Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination.; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
by Poe, Edgar Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Spine lightly sunned, just a hint of shelfwear, a few chips around the edges of the endpapers, but still a lovely copy, internal
- Seller
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Baldwin City, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: George C. Harrap and Co. Inc., 1935. Hardcover. Spine lightly sunned, just a hint of shelfwear, a few chips around the edges of the endpapers, but still a lovely copy, internally very good and fresh / nice cloth covered slipcase of a newer vintage. First Trade Edition, lg 8vo. Rebound in dark green morocco, top edge gilt, gilt titling and pictorially decorated front cover of a fierce raven, with mottled parchment like endpapers. 318pp., 17 full page line drawings, 11 smaller line drawings, 12 colour plates with descriptive tissue guards. Now housed in a professionally made cloth covered box for protection.
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- Bookseller
- J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 209892
- Title
- Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination.; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
- Author
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine lightly sunned, just a hint of shelfwear, a few chips around the edges of the endpapers, but still a lovely copy, internal
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George C. Harrap and Co. Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
Terms of Sale
J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
Payment with order, credit cards accepted (VISA, MC, Discover), personal checks on USA banks, money orders in US funds. Libraries and educational institutions will be invoiced upon request. Returns accepted within 30 days. Unless the book is clearly not as described, refund is for the price of the book only.
About the Seller
J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Baldwin City, Kansas
About J. Hood, Booksellers, inc.
J. Hood, Booksellers, established 1974, specializes in scholarly books in all subject areas, with large holdings in the sciences, art, philosophy, medieval & renaissance studies, the social sciences and the humanities. We currently have 48,000 volumes in stock and sell exclusively on the internet. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Owners: Gloria & John Hood
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- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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