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Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by Gary Kelley.

Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies, this copy No.461. Signed by both Evangeline Gallagher and Joe Hill. 4to, xvii + pp386 with evocative illustrations by Evangeline Gallagher throughout plus a separate letterpress booklet of 'The Raven' pp25. Hardcover in slipcase. Front opening slipcase of rib cage with magnetic strip for easy closure, in fine/new condition. Beautifully bound in quarter black goatskin over decorated boards in fine/new condition. Inside all pages and illustrations in fine/new condition. This limited edition commemorates the death of Poe and celebrates a legacy that has infused so much of our literary world. From swinging pendulums, beating hearts and malevolent cats to the first true detective stories (featuring C. Auguste Dupin), Poe's works of the macabre continue to inspire and influence writers. A superb copy still in original wrappings and box. This Limited Edition sold out within 24 hours.

One of 460 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's full vellum decorated in gilt. With twelve color plates, each with a captioned tissue guard, and seventeen black-and-white illustrations by Rackham. A bit of toning to vellum. Late-twentieth-century auction record clippings pasted to upper flyleaf. Ink ownership inscription, dated 1941, and corresponding bookplate to preliminary blank. In the publisher's slipcase, a bit soiled with edges reinforced with tape. A Fine copy in the Good slipcase. A series of poems and illustrations, the book visually intensifies the macabre aspects of Poe's work and makes it accessible to a wide readership. Included in this selection are Poe's famous Purloined Letter, The Mystery of Marie Roget, Annabel Lee, and The Raven. "According to Rackham, the illustrations he provided for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, in 1935, frightened even him, and whilst this might only be expected when a fine illustrator meets a fine and frightening textThe best plates areindicative of a grandeur and vision one might not so far have perceived in RackhamPerhaps not a book or set of illustrations for a night's reading in bed, alone" (Gettings 163-164). Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classicfrom Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell, 72. Riall, 180. Fine.

First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 460 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham books.