very good in original black cloth with gilt titles and illustration, slight fade at top of spine otherwise only light shelf wear, cloth and gilt bright, very good in original unclipped dustwrapper with light browning especially to spine, small closed tear to back at top, small loss top of spine and chipping at tail, now in removable cello sleeve. please see photographs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London George C Harrap 1935, 1935.
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, with dust jacket which is price clipped. Small tears to all edges and a small red stain to front cover and a mark to rear cover. Overall the dj is very good for its age. Rare edition with dark blue boards with gilt lettering but no skeleton. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Fine colour plates by Arthur Rackham.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$590.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition. Hard cover published by George C. Harrap and Co. in 1935. Black covers with gilt lettering and design of a skeleton with a knife on front and gilt lettering and designs on spine. The gilt is still bright. Bottom corners of covers and ends of spine have some wear, and upper corners of covers have some rubbing. Spine is loose from binding. Back cover is slightly bowed. Bottom edge of pages has some soiling by corner. Top edge of pages has some stains. Endpapers are black and white with skeletal designs. The tissue guards for the color illustrations are intact. Book is in good plus condition. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover and is fully intact. It is not price-clipped (shows 21/- in bottom front corner), has some tanning at bottom of spine, and some wear at top of spine and at upper corners. The front side edge of DJ has a small nick. DJ is in very good minus condition. 318 pages, 2.9 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 318 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated at copyright: "First Published 1935 by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. 182 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1." Oversize 8" x 10" design. Black fine full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, light shelf wear, rub. Front board features stylized cover titles and artful dancing skeleton with raised dagger. Spine with sharp titles and gilded Rackham vignette. Gilt Harrap at heel with vignette of Pegasus raised on hind legs above "H." Thick deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Dark rich skeletal designs in silhouette at front and back endpapers. Frontispiece colour plate: "It Grew Louder -Louder - Louder! And Still the Man The Men Chatted Pleasantly, And Smiled". Deep black top-stain. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Profusely illustrated with the ethereal, spine-tingling imagery of Arthur Rackham. Includes a dozen beautifully designed colour plates with captioned guards, and seventeen smooth-coated, chiaroscuro-like full-page illustrations. Each rich in detail and depth. Additional partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration by Rackham throughout. Includes rare original wrap-around dust wrapper in red, black and shadowy charcoal hues, moderate edge wear, rub, chip; unclipped 21/-Net, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket depicts several dramatic, macabre ghouls and imagery at front panel, spine and wrapping to back with deathly skeletals. This design not found elsewhere in volume. Scarce near fine Rackham illustrated first edition in near very good wrapper from George G. Harrap. Tales of Mystery and Imagination matched Edgar Allan Poe's best tales of horror and suspense with the expressive artwork of the inimitable Arthur Rackham. Beautifully designed volume w/colour illustrations giving substance to the terrifying imagery in Poe's masterpieces of the macabre. Rackham's art perfectly captures the perversity, madness, and delight in horror that were the hallmarks of Poe's dark genius. Rackham noted that whilst working on these illustrations, that they "were so horrible I was beginning to frighten myself." The plates are indicative of a grandeur and vision one might not so far have perceived in Rackham. The tales in order include: The Imp of the Perverse; The Tell-Tale Heart; A Descent into the Maelstrom; The Cask of Amontillado; The Premature Burial; Hop-Frog; The Assignation; King Pest; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Masque of Red Death; The Man of the Crowd; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Oval Portrait; The Gold Bug; Ligeia; Eleonora; Berenice; Morella; Ms. Found In a Bottle; William Wilson; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; Metzengerstein; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; and, The Purloined Letter. Made in Great Britain. Text and black-and-white illustrations printed by Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol; colour plates by McLagan and Cumming, Edinburgh. 318 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Edgar Allan Poe (Rackham, Arthur). Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. George C. Harrap, 1935.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 460 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham books.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.