POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. 2 volumes, 8vo, original purple muslin, printed paper spines labels, covers stained and worn, labels rubbed with loss of a few words, recased, new endpapers in volume 2, blue half morocco case. FIRST EDITION, one of 750 copies; in volume 2 page 213 is correctly numbered (but the "2" is out of alingment) and on page 219 the"i" in "ing," line 13 up, and the hyphen at the end of line 6 up are both below the line; with 4 pages of advertisements containing "Opinions" of this work at the front of volume 2. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, pp. 49-54. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque contains the twenty-five stories which Poe had written up to 1840, including two of his most enduring: "Ms. Found in a Bottle" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." (2)
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. 2 volumes, 8vo, original purple muslin, printed paper spines labels, covers stained and worn, labels rubbed with loss of a few words, recased, new endpapers in volume 2, blue half morocco case. FIRST EDITION, one of 750 copies; in volume 2 page 213 is correctly numbered (but the "2" is out of alingment) and on page 219 the"i" in "ing," line 13 up, and the hyphen at the end of line 6 up are both below the line; with 4 pages of advertisements containing "Opinions" of this work at the front of volume 2. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, pp. 49-54. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque contains the twenty-five stories which Poe had written up to 1840, including two of his most enduring: "Ms. Found in a Bottle" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." (2)
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