POE'S TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

London: George G. Harrap and Company.� 1935. First edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations. First edition with Arthur Rackham illustrations. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles and illustrations to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Black top edge. Endpapers illustrated with a skeleton design. Illustrated with 12 full page tissue guarded colour plates, 17 full page black and white line drawings and several header and tail piece illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm and the cloth fresh, the extremities very lightly rubbed. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. The closed text block edge with a few faint spots whech very occasionally show on the internal margins. Complete with the very good or better rubbed, nicked, creased and spine-toned dustwrapper which has a couple of marks and a few closed tears to the spine. Not price-clipped (21/- to the front flap). A superb example of the exquisitely illustrated first Arthur Rackham edition of Poe's Tales. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.