[10], 305 pages. Hardcover: H 23cm x L 15.25cm. Handsome bright red simulated leather boards; vibrant gilt and silver stamping to front board and spine with latter additionally decorated with three raised bands; rear board decorated with vibrant gilt stamped borders with touch of soiling and some rubbing near bottom edge. All edges gilt but with a few flecks to fore-edge. Red patterned endpapers. Pages are bright and clean. Binding is still crisp. A near fine copy. Collection of eighteen Edgar Allan Poe short stories divided among three sections: TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE ("King Pest," "MS. Found In A Bottle," "Silence-A Fable," "Berenice," "William Wilson," "Ligeia," "The Assignation," and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"); TALES OF HORROR AND SUSPENSE ("The Pit And The Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask of Amontillado," "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and "The Masque of the Red Death"); and TALES OF RATIOCINATION ("The Gold-Bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Purloined Letter").

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TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION. The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces - Franklin Mystery Series.

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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.

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Hardcover

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DAVID HALLINAN, BOOKSELLER - specializing in out-of-print, uncommon, and scarce books in all subjects. Mailing address is PO BOX 463, COLUMBUS, MS 39703. Inventory available for inspection at a local antique mall generally from 10am-5pm Tuesday thru Saturday.

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