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Poe, Edgar Allan. TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE. PHILADELPHIA: LEA AND BLANCHARD, 1840 12mo (195 x 115mm.), 2 volumes, first edition of the author's first collection of stories, one of 750 sets, publisher's 4-page advertisement for the Tales bound at the beginning of volume 2, publisher's purple muslin cloth, printed paper labels on spines, full red buckram folding-case, gilt-lettered, 2 matching chemises, occasional light foxing, some very light dampstaining in upper margins of second half of text block in vol. 2, spines of both volumes and 12mm. strip at upper edge of lower cover of vol. 2 faded, some rubbing to spine labels, label of vol. 2 dampstained