edgar allan poe the complete works collection

A very handsome set, looks 100 years younger than it actually is.

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Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. liii + 306), and with some cracking to initial paste-down to gutter else easily Near Fine of condition 2) Tales (frontis matter + 349 pp.) 3) Tales (v + 349 pp.) 4) Tales (v, 1-333 pp.) 5) Tales (v, 1-341 pp.) 6) Tales (v, 1-345 pp.), with a bit of cracking to front paste-down 7) Criticisms (v, 1-370 pp.) 8) (vi, 1-387 pp.) 9) Criticisms (v, 1-389 pp.) 10) Miscellany (v, 1-350 pp.). The set comprises ten (10) volumes, as follows: 1) Poems Essays on the Poet's Art (pp. Handsome bookplate of Alfred Thomas Carton affixed neatly inside each front flap, he having been a prominent Chicago-area attorney who passed away at age 83 in 1968 and a Lieutenant in the U.S. Pages of Limitation are numbered, this being a matched set of #473 of 1050 printed, and with apparent facsimile signatures of the publisher thereat. Frontises feature fine photogravure illustrations and with additional plates, initials, heads and tails and captioned tissue guards, all illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. All top edges gilt, an ornate gilt-stamped likeness of a raven at front covers, hand-sewn signatures, sewn-in head-bands.

Uber-sturdy, bland of paper label titling to spines, some spines very lightly splotched, else bound handsomely with a tan buckram cloth fit for library use but not ex-library, some sunning to edges and evenly browned at spines, paper labels intact and most not terribly abraded, but rubbed of lettering. Edited and chronologically arranged on the basis of the standard text with certain additional material and with a Critical Introduction by Charles F. As sturdy a complete set of any edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe as I've handled. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.Ĭondition: Very Good. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. Sheets age toned, light foxing to frontispiece and title, tissue guard foxed. Very attractive very good bright pictorial cloth, back faded and slightly browned and head caps worn. Gilt, red-brown, and black printed flower decoration on pale green faintly printed all-over floral decoration publisher's cloth by Belford Clarke, pages ruled in red, all edges gilt. i-iv, (v), 6-260, engraved frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. In Bedford Clarke Publishers decorative cloth binding.

Edgar allan poe the complete works collection