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Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by Gary Kelley.

Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in black cloth with silver lettering and decoration. Printed at the Garamond Press. Preface by Vincent Starrett. Copy #323 of 1500 illustrated with sixteen aquatints by William Sharp and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Rubbing to silver on spine, as is often the case, but still readable. Foxing to endpapers. Still Very Good, lacking the slipcase

Small octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine lettering and embossed illustration on front cover, illustrated free endpapers, xv, 518 pp. Localised tear at spine tail, signed 'John Monash 1914', localised insect bites visible at bottom left corner of front endpaper, some foxing on preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy. 'John Monash 1914' dated signature on decorated front endpaper. Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a compilation of writings published posthumously. In 1908, Irish poet and novelist, Padraic Colum (1881-1972), selected forty-five tales from Poe's collection to form a new version of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. A first posthumous collection of Poe's work was compiled and published in 1850. It was only in 1902 that the title Tales of Mystery and Imagination was used for the first time in England by The World's Classics. Poe's command of language and technique, his imagination, and his use of horror and mystery enabled him to become an influential figure in the American literary world and abroad. He played a significant role in the readers' growing interest in Gothic fiction which had sprung from the Romanticism movement of the late eighteenth-century with English authors such as Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and established short stories as a serious literary form. Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination is composed of stories of revenge and murders like 'The Cask of Amontillado', haunted house tales like the well-known 'The Fall of the House of Usher', and one of the first detective stories in fiction 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. This copy of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination belonged to Sir John Monash (27 June 1865- 8 October 1931) - Commander of the Australian Corps during World War One and civil engineer - as indicated by the signature on the front endpaper. Sir John Monash was commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade during the Gallipoli campaign. In July 1916, he was promoted Major General and commanded the Australian 3rd Division around Ploegsteert. Being of Prussian-Jewish descent, his rise within the army wasn't without contention but, in 1918, he obtained the rank of Lieutenant General and commanded the Australian Corps. After World War One, Monash accepted the appointment as Director-General of Repatriation and Demobilisation and carried out the repatriation of Australian troops from Europe.