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Stated at copyright: "First Published 1935 by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. 182 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1." Oversize 8" x 10" design. Black fine full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, light shelf wear, rub. Front board features stylized cover titles and artful dancing skeleton with raised dagger. Spine with sharp titles and gilded Rackham vignette. Gilt Harrap at heel with vignette of Pegasus raised on hind legs above "H." Thick deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Dark rich skeletal designs in silhouette at front and back endpapers. Frontispiece colour plate: "It Grew Louder -Louder - Louder! And Still the Man The Men Chatted Pleasantly, And Smiled". Deep black top-stain. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Profusely illustrated with the ethereal, spine-tingling imagery of Arthur Rackham. Includes a dozen beautifully designed colour plates with captioned guards, and seventeen smooth-coated, chiaroscuro-like full-page illustrations. Each rich in detail and depth. Additional partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration by Rackham throughout. Includes rare original wrap-around dust wrapper in red, black and shadowy charcoal hues, moderate edge wear, rub, chip; unclipped 21/-Net, protected in new clear sleeve. Jacket depicts several dramatic, macabre ghouls and imagery at front panel, spine and wrapping to back with deathly skeletals. This design not found elsewhere in volume. Scarce near fine Rackham illustrated first edition in near very good wrapper from George G. Harrap. Tales of Mystery and Imagination matched Edgar Allan Poe's best tales of horror and suspense with the expressive artwork of the inimitable Arthur Rackham. Beautifully designed volume w/colour illustrations giving substance to the terrifying imagery in Poe's masterpieces of the macabre. Rackham's art perfectly captures the perversity, madness, and delight in horror that were the hallmarks of Poe's dark genius. Rackham noted that whilst working on these illustrations, that they "were so horrible I was beginning to frighten myself." The plates are indicative of a grandeur and vision one might not so far have perceived in Rackham. The tales in order include: The Imp of the Perverse; The Tell-Tale Heart; A Descent into the Maelstrom; The Cask of Amontillado; The Premature Burial; Hop-Frog; The Assignation; King Pest; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Masque of Red Death; The Man of the Crowd; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Oval Portrait; The Gold Bug; Ligeia; Eleonora; Berenice; Morella; Ms. Found In a Bottle; William Wilson; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; Metzengerstein; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; and, The Purloined Letter. Made in Great Britain. Text and black-and-white illustrations printed by Western Printing Services, Ltd., Bristol; colour plates by McLagan and Cumming, Edinburgh. 318 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

First Illustrated Edition. 173 by 112 mm. xxiv, 256 pp. Condition: Rebacked, with modern red calf matching the older corner calf triangular pieces. Paper pastedown is scuffed and somewhat heavily worn besides. Leaves have occasional light foxing, and a moderate amount of wear, but overall are comparatively clean for this book.

Beautiful copy. DJ has minor tears but is original and still very nice as you can see. Near near fine condition overall. the book itself its just incredible and the boards and illustrations are bright, very bright, near new.

London: Henry Vizeltelly / Clarke, Beeton & Co. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Some scuffing to leather along spine and corners. Spine faded. Scattered light foxing and off-setting. Marbled edges. 1852. First Illustrated Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover on green cloth boards. (More images available on request). 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). viii, 256pp; 252pp. First series comprises twenty six engravings on wood; second series illustrated with sixteen wood-engravings. Wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page to each volume. The first illustrated edition of Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' bound together with the scarce 'Tales of Humour'. Published under the auspices Vizetelly as part of the short-lived Readable Books series. The first series was published in 1652, second series undated but presumed to be 1653. Volume 2 is bound without advertisement leaf at rear of volume 2. .

#151 of 170 copies signed and numbered by Harry Clarke. 4to full vellum, 24 full page black and white plates with tissue guards. This was before the color plates were added to later editionsthis is the only signed limited of all the editions. Quite scarce today. Gilt spine titles and small gilt illustration on the front cover, bordered by a design of chains & hearts all in gilt. Top edge gilt. The vellum is separating from boards at top of pastedown endpapers, very slightly in front, about 2 1/2 inches in rear. Modest bowing to boards and a little unevenness to the spine. Modest darkening to covers. Without previous ownership markings. No foxing, interior pages very clean. A solid copy of the scarcest of all Clarke titles and the most reprinted of them all, proving its popularity over the last 100 years. Signed by Clarke.

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.