Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
by POE, Edgar Allan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. A deluxe Franklin Library reprint edition presenting some of the best of Edgar Allan Poe's macabre stories. The stories were originally published in various magazines or journals, then in Poe's story collections: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque," "Tales of Horror and Suspense," and "Tales of Ratiocination." Includes illustrations by Harry Clarke. --- In full grey leatherette with gilt decorations on covers & spine, raised spine bands and titling gilt-stamped on spine. All edges gilt, and with patterned paper endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A bright, tightly-bound, clean copy lacking obvious damages.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 304 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87249
- Title
- Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
- Author
- POE, Edgar Allan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1979
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Littleton, Colorado
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