POE, Edgar Allan.
Rare books by Edgar Allan Poe, including first editions of works such as Tales of Mystery and Imagination, and manuscripts and letters.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be a master of the macabre and one of the early practitioners of the short story. He is best known for his tales of mystery and the supernatural, as well as his poetry. Poe's writing had a profound influence on the development of the detective fiction, science fiction, and horror genres. He was also one of the first American writers to become a literary critic, and his reviews and essays were highly influential in shaping the literary tastes of his time. Poe's writing style, characterized by its intensity and emotional power, has had a lasting influence on literature and continues to be widely read and studied today.
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POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.Philadelphia : 1840 [1839]
First edition. Poe's influential first collection of tales gathers all 25 stories he had produced to date. They include two of his best-known stories, "Fall of the House of Usher" and "MS. Found in a Bottle", along with the first known appearance in print of "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling".
The popularity of the...Learn More![Histoires Extraordinaires; [together with] -- Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires; [and] -- Aventures D'Arthur Gordon Pym.](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2fd3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net%2fmedia%2fcatalog%2fproduct%2fcache%2feddd32ef720e909fecec8d69051e6d0d%2f1%2f6%2f167942.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)
BAUDELAIRE, Charles (trans.); POE, Edgar Allan. Histoires Extraordinaires; [together with] -- Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires; [and] -- Aventures D'Arthur Gordon Pym.Paris : 1856-58
First editions. Baudelaire's famous prose translations of Poe began with these three works and were not continued for another seven years. Though Poe's national image was long a matter of controversy, in continental Europe his reputation was immediately established through the translations of Baudelaire, who "forever blended the style, form and...Learn More![Histoires extraordinaires; [and] Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires.](/image.pl?url=https%3a%2f%2fd3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net%2fmedia%2fcatalog%2fproduct%2fcache%2feddd32ef720e909fecec8d69051e6d0d%2f1%2f4%2f141759.jpg&f=jpg&w=240)
POE, Edgar Allan, & Charles Baudelaire (trans.) Histoires extraordinaires; [and] Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires.Paris : 1884
First editions thus, each number 66 of 100 copies on japon paper, of Poe's classic tales, extra-illustrated and with an original watercolour in both volumes by noted Swiss artist Evert van Muyden (1853-1922), who left Rome to study at Geneva's Beaux-Arts around 1884. Van Muyden is best known for his illustrations of plants and animals inspired by...Learn More
