Tales Of Mystery And Imagination . Poe, Edgar Allan Horror,Mystery & Crime,Supernatural

Large octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-381 [382] [383: tailpiece] [384: blank], 32 inserted plates with 24 full-page black and white illustrations and eight full-page color illustrations by Harry Clarke, other smaller black and white Clarke illustrations in the text, publisher's decorated black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, pictorial paper inlay on front panel, top edge gilt, bottom edge untrimmed. First printing of this edition. This book was first published in 1919 with 24 full-page plates reproducing black and white illustrations by Clarke. This 1923 printing is the first to include the additional eight plates with color reproductions of paintings by Clarke. The classic illustrated edition of Poe's short fiction and the most memorable of Clarke's illustrated books. "As with Dore, a fellow master of haunted black-and-white art for books, overwork taxed and prematurely killed Clarke. His art is prized by collectors. He brought beauty to the Gothic, conveying the Romantic sense of wonder so necessary to lift horror above the merely grotesque to eerie heights." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 81. Reginald 11712. Several scratches and tears in cloth on rear cover, mild wear to cloth at spine ends and corners, front cover bowed at fore-edge, free endpapers lightly tanned, paste-downs a bit foxed, a good sound copy with fine interior. (#173914)