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Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
by (CLARKE, HARRY:) POE, EDGAR ALLAN:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919 (1st thus). Hardback, approx 11 x 8 inches. In brown morocco full leather fine binding, with decorative gilt paneled front board, and gilt lettering to spine. Plain brown endpapers, top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Edges of boards quite heavily rubbed, small chips to corners. Leather on spine professionally replaced and relaid, with repairs and reinforcement to inner hinges (white cloth tape.) Two small neat previous owners inscriptions to blank prelim before halftitle page. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout, one or two very minor handling marks. A couple of areas of minor offsetting to one or two text pages, else pages and plates all very clean and tight. 383pp. Illustrations complete with 24 full-page B&W plates (including frontis.) And many small B&W tailpiece vignettes. The first edition of “Tales” to be illustrated by Harry Clarke.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87946
- Title
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.
- Author
- (CLARKE, HARRY:) POE, EDGAR ALLAN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919 (1st thus)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Tales of Mystery and Imagination, CLARKE, HARRY, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Illustrated, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919, 1st, leather, B&W plates, murder, mystery, The Pit And Pendulum, Masque Red Death, House of Usher, Ms. Found In a
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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