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Up For Sale Today is

The Fall of the House of Usher

by

Edgar Allan Poe

Illustrated by Alice Neel

Hardcover. 4to. The Limited Editions Club, New York. 1985. 32 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. Illustrated with two color lithographs and an etching by Alice Neel, with a tribute to Neel by Raphael Soyer. First Edition/First Printing. Number 1423 of 1500 limited edition copies. Signed by Alice Neel and Raphael Soyer.

Housed in a black clamshell box (slightly rubbed) with a morocco title label lettered in gilt affixed to the front panel..  Bound in quarter maroon Nigerian goatskin over matching marble paper covered boards . Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid (you will notice that the text block has a yapped edge close to the spine; that's how they bound the book there are no missing pages). 

This example of  Poe's classic tale was printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper, designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The bound copies were bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel died shortly before the publication of this volume and the images are dark and exceptional and include her stunning skull "self-portrait". The printer brought blank pages to Neel to sign and she signed approximately 400 of them before she passed away. 
 

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Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height)  
inches cm  
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quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
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